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" "As many as you please," replied Wood, walking towards the chimney-piece, and taking down a constable's, staff, which hung upon a nail. A single false step might have precipitated him into the street; or, if he had trodden upon an unsound part of the roof, he must have fallen through it. " The detective ruefully inspected the scarlet band on his perfecto. ‘The fact of it is,’ I said, ‘I’m the new playwright, Thomas More. Chapter VIII “WHITE’S” Northwards, away from the inhospitality of West Kensington, rumbled the ancient four-wheel cab, laden with luggage and drawn by a wheezy old horse rapidly approaching its last days. Melusine—the real Melusine—evidently did not see him immediately, for her attention was on her descent from the high vehicle. You belong to me, and I have waited long enough. She leaned forward and addressed him. ‘I’ve eyes in my head, haven’t I?’ He grunted. But of what use to wear it when there was no one of importance to see and admire? ‘For shame, Melusine,’ protested Lucy, as the butler bowed himself out of the room. But while there's life there's hope. Madame Valade was that kind of woman. A few words passed between him and the thief-taker as the latter came up; after which, all the party—with the exception of Quilt, who was left on shore —embarked within the wherry, which was pushed from the strand and rowed swiftly along the stream—for the tide was in its favour—by a couple of watermen. ‘I trust you are cursing Valade, and not Melusine. His salary was a few paltry hundreds a year.
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