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When he looked again, within the chamber, midway between the floor and roof, two sacks dangling at the end of two ropes spun and jerked as though they lived. Rayne had stepped back and stood quivering from head to foot by Hillyard's side; Hillyard himself felt sick. He knew very well now what he was witnessing the rehearsal of an execution.
Two years ago, Martin Hillyard reflected, Harold Jupp or Dennis would have chaffed her roundly about her conquest, and she would have retorted with good humour. Now, no one spoke, but a little sigh, a little movement of uneasiness came from Millie Splay. Joan did not take her eyes from Hillyard's face. But the blood mounted slowly over her throat and cheeks.
Habit had bred in him a vigilance, or rather an instinct which quickly made him aware of any who shadowed him. "No, that is true," said Baeza, who had been watching Hillyard's approach from the window. "But I should like to know who our young friend is on the kerb opposite, and why he is standing sentinel." Lopez Baeza laughed. "He is the sign and token of the commercial activity of Spain."
Eleven years had passed since the strange days in Spain, and those eleven years not without their sharp contrasts and full hours. Hillyard's act of memory was the making of a picture. One by one he called up the chain of coast cities wherein he had wandered.
He had come to the last letter of the little heap. He was holding the envelope in front of him and he read out the address: "Mr. Jack Williams, "Alfredo Menandez, 6, "Madrid." Fairbairn started up, and tugging at his moustache, stared at the envelope over Hillyard's shoulder. "By Jove!" he said. "We may have got something." "Let us see!" returned Hillyard, and he opened the envelope.
Now, however, his face lit up. He shut the door and took a seat at the table. "I can tell you about B45." It was Hillyard's creed that chance will serve a man very capably, if he is equipped to take advantage of its help; and here was an instance. The preparation had begun on the morning when Hillyard took the Dragonfly into the harbour of Palma.
There were great black dashes on the notepaper and lines, and here and there a scribbled picture of a face, and perhaps now and again half a word. She had sat at that table all night and had not even begun a letter. Hillyard's heart was torn with pity as he looked from her white, tired face to the sheets of notepaper.
You won't find me like that again," she cried, and she helped Hillyard on with his coat. She went to the door to see him out, but stopped as she grasped the handle. All Hillyard's talk about himself had passed in at one ear and out at the other. But every word which he had spoken about Harry Luttrell was written on her heart. And one phrase had kindled a tiny spark of hope.
"I wonder what he was to do with these." José Medina had opened the door of the saloon once more. A beam of sunlight shot through the doorway, and enveloped Hillyard's arm and hand. The tiny slim phial glittered like silver; and to all of them in the cabin it became a sinister engine of destruction. "That, as you say, is your affair.
She drew herself up to her full height she was not naturally small, but a good honest piece of English maidenhood. "Do I look as if I were likely to go to the races?" she asked superbly. She was dressed in a sort of shapeless flowing gown, saffron in colour, and of a material which, to Hillyard's inexperienced eye, seemed canvas. It spread about her on the ground, and it was high at the throat.
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