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She stopped and caught at the rail like a prisoner gripping at the bars that confine him. "I cannot cannot endure it! Where are you taking me? Where can you take me? Don't you see that there is no escape from this?" The Sylph rose and sank to the first long roll of the open sea. "When we reach Malduna " I began, but the words were only torture. "I cannot cannot go on. Take me back! to that island!
I hazarded to my companion the notion that a woman like Miss Stanleigh could have but one of two purposes in this lonely part of the world she was fleeing from a lover or seeking one. "In that case," rejoined my friend, with the cynical shrug of the newspaper man, "she has very promptly succeeded. It's whispered that she is going to marry Joyce of Malduna Island, you know.
Major Stanleigh and his wife deferred their departure for England until their niece should be properly married to Joyce. At Eleanor's wish, it was a very simple affair, and as Joyce's bride she was as eager to be off to his rubber-plantation in Malduna as he was to set her up there as mistress of his household.
I hazarded to my companion the notion that a woman like Miss Stanleigh could have but one of two purposes in this lonely part of the world she was fleeing from a lover or seeking one. "In that case," rejoined my friend, with the cynical shrug of the newspaper man, "she has very promptly succeeded. It's whispered that she is going to marry Joyce of Malduna Island, you know.
Joyce was lucky, indeed favored of the gods, to have touched the spring in this girl's heart which no other man could reach, and by the rarest of chances her coming out to this remote corner of the world. Lucky Joyce! I knew him slightly a straightforward young fellow, very simple and whole-souled, enthusiastically absorbed in developing his rubber lands in Malduna.
"But we shall reach Malduna that much sooner?" she queried. I nodded. "However, if you feel any uneasiness, I'll give the island a wide berth." I didn't like the idea of dragging her the bride of a week past that place with its unspeakable memories, if it should really distress her. Her eyes thanked me silently across the table.
She stopped and caught at the rail like a prisoner gripping at the bars that confine him. "I cannot cannot endure it! Where are you taking me? Where can you take me? Don't you see that there is no escape from this?" The Sylph rose and sank to the first long roll of the open sea. "When we reach Malduna " I began, but the words were only torture. "I cannot cannot go on. Take me back! to that island.
"But we shall reach Malduna that much sooner?" she queried. I nodded. "However, if you feel any uneasiness, I'll give the island a wide berth." I didn't like the idea of dragging her the bride of a week past that place with its unspeakable memories, if it should really distress her. Her eyes thanked me silently across the table.
Major Stanleigh and his wife deferred their departure for England until their niece should be properly married to Joyce. At Eleanor's wish, it was a very simple affair, and as Joyce's bride she was as eager to be off to his rubber-plantation in Malduna as he was to set her up there as mistress of his household.
Joyce was lucky, indeed favoured of the gods, to have touched the spring in this girl's heart which no other man could reach, and by the rarest of chances her coming out to this remote corner of the world. Lucky Joyce! I knew him slightly a straightforward young fellow, very simple and whole-souled, enthusiastically absorbed in developing his rubber lands in Malduna.
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