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And all this time Iris's face was dimpling with amusement, for she understood him so well that had he threatened to kill her she would have laughed at him. "Would you mind getting the lamp?" he said softly, surprised to catch her expression of saucy humor. "Oh, please may I speak?" she inquired. "I don't want to annoy you, but I am simply dying to talk." He had forgotten his own injunction.
In fact, Coke had already called both Watts and Hozier into council, and they had agreed with him that the wiser plan would be to bear in towards the island from the east, and anchor in smooth water as close to South Point as the lead would permit. As for Iris's wild foreboding that the ship was intended to be lost, Philip did not give it other than a passing thought.
Them stays are a bit troublesome if they run to size, but she's thin enough as it is. Anyhow, I can show you a fine trick for that. Just turn her over till I cast a lashin' loose with my knife." Watts was elbowed aside so unceremoniously that his temper gave way. Hozier lifted Iris's head gently and unfastened the neck-hooks of her blouse.
Nor was it exactly pleasant to him to note how steadily Anstruther advanced in the favor of every officer on the ship. By tacit consent the court-martial was tabooed, at any rate until the Orient reached Singapore. Every one knew that the quarrel lay between Robert and Ventnor, and it is not to be wondered at if Iris's influence alone were sufficient to turn the scale in favor of her lover.
Iris thought it would be better for the boys not to keep rabbits; but to any hint of this kind her mother's answer was always the same: "They may be a little disagreeable sometimes, dear, but I couldn't deprive the poor boys of one of their few amusements." Her words came into Iris's mind this evening as her eye rested on the unsuccessful garden, and she bent over her work again with a sigh.
Throwing aside the rags which covered him, he tried to rise. Philip caught a glimpse of the uniform, the sheen of the naked sword. He was about to tear himself from Iris's clasp and spring at this new enemy when the Brazilian spoke. "Mil diabos!" he cried in a rage, "this cursed Inglez still lives, and here am I posing before him like an old hag."
Hozier, though by no means indifferent to the good fare provided, was wondering how many hours would elapse before Iris's cablegram reached Verity's office, when some words caught his ear that drove all other considerations from his mind. "I am sorry to say that, in my opinion, there is not the slightest chance of your message reaching England to-day, Miss Yorke," the President was saying.
They have arrived. They are asking for you. Come, let us meet them! I must see my father before he departs." Iris's swimming eyes could not discern the figures to which Carmela was pointing. But this strange girl's triumphant tone rang like a knell in her heart. She was not thinking now of the complications that might arise between San Benavides and his discarded flame.
There is also in the packet my portrait, taken when I was a lad of sixteen; give her that as well; there is the certificate of my marriage, my register of baptism, that of Iris's baptism, my signet ring " "His arms" the old man interrupted his reading "his arms were: quarterly: first and fourth, two roses and a boar's head, erect; second and third, gules and fesse between between but I cannot remember what it was between " He went on reading: "My father's last letter to me; Alice's letters, and one or two from yourself.
Lifting Iris's glowing face to his own, he whispered: "Tell me, sweetheart, how comes it that our Brazilian friend is here?" "He ran away when some shots were fired," which was rather unfair of Iris. "He said the launch had been sunk by a man-of-war " "But he is wrong. I saw no man-of-war. We captured the launch. By this time she is well out to sea.
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