One realized indeed then
where the differences lay; the tender curves about Anna’s mouth transformed
into hard sharp lines in Annabel’s, the eyes of one, truthful and frank, the other’s
more beautiful but with less expression—windows lit with dazzling light, but
through which one saw—nothing. “Where have you been? All these hours I have
been calling for you. "She travelled alone;
and she is the purest woman God ever permitted to inhabit the earth. She flared her upper lip,
baring her canines which had extended by half an inch. The sun shined weakly through brief pinpricks
90
in the thick cloud cover, the weather was brewing a
storm. ‘That is, if she’s gone that way. "
"That is your fault, none of mine. "Bring the light, Nab. But threats and entreaties—even promises were ineffectual; and
the unlucky captive, after exhausting his powers of persuasion, was compelled to
give up the point. Anna did not pause, but she looked over her shoulder with slightly lifted
eyebrows. By and by—as the paroxysm subsided and he became motionless—she stole
back to the bungalow to wait. But I’m always trying to make
things happen. I’ve made
an ally of her champion. To her mind, recalling the
picture of him the night before, there had been something tragic in the grim
silent manner of his tippling. She was the High Priestess.
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