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But up to the last hour of his visit no further reference was made to Harry Feversham by either Ethne or Durrance, although they were thrown much into each other's company. For Dermod was even more broken than Mrs. Adair's description had led Durrance to expect.
Early the next morning the steamer moved through the canal, and towards the time of sunset passed out into the chills of the Gulf of Suez. Kassassin, Tel-el-Kebir, Tamai, Tamanieb, the attack upon McNeil's zareeba Durrance lived again through the good years of his activity, the years of plenty.
For the girl possessed the gift of music, and the strings of her violin spoke to the questions of her bow. There was in particular an overture the Melusine overture which had the very sob of the waves. Durrance had listened wondering, for the violin had spoken to him of many things of which the girl who played it could know nothing.
Durrance reappeared, to her surprise alone, and came straight to the house, up the terrace, into the drawing-room. "Have you seen Ethne?" he asked. "Is she not in the little garden by the water?" Mrs. Adair asked. "No. I went into it and called to her. It was empty." "Indeed?" said Mrs. Adair. "Then I don't know where she is. Are you going?" "Yes, home." Mrs.
Captain Willoughby began to feel sorry that he had been in such haste to deny all acquaintance with Abou Fatma of the Kabbabish tribe. "No; it was not Abou Fatma," he said, with an awkward sort of hesitation. He dreaded the next question which Durrance would put to him. He filled his pipe, pondering what answer he should make to it. But Durrance put no question at all for the moment.
Durrance had lost everything which made life to him worth living the moment he went blind everything, except one thing. "What should I do if I were crippled?" he had said to Harry Feversham on the morning when for the last time they had ridden together in the Row. "A clever man might put up with it. But what should I do if I had to sit in a chair all my days?"
His trained ear, besides, had warned him that Willoughby was uneasy at his visit and careful in his speech. There had been pauses, during which Durrance was as sure as though he had eyes wherewith to see, that his companion was staring at him suspiciously and wondering how much he knew, or how little.
She hurried him into his boat and back to Kingsbridge at once." "Then how do you know Captain Willoughby brought good news of Harry Feversham?" "Ethne told me that they had been talking of him. Her manner and her laugh showed me no less clearly that the news was good." "Yes," said Durrance, and he nodded his head in assent.
It was her fear that Durrance already suspected that no stronger feeling than friendship attached her to him. If once he heard that the fault which broke her engagement to Harry Feversham had been most bravely atoned, there could be no doubt as to the course which he would insist upon pursuing.
Calder immediately sprang up, and with his eyes followed Durrance's movements. Durrance went to a nail which was fixed in the wall close to the glass doors and on a level with his head. From that nail he took down the key of his office, crossed the room, and went out through the farther door.
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