4466a1c3b2564afe86e0ecc194a10a0e by Max Gilbert
Author:Max Gilbert
Language: eng
Format: epub
147 27 Plant's Inn Whitty awakens in pain, for the bone of his cheek is mashed upon an unyielding surface: a familiar circumstance of late. He is beginning to view the act of waking as a cruel motif. Where the deuce is he now? Ah, yes. The rear snug at Plant's â dark but for a few dim embers in the fireplace. Though he cannot immediately bring to mind the circumstance of his arrival, it is clear that he has fallen asleep while drinking. Should that be the case, it is a depressing thing that he has not been awakened by whomever remained at table â or, if left on his own, assisted from the premises by the barman, placed in a cab with the address of his club, and sent on his way. Heartless, just to leave a man like this . . . Hello. Someone is seated at the end of the table. To judge by the shape and the dimensions of the shadow, it is not the Captain. Nor is it Inspector Salmon, nor a manâbasher of one kind or another. This is a different shape, that of a member of the fairer sex. It is Mrs Plant. Momentarily he is suffused with pleasure at the sight of her â and relief, that she is not gone from him for ever. On the other hand, she must now be faced. A discernible chill radiates from the figure opposite, distinguishable from the clammy coolness of the room itself. As his vision adjusts, he thinks he can make out her green eyes, which nearly glow in the dark. 'How do you do, madam?' he says, glad that he succeeded in trading in the Captain's cockâchafer for a different, if secondâhand, replacement. 'Well, don't you have a bluster on you, Mr Whitty. Gone for weeks and you march in like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, and there I was thinking you went over to the Mollies Club.' Whitty bridles at the mention of that notorious establishment for inverts, shut down during the last century after a scandal whose nature escapes him for the moment. What does she mean by it? 'The Mollies Club, madam?' 'Heard of it have you?' 'Indeed I have but . . .' 'Perhaps the Mollies Club is where they should have looked when your disappearance was the talk of London.' 148 PLANT'S INN 'I am at a loss as to your meaning, Mrs Plant. Yet I am very glad to see you at last, and delighted to see you looking so well . . .' His mouth continues to operate along these lines while his mind scurries about for scraps of information. Meanwhile, his eyes become distracted by her copper hair, some of which has turned ruby in the light of the coals as though lit by stained glass, while the skin of her forehead and neck glows in the way of the moon. He notes the colour of heat splashed upon her cheekbones, an
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