CHAPTER XXIII

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And through it, in trailing velvet, came a lady _Frontispiece_

There was a good deal of whispered talk and mystery 15

‘You sit next him, Charles’ 19

‘They burned her for a witch’ 31

‘How beautifully everything grows here’ 43

Of course they all liked to try 55

A hand was raised 65

‘Just remember we’re yours to the death’ 81

‘_I_ believed you—without that,’ said Charlotte 93

They were the footprints, beyond any doubt, of a boy 111

‘Fetches him a bite of something’ 127

‘If I whistle, you lay low’ 141

Showed her a green parrot sitting on a nest 155

He screwed up his nose 165

‘It’s a Nihilist bomb, come away!’ 187

Rupert rolled into bed 205

He looked over his head as though Rupert had not been there 229

‘I can’t attend to you. Go away!’ 237

Found the broken paling and slipped through 261

Rupert was bundled into the body of the car 277

Something four-footed, spotted, furry, creeping along the passage 299

‘It’s me; it’s Rupert,’ he shouted 313

Charles had his first swimming lesson 321

Nothing much happened except smoke 349

Charlotte found a thin black-coated shoulder a very good place to cry on 365

‘Take your last look,’ he said 379