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For some moments Lanyard could see nothing more. The mirthless chuckle of the lieutenant sounded at his elbow. "So the good Herr Doctor thought he had better come up for air, eh? My friend, the very dead might envy you the sincerity of your slumbers. We have been half an hour on the surface, with all this uproar and you are only just wakened!" "Half an hour?" Lanyard repeated thoughtfully.
"Good-bye," says he, holding out his hand. "You will come soon again?" demands she, laying her own in it. "Next week perhaps." "Not till then? I shall be dead then," says she, with a rather mirthless laugh this time. "Do you know that you and Aunt Jane are the only two people in all London whom I know?" "That is terrible," says he, quite sincerely. "Yes. Isn't it?" "But soon you will know people.
"Have you no pity for such love as mine, Mollie? Is your heart made of stone, that all my devotion can not melt it?" To his horror, she broke into a discordant, mirthless laugh. "His devotion! He tears me away from my friends, he locks me up in a dungeon until he drives me mad! His devotion!" She laughed hysterically again. "It seems harsh, Mollie, but it is not meant in harshness.
No other living thing was in sight except the slim, blue dragon-flies, ceaselessly darting among the beach-grapes; nothing else stirred except those two figures on the dunes, moving slowly, heads bent as though considering the advisability of every step in the breaking sands. There was a fixed smile on the girl's lips, but her eyes were mirthless, almost vacant.
It was an unpleasant sound the mirthless mirth of these men on the long white line of the Narkarra Road. There were no strangers in Kashima, or they might have thought that captivity within the Dosehri hills had driven half the European population mad. The laughter ended abruptly, and Kurrell was the first to speak. 'Well, what are you going to do? Boulte looked up the road, and at the hills.
Here he had lived six happy months; then ill-fortune singled him out for a plaything. He laughed a bitter, mirthless laugh. The night was perfectly still and the myriad sparks from the flames rose straight to heaven. "There 's one good thing about it all," he mused, "and that is that I kept neglecting to insure the house and furniture when I went to Little Rock.
He watched it all until the ruffle of drums at the grave told that the body was being lowered four ruffles for an admiral. As the people began to disperse and the church bell ceased tolling, Dormy turned to another bell at his elbow, and set it ringing to call the Royal Court together. Sharp, mirthless, and acrid it rang: Chicane chicane! Chicane chicane! Chicane chicane!
Van took the sack in his hand, examined it silently, then glanced as before at his papers. "Salted by that lump of a Briggs!" His lip was curved in a mirthless smile. "I guess I've got it in the neck all right. These last samples tell the real story." He slapped the papers across his hand, then tore them up in tiny bits and threw them on the floor." "Sorry, old man," said the assayer, as before.
He dropped her hands, and she felt of the fingers where he had gripped them. She veiled the quick, savage leap in her eyes by drooping the lids. "You love Rosalind Benham," she said, quietly, looking at him with a mirthless smile. He started, and her lips grew a trifle stiff. "You poor boy!" "Why the pity?" he said grimly. "Because she doesn't care for you, Trev.
Now that, apparently, I have lost her irrevocably, I will tell you that you do not love her as I do. Have I not watched you? Did she die to-day, you would go on to-morrow with your Duty Duty Duty ! For me, I would kill myself on her grave. Where you and I were rivals and enemies, now we are enemies. Look out for me, Richard Cleave!" He began to laugh, a broken and mirthless sound.
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