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Very clever!" said the Sénéchal, through his pipe. "Where does that leave us, then?" "We must have a decoy, of course." "H'm! You'll not get any Sark man to act as decoy to the devil. Besides, they would talk, and that would upset the whole thing." "What about one of your men, Gard?"
His homely torch did no more than faintly illumine the rock he sat on and those close at hand, and cast a gigantic uncouth shadow of himself on the rough wall behind. All beyond was solid darkness, blacker even than a black Sark night. He sat wondering vaguely if any before him had penetrated to that strange place. It was odd and uncanny to feel that his eyes were the very first to look upon it.
I am no great unlover of a storm in the right circumstances. There is a long strath between Nordlingen and Donauworth of Bavaria, where once we amazed our foreign allies by setting out, bare to the kilt and sark, in threshing hail, running for miles in the pelt of it out of the sheer content of encounter and perhaps a flagon or two of wine.
"So I am, and you're my keeper, though it's supposed to be the other way about. The air of Sark has got into my head. What a quaint bonnet that old lady has! I wonder what colour it was in its infancy. Good-morning, ma'am! Isn't this a glorious day?" And old Madame Hamon murmured a word and passed hastily on lest worse should befall. "Hennie, be sensible for a minute or two.
There is a storm at hand; take my word for it, and do not venture across to Sark to-day." "And what is to become of the poor woman?" I remonstrated. "Tardif says she has been suffering the pain of a broken limb these twenty-four hours. It would be my duty to go even if the storm were here, unless the risk was exceedingly great.
But he was a Sark man, and a farmer at that, and knew little and cared less, of the habits of Little Sark. And the rest, falling to his idea, streamed after him, for that which lay under the cliff could only be gotten out by boat. So to the Creux, panting the news as he went.
"He's to have my room and I'm coming up into the loft. I shall take the dark end, and I've put up a curtain across." "Shoo! We'll hear enough about the mines now," and they crept out behind a gorse bush, and went off across the common towards the clump of wind-whipped trees inside which the houses of Little Sark clustered for companionship and shelter from the south-west gales.
"Ever been to Sark, Graeme?" he asked. "Sark? No. Let me see " "Channel Islands. You go across from Guernsey. If ever you want relief from your fellows to finish a book, or to start one, or just to grizzle and find yourself try Sark. It's the most wonderful little place, and it's amazing how few people know it."
Mallinson made up his mind to call upon Fielding. He called on the Sunday morning, and Fielding blandly related to him his history of Sark. Having worked Mallinson to a sufficiently amusing pitch of indignation, and having hinted his moral that the subjugation of Miss Le Mesurier would be effected only by the raider, Fielding complacently dismissed him and repaired to Beaufort Gardens for lunch.
Olivia had told me she had no friends at all except Tardif and me; and if the gossip of the Sark people drove her from the shelter of his roof, I should be her only resource; and I believed she would come frankly to me for help. "Olivia quite understands about my engagement to you," I said. "I told her at once that we were going to be married, and that I hoped she would find a friend in you."
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