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Leith's bass voice rose above the noise of the waves, and there was an angry note in it. "This isn't a nice place for you, Miss Edith!" he cried. The girl half turned her head, looked at him for a second, then without any intimation that she had heard what he said, she turned again toward me and started to cross-examine me upon the amount of damage we had sustained.
But this very good breeding increased within him a sense of discomfort which amounted almost to guilt. He tried to smother it by being very jolly with Jimmy, to whom he devoted most of his attention. When tea was over Mrs. Clarke said to her son: "Now, Jimmy, you must go away for a little while and let me have a talk with Mr. Leith." "Oh, mater, that's not fair. Mr. Leith's my pal. Aren't you, Mr.
Even as Dion realized this, his mother was poured back into the round face and plump figure beside the fire, and greeted him with the usual almost saccharine sweet smile, and: "Dee-ar, I wasn't expecting you to-day. How is the beloved one?" "The beloved one" was Mrs. Leith's rendering of Rosamund. "How particularly spry you look," she added. "I'm certain it's the Jenkins paragon.
Leith's kind efforts to "get him on during the holidays." Sir Carey had spoken of it to Cyril Vane. The thing "got about." The name of Dion Leith began to be connected rather with Jimmy Clarke than with Mrs. Clarke. Continually Dion and Jimmy were seen about together. Mrs.
I took an axe and helped Soma chop a path which would make it easier for the two sisters, but no matter what amount of trouble we took, they found it a difficult matter to follow. Once, goaded into fury by Leith's attempts to hurry the girls when Holman was assisting them over a particularly rough stretch, I turned upon the old scientist who was puffing along with the natives in the lead.
There had been no doubt in our minds concerning Leith's intentions from the time that Kaipi brought us the message which Soma had dropped, but the knowledge that the brute had declared himself to the Professor and the two girls brought us a most horrible feeling. In my own case I had never experienced such a sensation.
Down beneath us, on the slippery Ledge of Death, two natives were locked in a death grip, and a single glance told us that they were Maru and Soma. The Raretongan had chased Leith's brown lieutenant on to the path, and now they were struggling like demons in the mad endeavour to thrust each other into the depths. "Quick!" cried Holman. "The rope!"
Leith's been neglecting his exercises lately." "Oh, I've been doing a good deal in odd times with the Rifle Corps." "I don't know anything about that, sir." "All right, I'll go and change," said Dion, who always kept a singlet and flannels at the gymnasium. "Then " he turned to Mrs. Clarke as if about to say good-by. "Oh, Jimmy will want to see you for a moment after his bath.
There was a slight grin on his thin face as he imparted the information, and his merriment tickled me. I had made up my mind without waiting for Leith's decision, and I was more pleased than annoyed at knowing that my presence was not desired with the party that went inland.
Holman took a great breath of air and turned savagely upon Leith. "What sort of a fool game are you up to?" he cried. "What do you mean?" Leith's lower jaw came forward menacingly. "You had better hold your tongue!" he roared. "If you don't I'll I'll " He stopped and glared at the young fellow, a murderous expression creeping over his sallow face.
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