21/24 That would be seeming to know too much." "You'll wait here ?" "Certainly, cousin--unless I see cause to move, you know." "And I shall find you on my return ?" "Me, or directions from me. There's never any harm in having a full pocket. I wonder what the devil does without a breeches-pocket ?" Rischenheim let that curious speculation alone, although he remembered the whimsical air with which Rupert delivered it. He was now on fire to be gone, his ill-balanced brain leaping from the depths of despondency to the certainty of brilliant success, and not heeding the gulf of danger that it surpassed in buoyant fancy. |