The account of the discovery of Sir Rowland's murder filled Winifred with alarm; but when she learnt what had befallen Thames—how he had been stricken down by the thief-taker's bludgeon, and left for dead, she uttered a piercing scream, fainted, and would have fallen, if Jack had not caught her in his arms. ‘But how did she meet such a person in a convent?’ ‘He was wounded and came there for sanctuary,’ Gerald explained, adding almost through his teeth. ‘Couldn’t even trouble to make a pretence of motherhood. But he. Listen. She stole the opportunity to peer at his departing figure from the closed curtains of the front room window, his shoulders slumped forward, his posture and his ego slightly deflated. It’s so different from what one has been led to expect. But it is no longer necessary. I thought—the papers said——” “You thought that I was dead,” he interrupted. “Stay where you are for a moment,” she directed. All the party were greatly interested by Sheppard's history— especially Figg, who laughed loud and long at the escape from the Condemned Hold. “And now tell me, please, how you eloped from Morningside Park. " CHAPTER XI.
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