You cannot. I will tell you soon, and I have much to tell you,' said Wilderspin, looking
uneasily round at my mother, who did not seem inclined to leave us. 'I will
tell you all about her when--when
you are sufficiently calm.' 'Tell
me now,' I said. 'Gad! this is a strange affair, don't you know? It would puzzle Cyril Aylwin himself,'
said Sleaford. ' What the dooce does it all mean?' 'Is she safe?' I cried to Wilderspin. There was a pause. 'Is she safe?' I cried again. 'Quite safe,' said Wilderspin, in a tone whose solemnity would have scared me had the speaker been any other person than this eccentric creature.
'When you are less agitated, I will tell you all about her.' 'No!
now, now!' IV 'Well, Mr. Aylwin,' said Wilderspin, 'when I first saw your father's book, _The Veiled Queen_, it was the vignette on the title-page that attracted me. In the eyes of that beautiful child-face, even as rendered by a small reproduction, there was the very e
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