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Updated: June 11, 2025
Several hours later, Leonard learned that the whole German gunfire had been focussed for several minutes on the Panther. But now that gray, smoke-wreathed cruiser rushed on indomitably, flanked by her thundering consorts. The half-naked men on the Panther's decks looked curiously small in their huge rushing fortress.
Below them, what seemed to be the phantasm of a painted city, a wilderness of housetops, of smoke-wreathed spires and chimneys, stretched away to a murky, blood-red horizon. Even as they stood there, a deeper color stained the sky, an angry sun began to sink into the piled up masses of thick, vaporous clouds. The girl watched with an air of sullen yet absorbed interest.
What have I ? Impudent of face! At this very moment thou holdest one of my shillings in thy hand." "Take it!" said Esther. And threw the coin passionately to the floor, where it rolled about pleasantly for a terrible minute of human silence. The smoke-wreathed card-players looked up at last. "Eh? Eh? What's this, my little girl." said Michael genially. "What makes you so naughty?"
He could only realize that Medaine Robinette now knew the story. That Medaine Robinette had heard him accused without a single statement given in his own behalf; that Medaine, the girl of his smoke-wreathed dreams, now fully and thoroughly believed him a murderer! Dully Houston turned back to the sheriff and to the goggle-eyed Ba'tiste, trying to fathom it all.
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