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"You must be very careful in anything you say about me," she said with a praiseworthy attempt at light raillery. "I shall be careful with the care of a man who has discovered some rare jewel, and fears lest each shadow should conceal an enemy till he has reached a place of utmost security." She sighed, and her glance wandered away into the sun-drowned valley.
Many a time in the sun-drowned days and windless nights Marcella was reminded of those old tales she had heard on Lashnagar from Wullie's lips, of the hot summer when the witch-woman came and men went mad just before the destruction came on the village. It was as though the Oriana went on ploughing through the waters, with the Dog-Star hitched to her masthead inflaming men's blood.
For an instant the disorder of his mind made it appear that the sun-drowned silence had never really been broken, that all that had happened had been no more than a flash of nightmare. Then he perceived. Captain Hahn, legs astraddle, a-bulge with the sense of achievement, was giving orders. "Tie the dog's hands," he commanded. "Tie them behind his back! Cord? Get a cord somewhere, you fool!
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