Stopping before each
door, they took up the plates of the locks, examined the ponderous bolts, and
were struck with the utmost astonishment at what they beheld. ’
Her flesh crept. "We have had a sad loss, my dear Winifred," he began,—"for I must use the
privilege of an old friend, and address you by that familiar name,—we have had
a sad loss in the death of your lamented parent, whose memory I shall for ever
revere. It was not quite the search I intended,’ he said with a touch of selfmockery as he released her, ‘but success comes in all sorts of unexpected ways. She had,
by the magic of recollection, set the picture of the typhoon between herself and
her table companions: the terrible rollers thundering on the white shore, the
deafening bellow of the wind, the bending and snapping palms, the thatches of
the native huts scattering inland, the blur of sand dust, and those two outcasts
defying the elements. And how much I owe
you, too, dearest Winifred, for your kindness and attention. The cook tried to ply her with spiced meat
and fish soup. For a long time he stared at the empty doorway. “Do you need me to tell you? You have tasted the luxury of power. ‘I did not think so. "My sight is failing
me. ’
He endured the inevitable scold with patience, saluted Mrs Chalkney’s faded
cheek, and went off to endure the necessary delay with what patience he could
muster. It might be supposed that these
articles, when thrust together into the bag, would have jingled; but these skilful
practitioners managed matters so well that no noise was made.
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