Chapter XVI THE DISCOMFITURE OF SIR JOHN Sir John looked from one to the other of the two sisters. This was in Texas. It pained Lucy to see Mike eating so sparely. If I could but——” To escape from her thoughts she began to undress, humming a light tune to herself, though her eyes were hot with unshed tears, and the sobs kept rising in her throat. \" Lucy replied sardonically. The Wastrel wiped the blood from his forehead. " "You don't have to. But I mustn't think of these things, or I shall grow mad. The evening breeze came; the bamboo shades on the veranda clicked and rasped; the loose edges of the manuscript curled. Where her husband saw only two youngsters in the mating mood, she felt that tragedy in some phase lurked in this room—if only in the loneliness of these two, without kith or kin apparently, thousands of miles from home. Sheppard, whose distress at the consumption of the provisions had been somewhat allayed by the anticipation of the intruder's departure after he had satisfied his appetite, was now terrified in the extreme by seeing a light approach, and hearing footsteps on the stairs. Most of the vessels lying in the river were driven from their moorings, dashed tumultuously against each other, or blown ashore.
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