Chapter XXIII MONTAGUE HILL SEES LIGHT AT LAST At exactly ten minutes past ten Annabel rang the bell of her sister’s flat. The appearance of the new-comer was extremely prepossessing; and, after his trepidation had a little subsided, Wood began to regard him with some degree of interest. He dashed against the screen door before she could catch him and made the veranda. After all—’ ‘Yes, but I do not wish to see him,’ Melusine protested. On his way he made a slight divergence from the direct route and paused for a moment outside the flat where Anna was now living. ’ ‘Tchah! Better a doubtful welcome here than a confounded French convent. He flung Ruth aside, careless whether she fell or not. He looked like an animated skeleton that someone had hung a smelly 105 brown beard upon. She watched for five minutes until he completely disappeared over Pine Crest, past the yellow fire hydrant and the dented stop sign. It is just how things happen to be. A mosquito had been trapped inside and was perfectly preserved for thousands of years. Here he was preparing to leap over the hedge into the fields on the left, when he was intercepted by two horsemen, who, hearing the shouts, rode up and struck at him with the butt-ends of their heavy riding-whips.
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