A spasm seemed to shoot through Cora Dean as she said to herself: “Too late!”
Volume Two—Chapter Twenty Five.
Mellersh is Convinced.
“Well, Dick,” said Mellersh, as he sought Linnell out, after a stroll round the rooms in search of Cora Dean, “how long are you going to keep yourself on the gridiron?”
“I don’t understand you.”
“Then I shall not try to explain.”
“Have you seen anything?”
“N-no.”