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I caught my breath, for under the black eye brows, the whites of the eyes were stained a pure sparrow-egg blue. "I came from Birmingham yesterday," I heard him saying. "There ain't nothing the matter with me." "You ought to go to a fever hospital," said someone. "We don't want that blue stuff in London," added another. "Perhaps it's catching," said the first speaker.
He stopped. His brain, working at unwonted speed, had discovered a fresh suspicion. "Look 'ere, you two know something about this blue disease." He came a step closer, and looking cunningly in my face, said: "That's why you offered me a five-pound note, ain't it?" I avoided the scrutiny of the sparrow-egg blue orbs close before me.
I asked swiftly. "The Perrys? From Birmingham." "Was there anything wrong with them?" "What do you mean?" Before I could reply the old man opened his eyes. The light fell clearly on his face. Alice uttered a cry of horror. I experienced an extraordinary sensation of fear. Out of the marble pallor of Mr. Annot's face, two eyes, stained a sparrow-egg blue, stared keenly at us.
She did not reply; we walked on immersed in our own thoughts. At times I detected in the passers-by a gleam of sparrow-egg blue. My house agent was a large, confused individual who habitually wore a shining top hat on the back of his head and twisted a cigar in the corner of his mouth. He was very fat, with one of those creased faces that seem to fall into folds like a heavy crimson curtain.
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