“At last,” said I, “you are in my power!” And I bent upon her the piercing gaze of my eagle eye.
CHAPTER XXXIX
IN WHICH ARE SEALED ORDERS
SHE stood before me for just a moment undecided. The twilight was coming and the room was dim.
“Auntie will miss me,” said she, “after a time.”
“I have missed you all the time,” was my reply.
“But you sent for me?”
“Of course I did. Doesn’t this look as though I had?”