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"The principle," writes Mr. Monck Mason, "upon which all these parachutes were constructed is the same, and consists simply of a flattened dome of silk or linen from 24 feet to 28 feet in diameter.
The soft opening of the door again a few seconds later banished her irritation. She turned with shining welcome in her look, and met Monck with outstretched hands. "You're in time," she said. He gripped her hands hard, but he scarcely looked at her. In a moment he was bending over the bed. "Stella girl! Stella!" he said. "Everard!"
"Oh, I say, I'm awfully sorry to have kept you waiting so long. That silly ass of a khit had cleared off and left us nothing to drink. Stella, we shall miss all the fun if we don't hurry up. Come on, Monck, old chap, say when!" He stopped at the table, and Stella turned from the window and moved forward. Her face was pale, but she was smiling. "Captain Monck is coming with us, Tommy," she said.
There was violence in the action, but it did not hold insolence. Sir Reginald leaning forward, was watching him intently. As the Colonel, with a word of excuse to himself, took up and opened the paper, he rose quietly and went up to Monck. Thin, wiry, grizzled, he stopped beside him. Major Burton retired behind the Colonel, realizing himself as unnecessary but too curious to withdraw altogether.
From Captain Monck. Tommy is ill very ill. Malaria again. He thinks I had better go to him." "Oh, my dear!" Mrs. Ralston's exclamation held dismay. Stella met it by holding out to her the message. "Tommy down with malaria," it said. "Condition serious. Come if you are able. Monck." Mrs. Ralston rose. She seemed to be more agitated than Stella. "I shall go too," she said. "No, dear, no!"
I might have been moved to ask her if she had remained free much longer." "I wish to Heaven you had!" said Tommy bluntly. And again Monck uttered his short, sardonic laugh. "Thank you, Tommy," he said.
Tessa's inquisitive eyes followed her. "She's going to cry," she said to Monck. Tommy turned sharply upon his friend with accusation in his glance, but the next instant he summoned Tessa as if she had been a terrier and walked off into the compound with the child capering at his side.
Nor was the resolve to abolish the awkward and indefensible system of a dual premiership less open to question. It may have given pain to Cartier, but it was a wise and necessary decision. Lord Monck, however, does not rank high in the list of talented men who have filled the office of governor-general. The post had gone a-begging when he accepted it in 1861.
Monck Mason, who had leased the King's Theatre in pursuance of a somewhat daring enterprise. A musical and theatrical enthusiast, and himself a composer, though without any experience in the practical knowledge of management, he projected novel and daring improvements, and aspired to produce opera on the most extensive and complete scale.
Ralston's little two-seater car shed dazzling beams of light through the dripping dark. She floundered blindly into a pool of water before she reached it, and was doubly startled by Monck lifting her bodily, without apology, out of the mire, and placing her on the seat. The beat of the rain upon the hood made her wonder if they could make any headway under it.
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