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The same thought, indeed, had been in both their minds. Mr. Fentolin's courteous suggestion had been offered to them almost in the shape of a command. It was scarcely possible to escape from the reflection that he had desired to rid himself of their presence for the morning. "Of course," he went on, "I knew that these links were good quite famous, aren't they?"
Fentolin leaned forward. His features had lost their delicately benevolent aspect; his words were minatory. "I am under the impression, sir," he said, "that I saw you with my glasses from the window attempting to force an entrance into that building." Hamel nodded. "I not only tried but I succeeded," he remarked. "I got in through the window." Mr. Fentolin's eyes glittered for a moment.
"You know what the withholding of this message you carry may mean," Mr. Fentolin proceeded. "You come here, bearing to Europe the word of a great people, a people whose voice is powerful enough even to still the gathering furies. I have read your ciphered message. It is what I feared. It is my will, mine Miles Fentolin's that that message be not delivered." "I wonder," Mr.
He had never for a moment been able to dismiss her from his thoughts. Her still, cold face, the delicate perfection of her clothes and figure, the grey eyes which had rested upon his so curiously, haunted him. He was desperately anxious to see her again. If he refused this invitation, if he rejected Mr. Fentolin's proffered friendship, it would be all the more difficult.
A single gleam of light in the path, come and gone like a flash, the gleam of an electric torch directed momentarily towards the road, was his first indication that they were near. A moment or two later he heard the strange click, click of the little engine attached to Mr. Fentolin's chair. Hamel set his teeth and stepped a few inches further back.
The trap-doors were suddenly closed. Mr. Fentolin's face, as he looked up, became diabolic. "We are trapped!" he muttered; "caught like rats in a hole!" A gleam of day was in the sky as Hamel, with Mrs. Fentolin by his side, passed along the path which led from the Tower to St. David's Hall.
I have been down to the village and fetched them up." Mr. Fentolin followed her outstretched finger and gave a sudden start. Standing at the edge of the sea were a dozen or twenty fishermen. They were all muttering together and looking at the top of the boat-house. As he realised the direction of their gaze, Mr. Fentolin's face underwent a strange transformation. He seemed to shrink in his chair.
Fentolin's expression darkened. "Sometimes," he murmured softly, "I think that if I had strong fingers really strong fingers, you know, Lucy I should want to take you by the throat and hold you tighter and tighter, until your breath came fast, and your eyes came out from their shadows." She turned over a few pages of her notebook. To all appearance she had not heard a word.
Fentolin's long finger shot suddenly out. He was leaning a little from his chair. His expression of gentle immobility had passed away. His face was stern, almost stony. "You have spoken the truth, Gerald," he said. "There are other things in the world besides games. There is the real, the tragical side of life, the duties one takes up, the obligations of honour.
Fentolin nodded. "Excellent!" he pronounced. "Really excellent. With a little assistance from our friend Meekins, you, I am sure, Sarson, will now be able to climb up and let down the steps." Doctor Sarson stood by Mr. Fentolin's chair, and together they looked up through the fragments of the trap-door. Meekins was still breathing heavily.
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