Chapter VI.—Suspicions.NOW in order to understand how it was Larose had appeared so dramatically at the bungalow so soon after Mason had inflicted his savage caresses upon poor Jean Hilary, we must go back to the moment when she had escaped from the room after blinding him with the contents of the ink-stand.
She rushed up to her bedroom, wanting to sob out her heart from very shame at the indignity which had been inflicted upon her, and was only restrained from doing so by the fear that one of the servants might meet her going up the stairs and be a witness of her distress.
She met no one, however, and was soon, between sobs, fiercely laving over her face. She felt her lips would never be clean again and held them in the hottest water she could bear. Then she suddenly heard the sounds of
