. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. At the threshold of the study he bade her good-night; but he did not touch her forehead with his lips. ‘When you’re my age, you’ll be just as hardheaded. ’ ‘But it is a very good English name,’ she protested. Sheppard found it; and, as no one opposed her, she at once took up her abode there; nor was she long in discovering that the dreaded sounds proceeded from the nocturnal gambols of a legion of rats. The silence of Canton at night was sinister, for none could prophesy what form of mob might suddenly boil out. But no one could explain the disappearance of Michelle’s parents, nor could the police find a fingerprint or even a clothing fiber to trace what had happened to them. As she danced there was in her ears the faded echo of wooden tom-toms. Wood rest till he brought the villains to justice. “I came to London,” said Ann Veronica, “rather because of my own difficulty. 1. She resolved to walk across the Park to the Zoological gardens, and so on by way of Primrose Hill to Hampstead Heath.
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