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Nap only smiled cynically. "Is Hudson to take this note? Can I address it for you?" If he expected to cause any discomfiture by the suggestion he was disappointed. Lucas answered him with absolute composure. "Yes; to Lady Carfax at the Manor. It is to go at once." Nap thrust it into an envelope with a perfectly inscrutable countenance, scrawled the address, and handed it to the valet.

Anne Carfax sank back in her corner and lay motionless. The glare of the little electric lamp upon her face showed it white and tired. Her eyes were closed. The man beside her sat bolt upright, his eyes fixed unblinkingly upon the window in front, his jaw set grimly. He held the gloves he had worn all the evening between his hands, and his fingers worked at them unceasingly.

Early in the proceedings somebody had disinterred brandy and Schnapps from under a bunk. The room had become close; they all were sweating. Carfax emptied his iced glass, still breathing hard, tossed a shilling and sent in Gary as cuckoo. Flint, who never could stand spirits, started unsteadily for the candle, but could not seem to blow it out.

Carfax seated himself at one of the telescopes, not looking through it, his heavy eyes partly closed, his burnt-out pipe between his teeth. Gary rose from the telephone and joined the card players. They shuffled and dealt listlessly, seldom speaking save in monosyllables. After a while Carfax went over to the card table and the young lieutenant cashed in and took his place at the telescope.

But she sleep not, being as though I were not. Still I try and try, till all at once I find her and myself in dark, so I look round, and find that the sun have gone down. Madam Mina laugh, and I turn and look at her. She is now quite awake, and look so well as I never saw her since that night at Carfax when we first enter the Count's house. I am amaze, and not at ease then.

Nap leaned forward without replying, the sunlight still shining upon his face, and looked at him attentively. "Yes," Lucas said very wearily. "It has come to that. I can't have you here disturbing the public peace. I won't have my own brother arraigned as a murderer. Nor will I have Anne Carfax pilloried by you for all England to throw mud at.

But Simon Carfax swore that drink had lost him his wife, and now had lost him the last of his five children, and would lose him his own soul, if further he went on with it; and from that day to his death he never touched strong drink again. As for me, I had no ambition to become a miner; and the state to which gold-seeking had brought poor Uncle Ben was not at all encouraging.

"You must you must," she answered; "I shall die if they hurt you. I hear the old nurse moving. Grandfather is sure to send for me. Keep back from the window." However, it was only Gwenny Carfax, Lorna's little handmaid: my darling brought her to the window and presented her to me, almost laughing through her grief. "Oh, I am so glad, John; Gwenny, I am so glad you came.

Lady Carfax, hasn't it struck you that a time will come probably pretty soon when he will begin to reach out for something that you and you alone can give?" Anne's quick gesture of protest was his answer. She stood motionless, her eyes still raised, waiting for him to continue. But he felt her tremble under his hand. He knew that inwardly she was not so calm as she would have had him think.

"Thus musing I paced up and down outside the tent in the bright moonlight. Carfax was still sleeping, but uneasily, and muttering a lot in his sleep. There across the dunes the diamonds must be there somewhere. He had come from yonder towards the big dune. And almost mechanically my footsteps wandered away from the tent towards where I had met Carfax.

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