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I begin to think that this explosion will prove to be a blessing in disguise, and act as a rallying-call to bring the men back and take the enemy, if they come on again, in the rear." "Yes, to be sure," said the Resident, who stood half-turned from his companions in distress, and was gazing hard in the direction of the river.
"I should never have known there was a vacancy here but for you. I should not have been admitted by the proper Miss Millit but for the terror of your name." She dropped her little hand lightly on his shoulder. It was a gesture of good-comradeship. She half-turned to go when an angry exclamation held her. "What is it? Oh, I see No. 4!"
Remembered the abject terror in the eyes of those who fled into the bush at his appearance, and the servility of the canoemen. As she glanced into the half-turned face of the man, Chloe saw that the sneering smile had faded from the thin lips as he waited her answer. "At my own instigation."
She had, moreover, in some mysterious way, caught sight of a figure resembling Norman Mann, trying, she thought, to avoid her. Her spirits rose with the half-mystery, and she grew brighter and prettier and more magnetic to the two followers as she tossed her shoulders slightly and now and then half-turned her sunny head. As for Eric, he was totally unconscious of any secrets.
The girl stopped suddenly and half-turned as if to run; but, at his words, stood still. "What is it, Judy?" he asked, going to her. "What is the matter?" "There's a heap the matter!" she answered, regarding him with that sly oblique look; while Brian noticed a feeling of intense excitement in her voice.
Saxon half-turned his fierce face, raising an impatient hand, and the hoarse murmur died away among our men, though our less-disciplined companions to right and left continued to wave their green boughs and to clatter their arms.
He returned the volume and came back to stand by the mantel, half-turned from her, looking down into the fire. For the moment, he had created in himself a reaction against his present extraordinary experiment, his wilderness adventure. He was keenly conscious of a desire for civilized woman, for her practiced tongue, her poise, her matchless companionship....
They could not see each other; but a wan glimmer gave him a fleeting, misty view of her; she stood half-turned away from him, her hand to her cheek in the uncertain fashion of his great moment of the afternoon; her eyes-he saw in the flying picture that he caught were adorably troubled and her hand trembled.
She got up and walked over to the door and stood, half-turned from him, her fingers playing with the latch. Dickie found part of his voice. "What do you mean, Sheila, about your stars?" "You told me," she said carefully, "that you would go and work and then come back But, I suppose " That was as far as she got. Dickie flung himself across the room. A chair crashed. He had his arms about her.
With her hair done high, showing the beautiful curve of her head and throat as she stood half-turned toward him, he had caught another glimpse of her startling resemblance to the portrait. He could not regret losing his Little Colonel if that loss were to give him a living reminder of a beloved memory.
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