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Matheson, buffeted and blinded by the thrash of the waves, just managed to drag Olive to the boat's side. The boatswain, Fraser by name, lent him a hand while he recuperated sufficiently to hoist Olive across the keel of the storm-tossed boat. "Where are the other boats?" he asked of Fraser, when he had recovered speech. The boatswain made a gesture of helplessness.
But a muscle had been badly torn; she wore a sling and suffered constant and often severe pain. Neither Alice Matheson, nor Lady Tonbridge who had rushed up to town ever heard her complain, except involuntarily, of this pain. Madeleine indeed believed that there was some atoning satisfaction in it, for Delia's wounded spirit.
Matheson described as a Busman's Holiday." At mention of Dr. Matheson's name Adderley visibly started. "So you know Matheson," he murmured. "I didn't know you had ever met him." Plainly to hide his confusion he stood up, and crossing the room drew my attention to a rather fine silver bowl of early Persian ware.
"But my owners wouldn't stand for the damages. They'd be equally liable, you know." "I'll guarantee them up to my last shilling. Get your editor on the trunk wire, and find out how much guarantee he'll want me to put up." Martin looked at him half in admiration and half in doubtfulness. "It would be a tremendous risk for me to take!" Matheson looked him square in the eye.
It was a mistake. We've both made mistakes, he and I. The unfortunate part is that the consequences don't fall on us. They fall on Mrs Matheson and yourself. You note that I place Mrs Matheson before yourself? That's deliberate." Again he paused, but Elaine did not make any comment. She guessed now what Larssen had come to say to her, and a shiver of fear went through her.
"As you will see," continued Matheson with the same studied formality cloaking the irony of his words, "you gain control." Larssen smiled tolerantly. "That's turned the trick right enough, but don't flatter yourself that you did it. If it hadn't been for a sheer accident that no man alive could foresee or prevent, I'd have won hands down. I haven't been beaten by you, and so I don't bear grudge.
The Chinese government also had invaded the field and was sending automobiles regularly to the Mongolian capital as a branch service of the Peking-Suiyuan railroad. In the previous September we had passed half a dozen of their motors in charge of a foreign representative of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. of Shanghai from whom the cars were purchased.
If the decision rested with Miss Matheson, which of these two men would she send to Capoo? Perhaps I looked rather too keenly into her face, for she turned suddenly away and drew the gauzy wrap she had thrown over her evening dress more closely round her throat, for the passages were cold.
I know sufficient of human nature to put two and two together. I shall certainly sue for a divorce!" "Against a blind girl?" "I don't care a straw whether she's blinded or not!" And then, for the first time in all that long interview, Matheson blazed into open anger. "You know human nature?" he cried. "By God, you know your own, and you measure every other woman by yourself!
He had most carefully and minutely arranged for the flotation of the company at the time when Matheson would be on the high seas and out of touch with London news. The "Starlight" was a well-found yacht, capable of weathering any North Sea gale. She had oil-engines to supplement her sailing power. She was provisioned for a month. Rough weather would not drive her back to harbour.
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