[Madame Flirt by Charles E. Pearce]@TWC D-Link bookMadame Flirt CHAPTER V 7/25
She threw open the window and looked down upon the swaying crowd. "What do you want ?" she called out. "The man you're hiding," was the reply in a hoarse voice. "You lie.
There's no man here." "No man where Mistress Sally Salisbury is? Ho-ho!" She knew the voice.
It was that of Captain Jeremy Rofflash. Seizing a lamp Sally Salisbury ran down the stairs and opened the door. Holding the lamp high over her head the light fell with striking effect upon her luxuriant yellow hair clustering down upon a neck and shoulders that Juno might have envied.
The resemblance did not stop here.
Juno in anger could have found her double in Sally Salisbury at that moment. Evidently the visitor was unwelcome. "What does this silly masquerade mean ?" she demanded, her eyes roaming over the coachman's livery in high displeasure.
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