’ He glanced about and saw his quarry holding court at one end of the vast mirrored chamber. On beholding the intruders, his fears changed to exultation, and he uttered a roar of satisfaction as he glared at them, which could only be likened to the cry of some savage denizen of the plains. There was, in fact, only one clear thought in his fevered brain: he had reached the hotel without falling down. Not a word was uttered for some time, nor any sound heard except the stilled sobs of the unfortunate mother. She saw the moonlit waters, the black shadow of the proa, the moon-fire that ran down the far edge of the bellying sail, the silent natives: no sound except the slapping of the outrigger and the low sibilant murmur of water falling away from the sides—and the beating of her heart. ’ ‘Are you mad?’ ‘Gerald is convinced there is a secret passage into the house,’ explained Roding. But he had been forewarned by his great-nephew. ‘What started you off, you madman,’ Roding told him frankly, as he set about tying his handkerchief around the wound, ‘was being born at all. I don’t know. “Lucy, that’s horrible. “But why is it preposterous?” asked Ann Veronica, and fiddled with a pipe on the mantel.
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