”
“Every one hasn’t the Gift. ’
‘What?’
‘Neat little toy. ”
She smiled at him, an understanding smile, but her words defied him. No one spoke, and she
was impelled to flounder on. “Has he accused any one yet?”
“Not yet,” he answered. On beholding the intruders, his fears
changed to exultation, and he uttered a roar of satisfaction as he glared at them,
which could only be likened to the cry of some savage denizen of the plains. She had come across the
wicked South Seas which were still infested with cannibals; she had seen
drunkenness and called men beachcombers; who was this moment as innocent as
a babe, and in the next uttered some bitter wisdom it had taken a thousand years
of philosophy to evolve. ‘Yes, very rude,’ agreed the major. He did not know—and probably never would unless
she told him—that it was very easy (and comfortable for a woman) to fall into
slatternly ways in this latitude. ‘I don’t want that girl running her head into
any more danger. The vast ironic humour of it: he was starting on his honeymoon!
CHAPTER XIX
Meanwhile the doctor, upon returning to his office, found Ah Cum in the waiting
room.
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