Love in Fetters - v. 1 Author:Richard Marsh Volume: v. 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: Cassell and Co., Ltd. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Boo... more »ks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VIII THE SAFE RETREAT The more Ronald thought, the less he liked his position. What sort of place was this, in which he was to all intents and purposes, in a prison ? What possible object could this woman, this Mme. de Constal, as she called herself, have in keeping him at her house -- that she should have resorted to such means to get him there ? Of course she had robbed him; he could not be quite certain, but thinking the matter carefully out left him with a strong impression that he must have had rather over than under thirty thousand francs when Inspector Jenner had arrested him that afternoon. He had won at the tables; how much, exactly, he could not say; he would not wonder if in one way and another he had had in his possession the equivalent of nearly two thousand pounds in English money. Then he had some very valuable trinkets; for one black pearl scarfpin alone he had given a hundred and fifty pounds. Inspector Jenner had had money. The French notes in the letter-case might have been the inspector's -- he was not sure. In that case the inspector might have had possibly a further two hundred pounds. Since this woman had kept everything, including even hiswatch and chain, she must, from that point of view alone, have made an excellent haul. How he was going to get any of his property back from her he was unable to see. He had no doubt that if put to the question she would refuse point-blank to let him have even a pocket-handkerchief which was his own. And how was he to make her? It was easy enough to say that she was a woman, and h...« less