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But he spoke, the pale young priest, the dark-robed tradition, the tonsured vision of an age and a church that are passing. "Do you understand French, monsieur?" "A very little, monsieur." "A very little is more than my English," he said, yet he politely went the round of the pictures with them, and gave them the names of the painters between his crossings at the different altars.
For some moments after he had left, Jessie Staples stood leaning against the mantel, gazing thoughtfully into the fire; then she was startled by a step close beside her. She turned her head suddenly and saw a dark figure just leaving the room. "Stay!" she called out; and the figure hesitated on the threshold. "Come here!" and the dark-robed figure advanced slowly and stood before her.
"The Captain wants him," he said. Within an hour the morning siren would arouse the passengers. I was seated in a secluded corner of the deck, when George Prince came along. He went past me, a slight, somber, dark-robed figure. He had on high, thick boots. A hood was over his head, but as he saw me he pushed it back and dropped down beside me. For a moment he did not speak.
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