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Dollond, in a confidential undertone, some story of a fair American sitter, who, on his expressing himself dissatisfied with his efforts worthily to transfer her complexion to canvas, had at once offered to send her maid round to his studio with an assortment of her favourite poudre de rose.
Dollond was inclined to be resentful, for the moment, at least; and, as a preliminary attack, she maliciously encouraged Eve, who, ensconced in a corner, blissfully unconscious of the maternal anxiety which the other matron had detected, was eagerly turning over the contents of a portfolio which she had unearthed from its lurking-place behind her chair.
Dollond's instigation, started for a stroll through the olives towards the old town. "Are you wintering here?" he asked after a moment, feeling that an affirmative answer would hardly be to his taste. But Mrs. Dollond, with an upward inclination of her vivacious shoulders, repudiated the notion.
They started on foot, stating their intention of walking to Estcourt, hiring horses from natives there, and proceeding on horseback. They had evidently never reached Estcourt, as nothing could be heard of them at that village. They were both young men colonists by birth. Dollond had an especially youthful appearance. Franks was older. He had joined the force later in life.
He and Dollond, who had only very recently before his disappearance been promoted, were chums.
"A telescope here!" cried John; and already, before the servants who appeared at the call were in motion, the gray man, modestly bowing, had thrust his hand into his coat-pocket, and drawn thence a beautiful Dollond and handed it to John.
Dollond had been greatly on his hands, for her husband had made no secret of the willingness with which he had accepted Rainham's escort for the indefatigable lady amongst the miscellaneous company of the tables, leaving him free to study the picturesque in the less heated atmosphere which he preferred. And a week of Mrs.
Dollond, settling herself in her wraps with a little shudder. "No," said Rainham, with a smile. "I think, Mrs. Dollond, it was rather nice: it was the waking up which was disagreeable." They made their breakfast a very late one at Mentone, and dawdled over it, Mr.
He forced open the case, and saw, roughly scratched on the inside, the letter D. He now recognised it; he remembered having once fixed a glass in this very watch for Dollond, about a month before the latter's disappearance. Continuing his search Whitson found the iron heel-plate of a boot, and a small bunch of keys.
DOLLOND. A bright crater, about 6 miles in diameter, on the N.E. side of Descartes. Between it and the latter there is a rill-valley. TACITUS. A bright ring-plain, about 28 miles in diameter, a few miles E. of Catherina, with a lofty wall rising both on the E. and W. to more than 11,000 feet above the floor.
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