They sat down in a covered pavilion that housed a grimy picnic table and a dingy fire pit. The necessity which had previously existed of leaving the ghastly evidence of the murderous deed undisturbed,—the presence of the mangled corpse,—the bustle of the inquest, at which her attendance was required,—all these circumstances produced a harrowing effect upon the young girl's imagination. ’ ‘Only in hot blood, eh?’ grinned Gerald. The nun on the threshold was of middle age and heavily built, her back uneven from toil and her hands roughened. ’ Ignoring this, the major slipped his hands about her waist and lifted her to her feet. His hair is oddly streaked with gray —I might say a dishonourable gray. CHAPTER XXVII. She had been forced to buy herself that pair of boots and a walking-skirt, and the pearl necklace at the pawnbrokers’ had yielded very disappointingly. ’ Gerald gazed at her without expression. She meditated long and carefully upon her letter to her father before she wrote it, and gravely and deliberately again before she despatched it.
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