"
He interrupted her with a short laugh uglier than the gleam in
his eyes. He was a trifle excited.
"And all the women running about screaming and trying to hide and
being pulled out. We can take any of their pretty, little, high
nosed women we choose--any of them."
"Yes," she answered, biting her lip. No one would take her, she
knew.
He put on his overcoat and prepared to leave her. As he stood at
the door before opening it, he spoke in his usual tone of mere
command.
"Take her to Kensington Gardens tomorrow afternoon," he said. "Sit
in one of the seats near the Round Pond and watch the children
sailing their boats. I shall not be there but you will find
yourself near a quiet, elegant woman in mourning who will speak
to you. You are to appear to recognize her as an old acquaintance.
Follow her suggestions in everything."
After this he was gone and she sat down to think it over.
CHAPTER XXI
She saw him again during the following week and was obliged to
tell him that she had not been able to take her charge to Kensington
Gardens on the morning that he had appointed but that, as the girl
was fond of the place and took pleasure in watching the children
sailing their boats on the Round Pond, it would be easy to lead
her there. He showed her a photograph of the woman she would find
sitting on a particular bench, and he required she should look
at it long enough to commit the face to memory.
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