She pulled, he rose to his feet. Pure luck! But for that bottle of whisky, nobody in the Hong-Kong Hotel would
have been able to identify the photograph; and at this hour James Boyle
O'Higgins would have been on the way to Yokohama, and the trail lost for ever. ’
‘Miss Melusine Charvill,’ he repeated, ‘is a convent-bred genteel girl, who is
in all probability the granddaughter of General Lord Charvill. There came to
Spurlock the recurrence of the grim resolution of what he had set out to do: that
comradeship was all he might ever give this exquisite creature; for she was
exquisite, and in a way she dominated this picture of sea and sky and sail. ’
‘There is no need for this,’ he ventured mildly, and lifted his finger to show his
own pistol was not cocked. ” He
said. We were expecting rather to find a male antagonist. ’
‘Melusine, sir,’ Gerald reminded the general, exchanging a frustrated glance
with Mrs Sindlesham. She almost laughed, but repressed her
smile lest it seem cruel.
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