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Updated: May 23, 2025
At his elbow Blix was leaning forward, looking down upon the darkening, drowsing city, her round, strong chin propped upon her hand. She was just close enough for Candy to catch the sweet, delicious feminine perfume that came indefinitely from her clothes, her hair, her neck.
She would be disturbed at nothing, excited at nothing; Blix was sure of that. She was placid, but it was the placidity not of the absence of emotion, but of emotion disdained. Not the placidity of the mollusk, but that of a mature and contemplative cat. Quietly she sat down at a corner table, quietly she removed her veil and gloves, and quietly she took in the room and its three occupants.
Part of them, under the leadership of Tudor, were to go up the Balesuna and penetrate the mountainous heart of Guadalcanar, while the Martha, under Von Blix, sailed away for Malaita to put through similar exploration. "And so," said Von Blix, "for Mr. Tudor's expedition we must have some black-boys. Can we get them from you?" "Of course we will pay," Tudor broke in.
"Bet you five more." Blix looked at her hand. Then, without trace of expression in her voice or face, said: "There's your five, and I'll raise you five." "Five better." "And five better than that." "Call you." "Full house. Aces on tens," said Blix, throwing down her cards. "Heavens! they're good as gold," muttered Condy as Blix gathered in the chips.
Most couples would have 'drifted apart'; but here we are, planning to be chums, and have good times in our own original, unconventional way and we can do it, too. There, there, he's a thousand miles away. He's not heard a single word I've said. Condy, are you listening to me?" "Blix," he murmured, staring at her vaguely. "Blix you look that way; I don't know, look kind of blix.
Blix had been busy with the last details of her packing, and they did not get started until toward two in the afternoon. "Strike me!" exclaimed Captain Jack, as Blix informed him that she had come to say good-by. "Why, ain't this very sudden-like, Miss Bessemer? Hey, Kitty, come in here. Here's Miss Bessemer come to say good-by; going to New York to-morrow."
Toward the middle of the afternoon Blix, who was waiting at home, in great suspense, for that very purpose, received another telegram from Condy: "Tension of situation relieved. Unconditional permission obtained. Don't forget the shrimps." It had been understood that Condy was to come to the flat on Sunday afternoon to talk over final arrangements with Blix.
Rivers, this is m' wife, Kitty, and lessee, miss, I don't rightly remember your name." "Bessemer!" exclaimed Condy and Blix in a breath. "Oh!" exclaimed K. D. B., "you were in the restaurant the night that the Captain and I I that is yes, I'm quite sure I've seen you before." She turned from one to the other, beginning to blush furiously.
After supper, while the light still lasted, Blix read stories to him while he smoked cigarettes in the bay window of the dining-room. But as soon as the light began to go she put the book aside, and the two took their accustomed places in the window, and watched the evening burning itself out over the Golden Gate.
Condy tossed the coin and lost, and Blix said, as he picked up the book: "For a man that has such unvarying bad luck as you, gambling is just simple madness. You and I have never played a game of poker yet that I've not won every cent of money you had." "Yes; and what are you doing with it all?" "Spending it," she returned loftily; "gloves and veils and lace pins all kinds of things."
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