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"I do not understand you," she faltered. "You had grounds for your suspicions of Thalassa reasonable grounds. He must have admitted your niece into the house last night, you know. I must get it out of him." She gave a start, for she saw now where his drift of questions was taking them.
It was like questioning a head on an old Roman coin, so expressionless was Thalassa's face as he delivered himself of these replies. But the lawyer had the feeling that Thalassa was deriving a certain grim satisfaction from his questioner's perplexity, and he dismissed him somewhat angrily.
During the voyage to Sydney, Robert Turold used to talk to him on deck at nights after Remington had gone to his bunk. It was in these solitary deck tramps under glittering stars that Thalassa first heard from the other's lips of the Turrald title: the title for which the fortune he was seeking was merely a stepping stone the means to obtain it.
Barrant, with a slight glance at the motionless figure of Thalassa, led the way into the front room. He closed the door before he spoke. "Doctor," he said, "have you told anybody about those marks on Robert Turold's arm?" "I have not," said the doctor promptly, looking up. "Why do you ask?" His glance carried conviction, and interrogation also.
'Twas they decided the other chap, and next morning we set out for Capetown. From there we got passages in a cargo boat for Sydney." Charles found it easier to visualize this picture than the former. The departure of the three upon such a wild romantic venture had in its elements all the audacity, greed, and splendour of youth, and he also was young. Thalassa went on with his story.
I was standing there, thinking ... waiting, when the front door opened, and you and Thalassa came out. I was surprised to see you, but it seemed to me an opportunity a final chance to speak to you again. I started after you, Sisily, once more to ask you to consider my love for you, but you and Thalassa were swallowed up in the darkness of the moors before I could reach you.
Again, Thalassa met him with answering look, but remained mute. "Thalassa" Barrant's voice remained persuasive, but to an ear attuned to shades, there was a note of menace underlying its softness "you know there was somebody else here that night." "Somebody? Who?" "Your master's daughter Miss Sisily Turold." Barrant brought it out sharply and angrily. Thalassa turned a cold glance on him.
Nevertheless, if we bear in mind the Greek forms Thalassa and Thalatta, we may fairly suppose that the Kowrarega word for two, or quassur, is the same word with the Head of Australian Bight kootera, the Parnkalla kuttara, and the Western Australian kardura, having the same meaning.
"But you had another reason a reason of your own," said Charles, turning quickly to regard him. "You said so yourself." "If I had I've forgotten what it was," said Thalassa with a black look. "You cannot have forgotten!" cried Charles. "What was it?" Hope sprang up in his heart again like a warm flame as he detected something confused and irresolute in the other's attitude.
Pendleton's suspicion of Thalassa rested on nothing more substantial than feminine prejudice, an unreasoning impulse of dislike which would leave few men alive if it always carried capital punishment in its train. The substitution of Sisily for Thalassa provided a convincing motive for murder.
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