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I didn't dare to change back, because of the reefs," she added hastily. "Didn't the Señor mean to run the convoy aground if they didn't give up the chase?" "I hadn't thought of that," Bedient said. "Mr. Framtree, hadn't you better explain to Miss Mallory?" "No, that's for you."
A seizure of the contraband, it was naïvely stated, would be a most desirable stroke by the government.... The letter closed with the information Bedient had especially requested. The young American Jim Framtree, whose movements in part had been followed by Jaffier's agents, was at The Pleiad with his chief, Celestino Rey, and was doubtless an important member of the rebel staff....
He was so ill that another man would have fallen and yet he went to The Pleiad and aboard the Spaniard's yacht, as you read.... I knew his courage before from the Hedda Gabler night but it was true, he didn't know me! The only result I know was that Mr. Framtree came to New York " It seemed to Beth that her humanity was lashed and flung and desecrated.... "But he did not know," she thought.
Framtree glanced from Bedient to Miss Mallory, who realized with added dread that the forecastle bubble was pricked. She wondered how he had conveyed the impression that others were behind. "Better let me help you with the wheel, Miss Mallory," Framtree said, decently enough. "No." "Shall I get you a glass of wine?" "No." Rey seemed to have caught a sudden hope.
The Chinese did not return, nor did Framtree call that night. But even this slight development could not hold his thoughts.... Bedient wondered if the captive would ever die; and if he should die, would he not rise again at the memory of that first kiss in the June sunlight?... And so he sat, until the day. Then he noted another letter had been slipped under his door.
His voice was big in the hush that had fallen upon the cabin.... Framtree helped the Chinese carry forth the weighted body.... As it paused for an instant on the gunwale, the searchlight from Jaffier's gunboat flicked athwart the Savonarola sinister tableaux in its ghostly light.... Without a sound the Glow-worm fell backward to the cabin floor, as if touched by the finger of the Destroying Angel.
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