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Updated: May 28, 2025
But the summer day ripened to noon, and waned until the sun all but touched the crest of Captain's Hill, before the young man gave over the work at which he had labored like a Titan all day long, and going down to the brook at a point where the captain and he had dug a semicircular basin and paved it about with white sea-pebbles by way of a lavatory, he made his toilet, chiefly by throwing the clear cool water in bucketfuls over his head and neck, and then rubbing himself with a coarse towel until the crisp hair curled vivaciously, and the fair skin glowed out from under its coat of sunbrown in strong relief to the white teeth and blue eyes that made the face so comely in its strength.
Even then the wavering balance of chance might cast the issue in his favor. He could only wait, with ready rifle, with the light of battle lowering in his eyes. Of one thing at least he was certain before they conquered him he would levy a terrible toll. He glanced back at Iris. Her face was pale beneath its mask of sunbrown.
And when Louis Symington saw her coming alone, only the sunbrown on his face concealed the sudden rush of blood from it to his heart. "The professor could not come," she said hurriedly, "so he made me come without him; that is I mean " And she stopped, confused.
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