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In response the commander uttered throaty orders to the helmsman at his elbow, and those unattached hands shifted the wheel minutely. Lanyard started to speak, but a growl from the captain, and a touch of the lieutenant's hand on his sleeve cautioned him to silence. There was a small pause. The vessel seemed to have lost way altogether, to swim like a spirit ship that Stygian tide.
I was a fool not to understand, there in the auction room, when my face was slapped with proof of your liaison with this Lanyard!" She said in mild expostulation: "But you are quite mad." "Perhaps but not so as to be blind to the truth. You had him there this afternoon to bid that picture in for you if your own means failed.
Like all the ship the landing and main companionway were dark; but below, on the promenade deck, the second doorway aft on the starboard side stood ajar, affording a glimpse of a dimly lighted stateroom. With neither hesitation nor surprise for he was already satisfied in this matter Lanyard conducted the woman to this door and stopped. Her hand fell from his arm.
Even the illumination in the saloon had been dimmed down for the night, as he could tell by the tarnished gleam beneath his stateroom door. Still, not everyone had gone to bed. The very manner of his waking informed him that he was not alone; for the life Lanyard had led had taught him to need no better alarm than the entrance of another person into the place where he lay sleeping.
And more often than he liked Lanyard watched it creep up to and past the mark seventy. With such driving he was quite willing to believe that they would see Cherbourg or Heaven by midnight if not before; always, of course, providing... For the first three hours Leon stood the pace well.
Here are the plans." "You trust them to me?" Ducroy asked in astonishment. "But naturally: that makes it an affair of your honour," Lanyard explained suavely. With a gesture of graceful capitulation the Frenchman accepted the little roll of film. "Permit me," he said, "to acknowledge the honour of monsieur's confidence!"
There remained about Lanyard little to remind of Andre Duchemin but his eyes; and the look of one's eyes, as every good actor knows, is something far more easy to disguise than is commonly believed.
He closed and latched the farther window, then that wherein Lanyard had lurked, and ambled back into the room with never a glance toward that shadowed corner which held the wing chair. And Lanyard drew a deep breath, if a quiet one. Behind him the conversation had continued without break.
I had my knife secured by a lanyard round my neck, so I began to haul up the ropes, and endeavoured to form as secure a resting-place for myself as circumstances would allow. When I had done all I could, I looked round through the darkness for the chance of discovering a sail; but none could I see, so I sat down, and, strange to say, fell asleep.
And now more than ever Lanyard was firmly bent on going his own way unwatched. His own way first led him stealthily past the door of the conciergerie and through the court to the public hall in the main body of the building. Happily, there were no lights to betray him had anyone been awake to notice.
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