The air was
sweet with the smoky perfume of myrrh, hazy and dense
with incense. ’
‘I dare say you do,’ said the general, grim satisfaction overtaking his anger as
his prophesy proved accurate. Miss Stanley hesitated, and took first one and then another of the constituents
of this costume off its peg and surveyed it. Fast and Loose
415
XXIII. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness.
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