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As they dashed past, both white men had one fleeting glimpse of a woman's face beneath a furred hood, and then it was gone. For a moment they stood and stared after the fast-dwindling team, while the breath of the Arctic sea stiffened their garments and froze their boot-soles to the ice. "Did you see?" Fraser ejaculated. "Good Lord, it's a woman! A blonde woman!" Emerson stirred himself.
Twenty minutes' walk took Arnold and Colston to the door of the tenement-house in which the former had lived since his fast-dwindling store of money had convinced him of the necessity of bringing his expenses down to the lowest possible limit if he wished to keep up the struggle with fate very much longer. As they mounted the dirty, evil-smelling staircase, Colston said "Phew!
Perhaps you will find time to send them some of your fast-dwindling luxuries, as you flit from town to country, country to town, and so to bed. FRANCE, July, 1916 ... What are your feelings, dear lady, as you watch the airships that pass in the night and hear the explosion of their bombs?
The angry reply was that they would move that day, and, without a word, he left his family in suspense. In the course of the forenoon he returned with a furniture van, and had so braced himself with opium that he was able to assist effectively, yet morosely, in the packing and removing of their fast-dwindling effects, for everything not essential had been sold.
"None for me?" sighed Clifford, watching the fast-dwindling bouquet. She laughed brightly as she tossed the last handful below, and then turned and leaned over Gethryn's chair. "You destructive little wretch!" he laughed, "this is not the season for the Battle of Flowers. But white roses mean nothing, so I'm not jealous."
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