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CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
THE SAPPHIRE RING
Part 1
For a time that ring set with sapphires seemed to be, after all, the satisfactory
solution of Ann Veronica’s difficulties. ’
She moved quickly to the nearest bookcase, and listened intently to the sound
of Jack’s voice. She padded up the stairs to the bedroom, finding that
her sheets had been changed with a fresh pillow case to
welcome her weary head. ”
“Can’t we go down into Italy?”
“No,” he said; “it won’t run to that now. Oh! my dear, dear son, be warned in time. "Are you returning to Hong-Kong to-morrow by the day boat?"
For a moment Ruth was astonished at the sound of the spinster's voice. ’
‘Now that’s where you’re wrong. He then
mounted the jaded hack, which had long since regained its legs, and was quietly
browsing the grass at the road-side, and, striking spurs into its side, rode off. ToC
The ward into which Jack was endeavouring to break was called the Red Room,
from the circumstance of its walls having once been painted in that colour; all
traces of which had, however, long since disappeared. ”
“Then I didn’t waste my time in prison altogether?”
“It wasn’t the prison impressed me. "I rather fancy, as you Britishers say, that you know the nature of my visit?"
"I'm an American. "
Jack Sheppard again sought his pistol, and was only withheld from levelling it at
the thief-taker's head, by the hope that he might gather some further information
respecting his mother. At the
open door stood a young man in a rich garb with a mask on his face, who was
encouraging the mob by words and gestures.
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