The crowning aspect of the incident, for her mind, was
the discovery that he and her indiscretion with him no longer mattered very
much. But she could see that Diane
watched her more closely now, and in a cat-like way. He loaded
the launch with a thousand pounds—all she could carry—and started home
immediately after sundown; but even then he lost from a hundred to a hundred
and fifty pounds before he had the stuff cached in McClintock's bamboo-covered
sawdust pit. “Certainly I was a little way off at the café, and she had a hat and veil
on, but I could have sworn that it was ‘Alcide. The door crashed back against the wall inside and both men hurtled into the
room, weapons at the ready—and stopped dead. The
fire—if there was any in him—never made headway against this insistant
demand to know the significance of these manifold inward agitations. Seems you were right about Valade. But Bess could
scarcely summon resolution enough to hazard the experiment; and it was only on
Jack's urgent intreaties, and even threats, that she could be prevailed on to trust
herself to the frail tenure of the rope he had prepared. She was herself conscious of a recklessness of spirits almost
hysterical. ”
“What do you want?” he asked, bluntly.
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