11/38 I will help you afterwards, if you will let me know your plans. I am sure that would have been your late master's wish." "I want nothing from _him_," Thalassa rejoined, "a damned black scoundrel." Mr.Brimsdown was shocked at this savage outburst, but there was something so implacable in the old man's air that the rebuke he wished to utter died unspoken. Thalassa regarded him for a moment in silence, and then went on-- "Thank'ee for letting me stop on here a bit. Now I'll tell you something--about him." Again his thumb indicated the next room. "It was the night after." "Do you mean the night after he met his death ?" "Yes. |