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You are aware that I missed my opportunity when Lady Bayrose changed her plans and rushed you off on the other ship. After that you may imagine how difficult I found it to say nothing, do nothing, coming up to Aden." "Please, please say no more!" begged Genevieve, her eyes bright with tears of distress. "I regard you too highly.
I did not wish to break in on your enjoyment of those delightful English house parties; and crossing over, you know, I was too wretchedly ill to think of anything. Can I never get accustomed to the sea!" "It's so unfortunate," condoled Genevieve. "I believe I'm a born sailor." "You proved it, starting off with that globe-trotting Lady Bayrose." "Poor Lady Bayrose!
"What! you've met her before?" demanded Blake. "Then she hasn't told you?" replied his friend. "Lady Bayrose was one of my old friends, y'know. Met 'em aboard ship sailed on the same steamer, after my run home." "You did?" muttered Blake, in blank astonishment. "You know her?" "You must have heard me sing out to her from the boat.
If there was the slightest chance for any one aboard Lady Bayrose, Miss Leslie and their maids, the only women passengers, and a British ship! Everything must have been done to save them. While Tom he'd be sure to make the shore, if that was within the bounds of possibility. Yet even if they were cast up alive six weeks on the vilest stretch of coast between Zanzibar and the Zambezi!
"This of course is hardly the time About the others, if I may ask that is, if it's not too painful for you. I infer that Lady Bayrose that she did not reach the shore." The girl's thorn-scarred, sun-blistered hands clasped together almost convulsively. But she met his look of concern with unflinching braveness. "Poor dear Lady Bayrose!" she murmured.
Yes, I er had the voyage with her through the Mediterranean and down the Red Sea. But Lady Bayrose got tiffed at me, and at Aden shifted to a Cape boat. I had to go on to India alone." "India?" queried Blake. "Trailing Hawkins. He first went to India. But he doubled back and 'round to Cape Colony." "So that's why you didn't get here sooner," said Blake. "Yes.
Better still, my dear, do not permit yourself to think of it at all. Put all that dreadful experience out of your mind." "But you do not understand, Aunt Amice. I fear you never will. Except for that for poor Lady Bayrose I've told you, I do not wish to forget it." "My dear!" protested Mrs. Gantry, "cannot you realize how very improper ? That man! What if he should talk?"
Her voice sank to a whisper: "He he was killed in the second cyclone a few days ago." "Ah!" muttered the young earl. After a pause, he asked in a tone of profound sympathy, "And the others Lady Bayrose?" "Don't ask! don't ask!" she cried, shuddering and trembling.
You must have known how vastly different were my er impressions. If Lady Bayrose hadn't so suddenly shunted you off at Aden to the Cape boat Took me quite by surprise, I assure you. Had you kept on to India, I had hoped to er " She gave him a glance that checked his fast-mounting ardor. "I I beg pardon!" he apologized.
Steamer list also showed names of my friend Lady Bayrose, Miss Leslie, and Tom." "Hey?" ejaculated Griffith, opening his narrowed eyes a line. "Same time, learned the steamer had been posted as lost, somewhere between Port Natal and Zanzibar." "Crickey!" gasped Griffith. "Then it was Tom who pulled H. V.'s daughter Miss Leslie through that deal!
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