CHAPTER SIXRobina closed her eyes and clamped her lips shut.
“Please, Ellis, don’t!” she shouted, twisting her face away.
But Ellis only laughed – a low horrible laugh full of menace.
Suddenly from behind her came a full-blooded yell.
“Ellis! What on earth are you doing? Let go of her at once!”
“Robert!” cried out Robina, too terrified to consider that she had addressed him in a rather familiar fashion.
Pushing her away with a dismissive gesture, Ellis now let out a cruel laugh. She had heard that sound before when, as a child, he had pulled the legs off insects.
Robina fell to the ground and cut her hand on some fragments of glass from the smashed oil lamp.
“Now, get out of here,” bawled the Earl to Ellis, in a cold voice that chilled Robina’s blood. “I will deal with you later!”
