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Jacket whistled heroically until he was out of O'Reilly's hearing, then his bearing changed. His mouth drew down, and moisture came into his eyes. He rubbed a grimy hand over his stomach, murmuring, faintly: "Cristo! It is hard to be a man when you smell things cooking!" Rosa Varona did not die.
"Seven, eight, nine, ten." The fold of lace began to be taut. Drawing it toward her, she started on once more on that endless journey of a few inches. Thank heaven, the light in O'Reilly's bedroom had been switched off. The man must have given up the chase, and gone back to the sitting room. For the present she was safe from him. But what a queer word "safe" was, just then.
These had rotted; they came apart easily in O'Reilly's fingers, displaying a miscellaneous assortment of unset gems some of them at first sight looked like drops of blood, others like drops of purest water. They were the rubies and the diamonds which had brought Isabel to her death. O'Reilly waited to see no more. Candle in hand, he crept out into the well to apprise Rosa of the truth.
Judson, it seemed, had a better understanding of artillery than of women; he pondered O'Reilly's statement seriously, and his face clouded. "Some sickly fellow. Some fellow like Branch, eh?" After a moment he continued, more hopefully: "Well, it won't be HIM; he'll soon be dead. There's some consolation in that. I could almost "
O'Reilly and his assistants were accustomed to close the haggle with a beautiful formula: 'To you, they said, with confidential smiles and flattering emphasis on the pronoun 'to you the price will be one and a penny; but, really, there will be no profit on the sale. Occasionally with timid and inexperienced customers O'Reilly's method proved its value.
The question came to him faintly, but it was so in tune with his unhappy mood that it affected him strangely. He found that his eyes were blurring and that an aching lump had risen into his throat. This was the breaking-point. O'Reilly's hearing, too, was going wrong, for he imagined that some one whispered his name. God!
If the woman for whose sake you've done this is worthy of her friend, why, I'll be on her side from this night on." "Thank you," said Clo, meekly. She was very tired, but vitality flowed through her newly at O'Reilly's words and look. "I don't deserve such a compliment, but she deserves everything. If I've behaved badly to you, it was for her." "I know," said O'Reilly.
She had written nothing to waken suspicion; and as no house, no street, was mentioned, there need be no dread of discovery for guilty consciences. Beverley judged that O'Reilly's name as well as Roger's might be known to someone near to Clo. Evidently she was afraid to send a letter to Justin O'Reilly. But the end of the postscript was amazing. O'Reilly had been kind to Clo!
If her feet slipped from the coping, she would have no strength for the effort of climbing in at the window. She would hang for a minute and then drop. "The papers," she reminded herself, for a mental tonic. "They're so nearly safe now. Brace up, Clo! A minute more and you'll be out of trouble." The room beyond was, like O'Reilly's, unlighted.
O'Reilly's voice was husky and low as he said: "I daren't trust myself. I'm afraid. She's so young, so sweet, so beautiful and these are war-times. I'm almost afraid to think " Norine saw her companion's cheeks blanch slowly, saw his laughing eyes grow grave, saw the muscular brown hand upon the rail tighten until the knuckles were white; impulsively she laid her palm over his.
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