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The question pressed upon Mrs. Adair. She longed for an answer, and of course for that particular answer which would convict Ethne Eustace of duplicity. Her interest grew into an excitement when she saw Durrance, tired of waiting, follow upon Ethne's steps. But what came after was to interest her still more.
She could still live in her own country and move in her own home. For the Lennon house could be rebuilt and the estates cleared of their debt. "Besides," said Calder, "there is always a possibility of a cure." "There is no such possibility," said Durrance, with a decision which quite startled his companion. "You know that as well as I do;" and he added with a laugh, "You needn't start so guiltily.
Ethne did not turn towards Durrance or move at all from her attitude. She sat with her violin upon her knees, looking across the moonlit garden to the band of silver in the gap of the trees; and she kept her position deliberately. For it helped her to believe that Harry Feversham himself was speaking to her, she was able to forget that he was speaking through the voice of Durrance.
Calder took his pipe from his mouth, and, standing thus in full view of Durrance, slowly and deliberately placed it into Durrance's outstretched palm. It was not until the hot bowl burnt his hand that Durrance snatched his arm away. The pipe fell and broke upon the floor.
Harry Feversham at the table reading and re-reading his telegram, Trench and Willoughby waiting silently, perhaps expectantly, and himself paying no heed, but staring out from the bright room into the quiet and cool of the park. "Castleton was dining with a big man from the War Office that night," Durrance said, and a little movement at his side warned him that he was getting hot in his search.
"You disliked Major Castleton so much?" he exclaimed. "I never knew him." "Yet you are glad that he is dead?" "I am quite glad," said Ethne, stubbornly. She made another slip when she spoke thus of Major Castleton, and Durrance did not pass it by unnoticed. He remembered it, and thought it over in his gun-room at Guessens.
Nor did she turn to look at Durrance when she had done. "So she has lost everything?" said Durrance. "She still has a home in Donegal," returned Mrs. Adair. "And that means a great deal to her," said Durrance, slowly. "Yes, I think you are right." "It means," said Mrs. Adair, "that Ethne with all her ill-luck has reason to be envied by many other women."
She said not a word to you. She forbade Willoughby to tell you." "She is very true, very loyal," returned Durrance. "She has pledged herself to me, and nothing in the world, no promise of happiness, no thought of Harry, would induce her to break her pledge. I know her. But I know too that she only plighted herself to me out of pity, because I was blind. I know that she has not forgotten Harry."
Durrance had reason to be glad that he had mentioned his plan before the arrival of Calder's telegram from Wadi Halfa. Ethne was unable to connect his departure from her with the receipt of any news about Feversham. The telegram came one afternoon, and Durrance took it across to The Pool in the evening and showed it to Ethne. There were only four words to the telegram:
He was on his way to Suakin. "Why did you hide?" asked Durrance. "It was safer. I knew you for my friends. But, my gentleman, did you know me for yours?" Then Durrance said quickly, "You speak English," and Durrance spoke in English. The answer came without hesitation. "I know a few words." "Where did you learn them?" "In Khartum."
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