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I was not so sure then as I am now." "Sure of what?" demanded the other. "To begin with," said Ashe, "I'm sure our friend the poet followed Vane into the wood that night, for I saw him coming out again." Paynter leaned forward, suddenly pale with excitement, and struck the wooden table so that it rattled. "Mr. Ashe, you're wrong," he cried. "You're a wonderful man and you're wrong.
Ours not to reason why; ours but to elude Baxter and gather it in." "Ours, indeed! You speak as though we were partners instead of rivals." Ashe uttered an exclamation. "You've hit it! Why not? Why any cutthroat competition? Why shouldn't we form a company? It would solve everything." Joan looked thoughtful. "You mean divide the reward?" "Exactly into two equal parts." "And the labor?"
"On the contrary, look after your guests," said the Premier, dryly, and, beckoning to the Liberal peer who had been his chairman, he engaged him in conversation, and the two presently vanished through a window open to the terrace. Kitty had been joined meanwhile by Eddie Helston, and the two stood talking together, a flushed, excited pair. Ashe overtook them. "May I speak to you a moment, Kitty?"
"We can use the Redax, as I have said from the start." Ashe straightened, his mouth tight, his eyes hard and angry. "And I'll protest that ... to the council! Man, we're dealing with human beings selected volunteers, men who trust us not with laboratory animals!" Ruthven's thick lips pouted into what was close to a smile of derision. "Always the sentimentalists, you experts in the past!
But I can't stand eavesdropping here." He withdrew softly from the window and began to undress. But Lady Kitty was leaning out, and her voice carried amazingly. Heard in this way also, apart from form and face, it became a separate living thing. Ashe stood arrested, his watch that he was winding up in his hand.
Also he had made an impression on the contractor by his steadiness, to such an extent that the man offered him a hundred and twenty-five dollars a month to come back and take charge of a similar camp in the spring. But Thompson, like Tommy Ashe, had grown troubled with the wandering foot. The money in hand gave him security against want in strange places.
There was a sigh from the crewmen; Karara's gesture had been confident, as if she knew just what she was doing and why. And Ross heard Ashe draw a deep breath also as the Terran girl turned, allying herself with the Foanna. "These Great Ones stand in peace," she said. "It is their will that no harm comes to this ship and those who sail in her." "What do the Great Ones want of us?"
"What had we better do about this note?" Grace asked, picking it up from the table and re-reading it. "What do you think?" questioned Miriam. "I think we had better ask the advice of some upper class girl," said Grace. "I'm going to see Mabel Ashe to-morrow morning. I'll tell her about it. Elfreda mustn't be cheated out of her right to go to the reception."
"We did it; together we did it," Ashe said. "But where why ?" Those questions were not aimed at him, Ross knew. And at that moment the younger man did not care where they had been, what they had done. It was enough that his terrible loneliness was gone, that Ashe was here.
Asseverations apparently from mademoiselle, and a mention of eight o'clock, followed by remorse from Kitty. "Eight o'clock! And I keep you like this. I am a brute beast! Allez allez vite!" And quick steps scudded across the floor above, followed by the shutting of a door. Kitty, however, came back to the window, and Ashe could still hear her sighing and talking to herself.
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