Read "Angel" by B.M. Croker online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
"BUT you cannot study the Rajah's pictures any longer," continued Colonel Gascoigne, in a rough and dominant tone, and as he spoke he struck a match, and confronted, as he anticipated, Alan Lindsay-Mr. Lindsay, white as a ghost, and evidently shattered by some great mental storm.
"Shall we go home?" he suggested politely, as he struck another match, and lighted the way to the head of the stairs, the two picture-seers following him down in somewhat awed silence.