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Updated: June 26, 2025
They seized hold of Nina's long curls to kill her; but Robert clung to the old chief's knees, and, though he didn't think much of girls or women, Bald Eagle said, "She shall live to please the boy." The Indians lowered their tomahawks, for they didn't dare to disobey Bald Eagle, and led Nina and Robert out of the house, which had been set on fire and was beginning to burn.
And certain it was that no time must be lost in penetrating below the heart of the volcano; already the most protected of the many ramifications of Nina's Hive were being pervaded by a cold that was insufferable. It was an acknowledged impossibility to get access to the crater by the exterior declivities of the mountain-side; they were far too steep and too slippery to afford a foothold.
And Archie marched into the house in Nina's wake. In the hall Wingarde touched his shoulder. "Come into the smoking-room!" he said quietly. "I want to know what you mean," said Archie. He stood up very straight, with the summer sunlight full in his face, and confronted Nina's husband without a hint of dismay in his bearing. Wingarde looked at him with a very faint smile on his grim lips.
She gave a little shiver. "Oh, you do look ill!... Everything's going wrong together, isn't it?" And with that she suddenly left me, hurrying away from me, leaving me miserable and apprehensive of some great trouble in store for all of us. It is impossible to explain how disturbed I was by Nina's news. Semyonov living in the flat!
We patronised it and the Vachette, the Source, the Ecoles, the Souris, indifferently. Or we would sometimes spend our evenings in Nina's rooms.
"I hope Hugh didn't hurt Nina's feelings," worried Rosemary as she and Aunt Trudy went upstairs. "She doesn't have to go to bed at nine o'clock and she thinks it is queer that I do. I'm afraid she will call Hugh cross." "Oh, I don't believe she will," said Aunt Trudy comfortably. "She seemed to me a nice little girl and you need plenty of young friends, darling."
A quarter of an hour later, the visitors to the Hansa had reassembled in the common hall of Nina's Hive. "Now, gentlemen, we can proceed," said the professor. "May I request that this table may be cleared?" Ben Zoof removed the various articles that were lying on the table, and the coins which had just been borrowed from the Jew were placed upon it in three piles, according to their value.
He saw that her lip was quivering painfully. She did not attempt to speak. Archie turned to go. But almost instantly Wingarde's voice arrested him. "I can give you a seat in the car if you wish," he said. He spoke with less sternness, but his face had not altered. Archie stopped. Again for Nina's sake he choked back his wrath and accepted the churlishly proffered amendment.
At Nina's suggestion they stopped at a tea shop. No sooner were they seated at a little table when they were joined by the Duchess Astarte. The duchess had most graceful manners, but she talked to the princess across Nina, and about her, as though she were an article of furniture, or at least a small child who could not understand what was said. She spoke frankly of Nina's suitors.
And he had warm feeling of romance-love for all this that he was finding. He saw all his enterprise milk-white, rose-bright. And his pride was touched that the Indian who had seemed contented had not truly been so, and that the Nina's men had disobeyed strict commands for friendliness. He would restore that content if possible, and he would have no more unordered chasing of canoes.
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