Escape was now impossible. "To be plain, then," said Winifred, "he has asked me whether I have any objection to you as a mother. " "My writing! no such thing!" ejaculated the lady, casting a look of alarm at the woollen-draper. The features were indistinct, but was that not a halo of white about it? And the dark shadow below, was that a cloak, or the habit of a nun? Skirting the dancing, from which he had taken a breather—not from lack of energy, but to escape the inanities of the young ladies he had partnered—Gerald made his way to a side door in the saloon and opened it. There sprang from that a vague hope that perhaps she might extort a capitulation from her father by a threat to seek that position, and then with overwhelming clearness it came to her that whatever happened she would never be able to tell her father about her debt. Many other expedients occurred to her; but after making several ineffectual attempts to get into the Mint unobserved, they were all abandoned. Submission to the inevitable carried her through the circumstances of her appearance before the magistrate. O'Higgins, the American detective, and were waiting against the hour when they could assist the young man in a sudden dash for liberty.
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