“Silence!” he cried. “Do you want to alarm the house?”
“Oh no, no!” she panted; “but you frighten—you horrify me!”
“Hush! Be silent!”
“No, no!” cried Gertrude, struggling, as he again seized her in his arms. “Oh, help—help—help!”
Volume Three—Chapter Two.
Police Business.
Dick Millet became quite the military officer as he reached the police-station with his father, and proved that, if he possessed a very small body, it contained plenty of soul. He was staggered at the charge brought against his brother-in-law, that of being a party to a serious attempt at burglary on the previous night, and soon found that there was nothing to be done till the next day. He listened to Huish’s asseverations of innocence very quietly, but said nothing till he exclaimed:
“Why, Dick, you cannot believe me guilty of this monstrous charge!”