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I looked from the car window and saw it at my side, and together we went away. I was silent, wondering at the shadow which seemed to overcast the earth. The little river was bright in the noonday sun a cheery fellow-traveller through the green land. I leaned from the car window in the suddenly born hope that I might see the three still figures, back there in the hot glare of the station.
It revealed the disarray of the deck he basins, the old mahogany amputating-case with its lock plate of bone, the stained and reddened towels; and it showed the brooding and overcast faces of the men. "Isn't it there?" I asked. "Our agreement was for me to carry the key to Singleton's cabin and Burns the captain's." Miss Lee, by the rail, came forward slowly, and looked up at me.
The sky was overcast, and occasionally a rain squall would sweep from the direction of the land, and envelop the fleet. It was not a cold, raw rain, like that encountered in more northern latitudes in early summer, but a dripping of moisture peculiarly grateful after the heat of the previous day. Shortly before seven o'clock, the members of the crew were in readiness for business.
More than once he felt like resorting to a well-known expedient to determine whether he was awake or dreaming. Could all this be real? The sky was overcast. A cold, damp wind blew out of the north.
There had been a wind all day; and it was rising then, with an extraordinary great sound. In another hour it had much increased, and the sky was more overcast, and it blew hard. But, as the night advanced, the clouds closing in and densely overspreading the whole sky, then very dark, it came on to blow, harder and harder. It still increased, until our horses could scarcely face the wind.
The morning was still and soft and overcast, and the air was full of the scent of the flowers and leaves, and fresh-clipped grass.
His swarthy face was overcast, his mouth set in stern lines under its grizzled beard. "God keep you, lord," was his greeting, so lugubriously delivered as to sound like a pious, but rather hopeless, wish. "And you, Emigio," answered him the Infante. "You are early astir. What is the cause?" "III tidings, lord." He crossed the room, unlatched and flung wide a window. "Listen," he bade the prince.
"That is the truth, indeed!" she cried, bowing her head, whilst behind her the handsome face of her son was overcast. "It is," Asad agreed. "At dawn, Marzak, thou settest forth upon the galeasse of Sakr-el-Bahr to take the seas under his tutelage and to emulate the skill and valour that have rendered him the stoutest bulwark of Islam, the very javelin of Allah."
As we watched the fading hues of the lovely bow and listened to the bird song that rose and fell in tides of rarest melody we thought how like life the passing storm had been. The early hours of summer sky, how quickly they pass away, to be overcast by dark foreboding clouds of doubt and fear.
When the boat finally scraped her sides along the rough wooden jetty, Marguerite felt as if she were forcibly awakened. She was numb and stiff and thought she must have fallen asleep during the last half hour of the journey. Everything round her was dark. The sky was overcast, and the night seemed unusually sombre.
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