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What were you talking about?" demanded a voice in Ryder's ear, and he found Jinny Jeffries at his side, her bright gray eyes pouncing upon him with curiosity. "Oh, I wished her joy native phrases that sort of thing," he answered mechanically as they drew back into an embrasure of the mashrubiyeh that formed one side of the great room. "But you were talking forever.
He gave Shirley a quick, questioning look. She nodded affirmatively. Ryder, who had seen nothing of this by-play, said with a sneer: "Surely you didn't come here to-night to tell me this?" "No, sir, I did not." He took from his pocket two letters the two which Shirley had sent him and held them out for Ryder's inspection.
"Never despise your enemy" is an old lesson, but it has to be learnt afresh, year after year, by every nation that is warlike and brave. Our losses were also due to the isolation of Captain Ryder's company, to extricate which the whole force had to wait till overtaken by darkness.
After that she was in some dreadful black-birding business in a far quarter of the South Pacific; and after that her name changed finally to the Glarus poached seals for a syndicate of Dutchmen who lived in Tacoma, and who afterward built a club-house out of what she earned. And after that we got her. We got her, I say, through Ryder's South Pacific Exploitation Company.
Oh, I was just picnicin', as you might say, along with a little girl, daughter of a neighbor of mine. She wanted to see where the soldiers was goin' to fly, so I borrowed Perez Ryder's power dory and we came over. 'Twas gettin' along dinner time and I built a fire so as to cook. . . . My soul!" with a gasp of consternation, "I forgot all about that chowder. And now it's got stone cold.
'The troopers called him Solo. I have heard of a notorious gold robber of that name. Mrs. Macdougal says a new shepherd called Brummy recognised him. She gave Done a concise account of the arrest and Ryder's escape. 'That is Wallaroo you are riding, she said in conclusion, 'and Mr. Macdougal is furious over his loss. I believe it was he who shot Mr. Ryder. 'If Ryder dies, I'll kill Macdougal!
The girls' school, a big old red house, standing back from the road at the quietest end of the town, was kept by two daughters of a former clergyman, well educated and conscientious women, whom she esteemed highly, and who gave a real good grounding to all who came under their hands, going on the opposite principle to Mr. Ryder's and trying to supply that which the homes lacked.
McLean knew slightly Tewfick Pasha. He knew supremely the inviolable seclusion of a daughter of such a household. He knew the utter impossibility of any man's speech with her. Yet here was Ryder telling him Ryder's telling him was a sketchy performance. He mentioned the girl's appearance at the masquerade and their acquaintance. He touched lightly upon her attempted flight and his pursuit.
'No. She repeated the word quite mechanically. 'No, no! Done returned to his brother. He lifted the body into the shade, and composed the limbs, and then seated himself and gave his mind over to bitter reflection. Ryder's face exerted a strong influence upon him. In death it had assumed a delicacy almost effeminate. It was the face of a saint and an ascetic.
At that instant Shirley gave a little cry, which in vain she tried to suppress. Ryder looked up. "What's the matter?" he demanded startled. "Nothing nothing!" she replied in a hoarse whisper. "I pricked myself with a pin. Don't mind me." She had just come across her father's missing letters, which had got mixed up, evidently without Ryder's knowledge, in the mass of papers he had handed her.
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