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THE TEMPTING OF TAVERNAKE BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER I
DESPAIR AND INTEREST
They stood upon the roof of a London boarding-house in the
neighborhood of Russell Square--one of those grim shelters, the
refuge of Transatlantic curiosity and British penury. The girl
--she represented the former race was leaning against the frail
palisading, with gloomy expression and eyes set as though in
fixed contemplation of the uninspiring panorama. The young man
--unmistakably, uncompromisingly English--stood with his back to
the chimney a few feet away, watching his companion. The silence
between them was as yet unbroken, had lasted, indeed, since she
had stolen away from the shabby drawingroom below, where a florid
lady with a raucous voice had been shouting a music-hall ditty.
Close upon her heels, but without speech of any sort, he had
followed. They were almost strangers, except for the occasional
word or two of greeting which the etiquette of the establishment
demanded. Yet she had accepted his espionage without any protest
of word or look. He had followed her with a very definite
object. Had she surmised it, he wondered? She had not turned
her head or vouchsafed even a single question or remark to him
since he had pushed his way through the trap-door almost at her
heels and stepped out on to the leads.
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