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Cheal, and that the Stonehays had come to Florence knowing Leslie to be there, and eager to find her, several links would have been struck off the chain of coincidence; or, to put it more exactly, a fairly coherent sequence of events would have been substituted for a series of incoherent chances. The same result might no doubt have been achieved in many other and neater ways.
His voice came dimly: "Mind the beam! Pass the light forward...." Sowerby was struggling with the door by which Miguel and Ah-Fang-Fu unseen had made their escape and Dunbar, having rested Max's head upon a pillow, was glaring all about him, his square jaw set grimly and his eyes fierce with anger. A voice droned from a bunk: "Cheal kegur men ms ka-dheer!"
Sh! what is that!" A moaning voice from one of the bunks came. "Cheal kegur-men, mas ka dheer!" "A native adage," whispered Stuart. "He is dreaming. 'There is always meat in a kite's nest." "Eh bien! very true and I think the kite is at home!" The head of Ah-Fang-Fu vanished. A moment later the curtains opened again slightly and the old woman came out, ushering the brown man.
Here the great situation of the third act is brought about by a chain of coincidences which would be utterly unthinkable in the author's maturer work. Leslie Brudenell, the heroine, is the ward of Mr. Cheal, a solicitor. She is to be married to Dunstan Renshaw; and, as she has no home, the bridal party meets at Mr. Cheal's office before proceeding to the registrar's.
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