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How dare Pros Passmore's grandniece carry a bright head so high, and flash such glances of liquid fire at her questioner? Shade looked sidewise sometimes at his companion as he asked the news of their mutual friends, and she answered.
For some reason which she would herself have been at a loss to explain, she hastened to detail to this chance-met stranger the exact appearance and nature of Pros Passmore's injuries, her listener nodding his head at this or that point; making some comment or inquiry at another.
A kerosene lamp without a chimney smoked and flared on the table, filling the room with evil odours. Pros Passmore's white face thrown up against the lounge cushion was the only quiet, dignified object in sight. "Mandy," said Johnnie, catching the Meacham woman by the elbow as she passed her bearing a small kerosene can, "you go up to my room and get the good lamp I have there.
And in this room I say it once again. Tell me all about my other son, that I may honor him as I honor you." And then, with the iron nerve which good women have, she made him give her every detail of Lucy Passmore's story and of all which had happened from the day of their sailing to that luckless night at Guayra.
Your connection with Scotland Yard ended, I believe, some time ago. You are free to speak or to keep silence. Do one or the other. Tell me what you think, and I will tell you what I know. That surely will be a fair exchange. You shall have my facts for your surmises." Passmore's thin lips curled into a smile. "You know that I have left Scotland Yard then, sir?" "Quite well!
"He certainly didn't lose any time in getting away, did he?" and the shipowner's son grinned broadly. "He had a guilty conscience," was Mr. Passmore's comment. "Mr. Fordham, I think you can congratulate yourself that he has left." "I think so myself, sir," replied the old gentleman. He looked kindly at Dave and his chums. "It looks to me as if you had saved me from being swindled," he continued.
"Your uncle is as sane as anybody he just doesn't remember anything that happened from the time he fell down the steps and slipped that atlas vertebra a little bit on one side." Again Pros Passmore's fingers sought the back of his collar. "Looks like somebody has been tryin' to wring my neck, same as a chicken's," he said meditatively.
"Pros Passmore's goin' to hunt that there silver mine till he finds another hole in the ground about six feet long and six feet deep that's what he's a-goin' to do." The hasty supper was well under way now. Mrs. Bence brought the last of the hot bread, and shuffled into a seat. The old man at the head of the board returned to his feeding, but with somewhat moderated voracity.
And so ended Lucy Passmore's story. And if Amyas Leigh, after he had heard it, vowed afresh to give no quarter to Spaniards wherever he should find them, who can wonder, even if they blame? "All precious things, discover'd late, To them who seek them issue forth; For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth." The Sleeping Beauty.
The sudden, violent check shooting along at the speed they were, it amounted almost to a stoppage gave the girl a sense of power. If she could do that, they were fairly safe. With the relief, her brain cleared; she was able to study the machine with some calmness. Gray could not help her out of the side of her eye she could see where he lay inert and senseless in Passmore's hold.
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