There were moments when Ann Veronica
rather more than suspected the chief speakers to be, as school-boys say, showing
off at her. And then all her restlessness was turned to joy. "Damnation!" exclaimed one of the leaders of the party in a furious tone,
snatching a torch from an attendant, and throwing its light full upon the face of
the carpenter; "this is not the villain, Sir Cecil. “The Widgetts,” she said. "A good idea!" exclaimed the carpenter. “After all,” he said, “I am not sure that you are not a very material person. Little things, almost impalpable, had happened to justify that
doubt; something in his manner had belied his words. But for the next few days he avoided Cheveney like the plague. Besides
——”
She stopped short. There was a trader—a man who
bought copra and pearls. "
Something reached down into his heart and twisted it. At length, about an hour before dawn on the second day—Sunday—having spent
the early part of the night in watching at the gates of the robbers' sanctuary, and
being almost exhausted from want of rest, she set out homewards. I
shall not let you go till I am quite sure. "
"There was a yacht in the river?"
"I have nothing to say. ’
‘I thank you,’ Gerald said drily.
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