“It is part of the irony of life,” he said. "
"Two weeks in Hong-Kong," replied McClintock, "is more than enough. Nevertheless it was overwhelming. The key is in my trousers. He took her hands firmly in his and raised
them to his lips. . "
McClintock without further speech strode toward his bungalow; and half an hour
later Spurlock, passing, heard the piano-tuning key at work. He was tall, slender, and suave. My son went down after his death. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met
Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the
thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but
which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom
he had just left. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. At any rate, here I am, and here I shall be,
twenty thousand feet above all your poison-reeking cities, up where God’s wind
comes fresh from heaven, very near indeed to the untrodden snows. ’
‘Even if they militiamen weren’t there, miss,’ cautioned her cavalier, ‘you
couldn’t go marching into the house open like.
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