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Of the subsequent incidents of the feast the banter of the younger women, the duenna's lachrymose confidences, the incessant interchange of theatrical jargon and coarse pleasantry there remained to Odo but a confused image, obscured by the smoke of guttering candles, the fumes of wine and the stifling air of the low-ceilinged tavern.
The room was of a fair size for the style of dwelling and was divided in two by a long paper screen. The first half was evidently Kosinski's, and as far as I could see by the dim light, was one litter of papers, with a mattress on the floor in a corner. We walked past the screen; and the guttering candle, stuck in an old ginger-beer bottle, allowed me to see a bed in which lay the dying woman.
I was to go out of the ways of men unnoticed and unmourned; as a rebel, under the obscure name of another and bearing another's sins upon my shoulders, I was to pass almost unheeded to the gallows. Bardelys the Magnificent the Marquis Marcel Saint-Pol de Bardelys, whose splendour had been a byword in France was to go out like a guttering candle.
And even as he spoke the guttering tallow candle, swaying in its socket, suddenly went out with a loud splutter and a sizzle that echoed through the desolate room like the mocking laugh of ghouls. Once more the tramp through the dark and deserted streets, with the drizzle turned now to sleet beating on thinly clad shoulders. Fifteen men only on this tramp.
Fanning-Smith, irritated by the insistent jingling so close to his ear, lifted himself and answered the tears were guttering his swollen face; his lips and eyelids were twitching. "Well?" he said feebly. "We've got 'em on the run," came the reply in Zabriskie's voice, jubilant now. "Who?" "Don't know who whoever was trying to squeeze us.
And his tired, sleepy eyes brightened at sight of the several tables covered with cards and dice, the guttering candles, the mountains of gold and small coin scattered on the green baize tops. "Par Dieu! but 'tis a sight worth seeing after the ugly sour faces one meets in town these days!" he added, gleefully rubbing his beringed hands one against the other.
By that time the piece of candle was guttering out, and Miss Todd, tired of acting show-woman, returned to the open air, and gave marching orders. Diana and Wendy, rather fascinated with the "Goblin Hole", as they called it, lingered, poking their noses inside the entrance. "I didn't go in," said a voice behind them. Turning, they saw Sadie's face, interested, and half-regretful.
One candle was extinguished, but the other lay guttering and flaring some twenty feet above us, wasting rapidly, and casting its feeble, weird light upon where we clung. We neither of us spoke, but softly feeling about, I at length got my fingers in a chink of rock, which gave me courage to move my legs, so that at last they rested upon a rough point or knob.
I'll have that bull-necked lieutenant cashiered if his high and mighty loitering balks me in this." He stopped before the wine cask whereon the flickering candle stood and craned his neck to look beyond it. The candle was guttering smokily, and he reached a shaking thumb and finger to pluck the "dead man" from the wick. At that we heard him muttering again.
Now that she's so sad I can't do anything to hurt her more. Of course, I long for you all day, but I don't believe now that we shall ever come together there's something too strong pulling us apart." So! Her deception had found her out. But Jon she felt had forgiven that. It was what he said of his mother which caused the guttering in her heart and the weak sensation in her legs.
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