She
raided their settlements in shifts, staggering her kills from
tribe to tribe, undiscriminating of their petty politics. He tries hard to conceal it, but he cannot. The poor wretch, driven by
desperation to the commission of a crime which her soul abhors, is no more
beyond the hope of reformation than she is without the pale of mercy. Something
insisted that those two were mysteriously linked—that the woman knew the man
was there. ”
Ann Veronica started from her reverie, sat up in her chair, became attentive. She
was perhaps three-and-twenty, and very pink and healthy-looking, showing a
great deal of white and rounded neck above her business-like but altogether
feminine blouse, and a good deal of plump, gesticulating forearm out of her
short sleeve. ’
***
It must have been fate, Gerald decided, near an hour later, staring intently at the
closed French windows on the raised alcove that led out to the terrace. Before many minutes elapsed, he had picked a large hole in the plaster,
which showered down in a cloud of dust; and breaking off several laths, caught
hold of a beam, by which he held with one hand, until with the other he
succeeded, not without some difficulty, in forcing out one of the tiles. He kept at it even on those nights when the monsoon began to
break with heavy storms and he had to weight down with stones everything on
his table. Folding his arms, he placed his back against the door, and burst into a loud
laugh.
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