She heard this
standard expression of a strong soul wrung with a critical coldness that
astonished herself. They negotiated several steps, and then the stair turned a corner. “I suppose some one makes a bit on the food,” she said. Doesn’t matter a bit to me. ’
Tears sprang to Melusine’s own eyes, and she clasped the hand she held more
tightly. ’
‘Yes, but how are you going to find her?’
‘I will ask—’
She broke off. They had not so far been of
much personal interest to Gerald, but tonight was different. The grim mockery of it!—those South Sea loafers, taking
advantage of Enschede's Christianity and imposing upon him, accepting his
money and medicines and laughing behind his back! No doubt they made the
name a byword and a subject for ribald jest in the waterfront bars. I will go
with you. You cannot
refuse me this. ’
Melusine hardly dared believe she had heard him aright. About many of these houses hung a mysterious taint as of something weakly
and commonly and dustily evil; the women who negotiated the rooms looked out
through a friendly manner as though it was a mask, with hard, defiant eyes.
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