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"You won't come, then?" and an unconscious look of relief brightened Mr. Harland's features "And as Swinton doesn't wish to join us, we shall be only a party of three Captain Derrick, myself and our little friend here. We may as well be off. Is the boat ready?" We were informed that Mr. Santoris had sent his own boat and men to fetch us, and that they had been waiting for some few minutes.
Harland. In a few seconds we had put several boat- lengths between ourselves and the 'Dream, and a rush of foolish tears to my eyes blurred the figure of Santoris as he lifted his cap to us in courteous adieu. I thought Mr.
Santoris, so far as you are concerned!" he said "He is certainly a remarkable man, and owns a remarkable yacht but beyond that I am not sure that his room is not better than his company." "I daresay you feel it so," said Mr. Harland, who had for some moments been unusually taciturn and preoccupied "Your theories are diametrically opposed to his, and, for that matter, so are mine.
For a moment I could not realise what had been said and tried to repeat both question and answer 'Where did the yacht go down? 'Off Armadale, in Skye. What did it mean? The yacht? Gone down? What yacht? They were talking of Santoris of Rafel, my beloved!
And can she not serve you as an object lesson?" "Not at all," replied Mr. Harland, almost testily "She is a woman whose life has been immersed in study and contemplation, and because she has allowed herself to forego many of the world's pleasures she can be made happy by a mere nothing a handful of roses or the sound of sweet music " "Are they 'nothings'?" interrupted Santoris.
What mad idea has she got into her head about a murder?" I looked away from him across the sunlit expanse of sea. "I really cannot tell you," I said, at last "I am quite as much in the dark as you are. I think she is overwrought, and that she has perhaps taken some of the things Mr. Santoris said too much to heart.
Just now I should like a sound sleep rather than a sunset. It's very unsociable, I know, but " here he half closed his eyes and seemed inclined to doze off there and then. Santoris turned to me. "What do you say? Can you put up with my company for an hour or two and allow me to be your guide to Loch Coruisk? Or would you, too, rather not see the sunset?", Our eyes met.
"Nothing certainly is so difficult in the ordinary way of life men choose to live," answered Santoris "For the most part they run after the shadow and forsake the light. Even in work and the creative action of thought each ordinary man imagines that his especial work being all-important, it is necessary for him to sacrifice everything to it.
It would have been hard not to laugh, for the mere idea of comparing the two men, Santoris in such splendid prime and Morton Harland in his bent, lean and wizened condition, as being of the same or nearly the same age was quite ludicrous. Even Catherine smiled a weak and timorous smile. "I suppose you have grown old more quickly, father," she said "Perhaps Mr.
Morton Harland himself 'died, as the world puts it, of a painful and lingering disease which could have been cured had he chosen to take the means offered to him through Rafel Santoris. He did not choose, therefore the end was inevitable. Catherine married Dr.
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