"I'll be back in a minute. Tell
him about the island, the coconut dance, the wooden tom-toms; read to him. “Oh, damn!” he said. And such skirts as Ann Veronica had had
when she entered the valley of Saas were safely packed away in the hotel, and
she wore a leather belt and loose knickerbockers and puttees—a costume that
suited the fine, long lines of her limbs far better than any feminine walking-dress
could do. He knew my name, and also that I
had been living in Paris, and a man doesn’t risk claiming a girl for his wife, as a
rule, for nothing. He did not notice that Ann Veronica was preoccupied
and heavy-eyed. Why hadn't he admitted that he recognized the
photograph? What instinct had impelled him swiftly to assume his Oriental
mask?
"Why?" asked O'Higgins. "
"Don't go near him, dear Thames," said Winifred; "he may have some ill
intention. “What a gloomy person you are!” she murmured. "Vell, vell," growled Sharples, after he had listened to the other's remonstrances,
"it shall be done. "
"Then, we'll lose no more time," returned Jack. Lord, what a state I was in! Night after night I sat
there, I watched her come in, I watched her go. "And yet—but it is only part of the chain of ill-luck that
seems wound around me.
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