[A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link book
A Perilous Secret

CHAPTER XVIII
6/14

Now I suppose you expect me to be a good pal to you again, all the same ?" "Why not ?" said Burnley.

"He is poison to you as well as to me.

He gave you twelve years' penal; you told me so at Portland; let's be revenged on him." "What else do you think I am here for, you fool?
But empty revenge, that's child's play.

The question is, can you do what you are told ?" "Ay, if I see a chance of revenge.

Why, I always did what you told me." "Very well, then; there's nothing ripe yet." "Yer don't mean I am to wait a year for my revenge." "You will have to wait an opportunity.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books