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Desmond was about to grasp it when he saw gleaming on the third finger a gold snake ring with emerald eyes the ring that Mrs. Malplaquet had given Bellward. He was about to draw back but the man was too quick for him. Owing to the slope of the ground the window of the summer-house was on a level with Desmond's throat. The man's two hands shot out simultaneously.
"Rare sport they'll have! I wouldn't be in Mr. Toley's shoes for something. What's a cock-eyed man want with a gun in his hand, eh, mateys?" Desmond felt somewhat out of his element in his present company; but having reasons of his own for making himself pleasant, he said, by way of opening a conversation: "You seem pleased at the idea of going to sea again, Mr. Bulger."
To the Irishman the shark probably appeared much larger than it really was. "He won't do us any harm; but just keep the oars out of the water," said Tom, who was, of course, obeyed, and the shark glided alongside the boat, which he kept eyeing with suspicious glances. "Would you be afther wishing to have one of us?" asked Desmond.
For a few seconds Desmond stood as if fascinated, watching the transformation which the hundreds of twinkling lights had caused. Then he pulled himself together, and with a word to the Biluchi who had loosed the lashings, bidding him hold on to the next gallivat, he sprang to the side of this vessel, and hurried towards Angria's.
Creedon must have done it too hurriedly." Desmond felt quite proud of his success; he had struck it sure, as he believed, and he continued his search, and was intently engaged when suddenly he heard a sepulchral groan at the instant he had plunged into a sort of pocket and was feeling around; but when he heard that groan he started back into the cave and stood as white as a sheet gazing around in every direction, and there was a wild terror in his eyes.
On this morning he had got up in a bad temper, and managed to find half a dozen occasions for grumbling at Desmond before breakfast, so that the boy was glad to get away and walk off his resentment and soreness of heart. As he passed the end of the lane leading toward the Hall, he saw two men in conversation some distance down it. One was on horseback, the other on foot.
The more practical soul of Lance Desmond had already dropped back to earth, as a lark drops after pouring out its heart in the blue. In spite of concern for Roy, he was thinking again of his Sikhs. "I suppose one can take it," he remarked thoughtfully, "that Vinx and Mayne and that good old Moslem johnny know what they're talking about?" Roy smiled having jumped at the connection.
I suppose he despises girls. As the hall clock struck half-past five, however, Elizabeth rose from her seat, gathering up the papers she had brought in from the office, and disappeared. Arthur Chicksands looked at his watch. Beryl exclaimed: 'Oh, no, Arthur, not yet! Let's wait for Desmond! Pamela said perfunctorily 'No, please don't go! He'll be here directly.
Mrs Desmond has a misguided notion that I am knocking myself to bits over my work in the interior." "Deuced sensible woman!" laughed Richardson. "It'll give me the greatest pleasure in life to shake hands with her." "Come and do it to-morrow then. I'll go along with you." While he talked Lenox had filled a long German pipe with a bowl of generous dimensions.
"Ungenerous! no; I have not that generosity which would enable me to give up my very heart's blood, the only joy of my soul, to such a one as my cousin Herbert." "You have nothing to give up, Mr. Fitzgerald: you must have known from the very first that my daughter could not marry you " "Not marry me! And why not, Lady Desmond?
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