’ ‘But why?’ asked Melusine, astonished, and somewhat overwhelmed by the other girl’s volubility. These sweeping dignities were not within the compass of her will; she remembered she liked Ramage, and owed things to him, and she was interested—she was profoundly interested. ‘Forgive my not rising to greet you,’ she said, holding out a claw-like hand. Day after day—five, to be exact—she had returned to Morgan's; and each time the man would understand what had drawn her, and with a kindly smile would sit down at the piano and play. Earles himself stood upon the threshold of his sanctum, the prototype of the smart natty Jew, with black hair, waxed moustache, and a wired flower in his button-hole. Hartford, Connecticut; she had registered that address; but there was something so mystifyingly Oriental about her that the address only thickened the haze behind which she moved. Ought she to walk into some of these places and tell them what she could do? She hesitated at the window of a shipping-office in Cockspur Street and at the Army and Navy Stores, but decided that perhaps there would be some special and customary hour, and that it would be better for her to find this out before she made her attempt. ‘Give me that!’ He took his finger away from her neck and made a grab at the handkerchief. From time to time the man below would shout, and the boy would let the threads go with the snap of a harpist, only to recover them instantly. His baggy shorts sagged over knobby knees that tapered into decrepit Reebok sneakers. Spurlock stepped into the room. All about her, hither and yon, lay the enticing Unknown. But perhaps I had better get a room in an hotel to-night and look round. William Kneebone was a woollen-draper of "credit and renown," whose place of business was held at the sign of the Angel (for, in those days, every shop had its sign), opposite Saint Clement's church in the Strand.
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