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"They can't elope on this island." "They can't, eh? Why, man, they could elope in the château and nobody could overtake 'em. You've no idea how big it is. The worst of it is, Deppingham has got an idea that they may try to put him out of the way him and Drusilla. Awful, isn't it?" "Perfect rot, Britt. You'll find that it turns out all right in the end.

We don't want to do anything that would seem forward and out of place, sir." "It's very considerate of you, Saunders; but what the devil are you talking about?" "Haven't you heard, sir?" "That we are to die? Certainly." "That's not all, sir. Miss Miss Pelham and I have decided to get er get married before it is too late." Deppingham stared hard for a moment and then grinned broadly.

He had forfeited the trust and confidence of the one loyal believer among them all.... And now, Lady Deppingham loathed him because his weakness had been greater than hers! When he would have slain the four helpless islanders with his own hands, Hollingsworth Chase had stayed his rage with the single, caustic adjuration: "Keep out of this, Browne!

Please tell Lord Deppingham that if he persists in snooping about the ravines in search of rubies, he'll get an unmanageable bullet in the back of his head some day soon. He's being watched all the time. The natives resent his actions, foolish as they may seem to us. This is not child's play. He has no right to a single ruby, even if he should see one and know what it was.

This much they knew: the cavern stretched to endless distances, wide in spots, narrow in others, treacherous yet attractive in its ugly, grave-like solitudes. "God, Chase, they are lost in there!" groaned Deppingham, numb with apprehension. He was trembling like a leaf. "There's just one thing to do," said Chase, "we've got to explore that cavern to the end.

He came here to tell 'em what to do and how to report our affairs to him. See? Well, there you are. We've simply got to be careful what we do and say in their presence. Leave 'em to me. Just be careful, that's all." "I don't intend to be watched by a band of sneaks " began Lord Deppingham loftily. "You can't help yourself," interrupted Britt. "I'll discharge every demmed one of them, that's "

"It's no worse than a charity ball, Mr. Chase," she said severely. "Charity begins at home, gentlemen, and I'm here to look out for myself. No one else will, let me tell you that. I want to get the deposition of every person in the château. They can be sworn to before Mr. Bowles, who is a magistrate, I'm told. He can marry people and " "By Jove!" exclaimed Deppingham suddenly. "Can he?

All previous perils and all that the future seemed to promise were forgotten in the startling discovery that came with the fall of night. The first disclosures were succeeded by a frantic but ineffectual search throughout the grounds; the château was ransacked from top to bottom. Lady Deppingham and Robert Browne were missing! They had disappeared as if swallowed by the earth itself!

Britt has talked with them," she called to the disgraced nobleman. "They won't stop for me," he muttered, looking at the half-dozen krises that were visible. Britt smoothed the troubled waters with astonishing ease; the servants returned to their duties, but not without grumbling and no end of savage glances, all of which were levelled at the luckless Deppingham.

She left him standing there; the wall between them was too high, too impregnable for even Love to storm. Lady Deppingham came to him there a moment later. "I am sorry," she said tenderly. "Is there no hope?" "There is no hope for her!" he said bitterly. "She was condemned too long ago." On the pier they said good-bye to him.

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