Outside the post-office stood a nohatted, blond young man in gray flannels, who was elaborately affixing a stamp to a letter. 266 She peered up at him. "I don't believe McClintock would have gone into convulsions at the sight of it. I must know what new thing has come between us that she should treat me as a lover one day and a monster the next. ’ ‘Of course I am, imbecile,’ she snapped, unconsciously echoing her greatniece. "Jack's a desperate fellow, and is always well armed; besides, he has a comrade with him. ’ Melusine’s heart leapt, raced for a moment, and suddenly dropped again. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. He had a narrow escape, however; for, passing within an inch of him, the bullet burried itself deeply in the wall. ‘She means thanks to you, General,’ Gerald translated automatically, forgetful of his old commander’s fiery temper. And so, the invasion really is to take place after all; and the Chevalier de Saint George is to land at the Tower with fifty thousand Frenchmen; and the Hanoverian usurper's to be beheaded; and Doctor Sacheverel's to be made a bishop, and we're all to be—eh?" "All in good time," returned Kneebone, putting his finger to his lips; "don't let your imagination run away with you, my charmer. She had in her suitcase a small scrapbook, only a few pages, what little information she had gathered on him through the years.
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