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"Her house revealed to me the hideous fact that all the best houses in London smack of cocotte-try; the trail of cushions and liqueurs is over them all. Mrs. Leith's house is a vestal, and its lamp is always trimmed." Daventry's comment on this was: "Trimmed yes, but trimmings no!"
"The captain sent me," I replied, looking straight at the giant as I fired the lie at him. "The carriers forgot Professor Herndon's camera, and Captain Newmarch sent Kaipi and me after you." Leith's mutterings were drowned by the scientist's cries of joy as he took the camera from my hand, and the big brute had time to recover himself before the Professor had stopped chattering.
Leith's getting Jimmy on in Greek." Sometimes she would add: "Mr. Leith loves boys, and since his own child died so sadly I think he's taken to Jimmy more than ever." Soon people began to talk of Dion Leith as "Jimmy Clarke's holiday tutor." Once, when this was said in Lady Ingleton's drawing-room at Therapia, she murmured: "I don't think it quite amounts to that. Mr.
I had had little chance of speaking to Edith Herndon since the moment I came aboard, but I determined, after I had looked at the matter from every side, that I would ask her point blank if I could be of any assistance. Leith's face was the only prop he put forward as a support to his claims of respectability, and his face betrayed him. My chance came early that evening.
Leith's old-maid sister and she was not of much importance in the household. But, though we felt sorry for her, we couldn't like her. She really was fussy and meddlesome; she liked to poke a finger into every one's pie, and she was not at all tactful. Then, too, she had a sarcastic tongue, and seemed to feel bitter towards all the young folks and their love affairs.
Clarke knew the arrival of Rosamund meant something that might be tremendously important to herself. As she stood there before the church she was groping to find this something; but her mental faculties seemed to be paralyzed, and she could not find it. Rosamund Leith's eyes had told Mrs. Clarke something, that Rosamund knew of Dion's unfaithfulness and who the woman was.
The end of the gulch that was not more than a stone's throw from the face of the cliff was already dark with the shadows of the hills, and as we suspected that the opening to Leith's refuge was close, we wished to make no unnecessary noise in approaching it.
The youngster was not lacking in courage, and he stood up boldly as the bully screamed out his threats. "I won't go back," he said quietly. "At least I won't go back alone." Leith's big fingers crooked ominously as he glared at Holman, but Edith Herndon prevented the conflict that was imminent. "Mr. Holman is only concerned about our safety," she cried, stepping in front of the youngster.
Barbara was silent, except for an occasional sob which she was unable to stifle, while the Professor poured forth his story of Leith's deception when he first met him in Sydney, and where the big scoundrel had poured into the ears of the laurel-hungry scientist the tales of skulls and ruins which he would find upon the Isle of Tears.
Clarke, meanwhile, often went among her friends alone, and when they asked about Jimmy she would say: "Oh, he's gone off somewhere with Mr. Leith. I don't know where. Mr. Leith's a regular boy's man and was a great chum of Jimmy's in London; used to show him how to box and that sort of thing. It's partly for Jimmy that he came to Buyukderer. They read together in the mornings. Mr.
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