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They, however, at length succeeded in getting on board the Anaconda. Commander Allport, who was standing on deck, received Adair with a supercilious air.
'Nevertheless, said Mr. Allport, 'it's true isn't it? 'It is not and I should know, replied Beatrice, drawing a cloak of reserve ostentatiously over her face. Mr. Allport looked at her and waited. Beatrice relaxed toward the pessimistic young man. 'Yes, she said, 'I call it very cowardly to want to get out of your difficulties in that way. Think what you inflict on other people.
"Instead of that, old Allport is expending powder and shot in making a target of her, for no earthly reason beyond that of showing that he is my superior officer, though of equal rank. I wish to goodness he had been laid on the shelf, the only position he is fit for." "We must try what can be done," said Murray.
You men, you're all selfish. The burden is always left for the women. 'Ah, but then, said Mr. Allport very softly and sympathetically, looking at Beatrice's black dress, 'I've no one depending on me. 'No you haven't but you've a mother and sister. The women always have to bear the brunt. Mr. Allport looked at Beatrice, and found her very pathetic.
Vera smiled to herself. 'Yes, come and look, she said. The young man rose with alacrity. Mr Holiday came into the dining-room whilst they were down the garden. 'What, nobody in! they heard him exclaim. 'There is Holiday, murmured Mr Allport resentfully. Vera did not answer. Holiday came to the open window, attracted by the fragrance.
I knew, though, that, if he had done the wrong, she would never again be able to give him the eager love he desired, and I, too, an unwilling spectator, waited on his words for his future, and Leila's; but his voice did not make answer. It was Dick Allport who spoke. "Bessie Lowe is a girl I used to care for," he said. "She is the girl who sang at the Musicians' Club, the girl who spoke to you.
Directly afterwards Murray sent his second lieutenant to the Anaconda, with a request that the commander would come on board his ship to consult with him as to the best means of saving Her Majesty's ship Flash, now in sight on the rocks. The request, of course, amounted to an order, which Commander Allport, however unwillingly, obeyed.
Allport rushed to the nearest police station, and gave information of what had occurred. The police hastened to the scene of this daring exploit, but of course "the birds were flown," and no one could say whither. Needless to say how this occurrence intensified the perplexity and the rage of the government party in all parts of the country.
She and Frank and Vera had done the rest. She did not mind for herself; it was for Frank and Vera, who should be now enjoying their careless youth, that her heart was heavy. There was silence for a while. Mr. Allport murmured his sympathy, and sat overwhelmed with respect for this little woman who was unbroken by tragedy. The bell rang in the kitchen. Vera entered. 'Oh, what a nice smell!
We were listening to Leila Burton's music her husband, and Dick Allport, and I with the throb of London beating under us like the surge of an ocean in anger, when there rose above the smooth harmonies of the piano and the pulsing roar of the night a sound more poignant than them both, the quavering melody of a street girl's song. Through the purpling twilight of that St.
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