" "How?" exclaimed the other. “Forgive me,” he said, “but I want to hear it from your sister. I have tried not to tell you—tried to be simply your friend. ‘Pardon, mademoiselle, but perhaps your father went to England, after all, and —’ ‘My father went to Italy,’ interrupted Melusine, her heart tightening with the familiar sensation of loss. She found an old drunk wandering the streets. Do not avoid me if we meet by accident, but I trust to you all not to let the accident happen if you can help it. Why should he stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his head? CHAPTER III He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without her asking! The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. I never hunt the human tiger without being armed.
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