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"How do we know that Gungadhura hasn't killed your husband, or shut him up somewhere?" Yasmini answered, and Tess had an attack of cold chills that rendered her speechless for a moment. She threw it off with a prodigious effort. "But I've no weapon of any kind, and you can't kill Gungadhura, three eunuchs and the guard as well!" she argued presently.
She then lifted her voice and called for her husband to come forth. As there was no response, she looked into the crib, and there she found Elnathan curled up, pretending to be fast asleep. "Deacon Hewett," she said, "you've posed as an example to the community. Now don't snore! I know you're awake! You can't fool me? So you will continue to snore, will ye?"
In spite of the pain in his shoulder Vincent dozed off occasionally, but he was heartily glad when he saw the first gleam of light in the sky. He woke Dan. "Dan, do you take the kettle down to the river and fill it. We had better have some breakfast before we make our start. If you can't find your way back, whistle and I will answer you." Dan, however, had no occasion to give the signal.
A little way out of town they turned the machine around and ran back for about half a mile; then they turned about a second time. I don't know why they did this. They threw the body out while the machine was moving rapidly; but I was so frightened that I can't say whether it was before or after they turned about the second time.
"I must see it," Elizabeth insisted. "Do please let us go up there. I meant to ask you to show it me." "You are not thinking of moving, are you, Miss Grimes?" Philip enquired. She snatched at the key, but he had just possessed himself of it and was swinging it from his forefinger. "I don't know," she snapped. "I was going up there, anyway. You can't have the key to-day." "Why not?"
"There are gaps in it, of course," went on Foyle. "As a matter of evidence, though, practically all we want is to identify the finger-prints. They of themselves would determine the investigation. But we can't tell whether they are Grell's or not until we get hold of him.
"Machine-gun caught me in both legs." "Going to lose 'em?" "Don't know. Can't feel much at present. Hope not." Then the questioner raises himself on his elbow. "How's it going?" It is the attack. The conversation that follows is always how we're hanging on to such and such an objective and have pushed forward three hundred yards here or have been bent back there.
I said that because I felt as I have never in my life felt before. As I did not know I could feel. I can't account for it, but I ask you to believe me." "I can account for it," she answered presently, with a strange gentleness. "It is because you met me at a critical time. Such-coincidences often occur in life. I happened to be a woman; and, I confess it, a woman who was interested.
Now I must go, for I have a hundred things to do. Tell Merle to come five minutes earlier in the morning and I'll talk to her in the study. On the whole, I think the arrangement will be all for the best." It was a very radiant, triumphant Mavis who ran home to the old garden, found Merle among the flowerbeds, and told her the glorious news. "Sis! You can't mean it! Is it true?
Valiantly, through her tears, she smiled. "I never did such a thing as that before for anyone." He clasped her hands tightly as he lay. "Don't cry, sweetheart!" he whispered. "You're not crying for me?" "I can't help it," she whispered back. "I can't bear to think of you suffering, you, Noel, you!" "Don't cry!" he said again, and this time there was a hint of grimness in his voice.
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