They wrapped it in a rich cloak Amahhad given
Anthony.
Then he hesitated as if he had changed his mind. He
was gliding down a steep slope in the dark with sickening speed. They wrapped it in
a rich cloak Amahhad given Anthony.
His head sunk again and helooked down through his
hair, hanging.
I LIVE, he cried with a triumphant
voice.
They stayed in the valley all night and built great
fires to keepthe beasts off.
I have comemyself this time to be sure you hear the
truth. Amah rose suddenly and facing Anthony laid his hands on hisshoulders.
Furthermore, thecargo of children had been sold at a considerable profit. The
tropical dawn came with asingle stride. Already it was enveloped in advancing
shade.
With a TREMENDOUS impulse he shot himself upward
again throughthe dark, cold water.
Yourfactor when he is drunk is the kind of a man
that makes the knifeitch to go home, ugh! Thetemptation to become a mere ruthless
doer for the sake of doing hadbeen passed. A hand came down out of the darkness
andclamped itself over his mouth. After a while acloud seemed to be passing across
the top of his mind. The chair, that leather-padded monument of romance,would have
to go.
Ihave been living on La Fortuna myself for a month
past.
He tore open thesmall scroll of native matting.
They brought the earth down over the front. He wound his arms aroundthis strong
impalpable thing more precious to him than a dyingchild. But there is also the
playwithin the play. Very deep in him, just at the verge of sleep, lay the images
whichexpressed life to him.
I have comemyself this time to be sure you hear the
truth.
Yet theycould always be seen again when the depths
of his being werestirred.
Now he is going to live in a cottage in Chelsea
with his niece andher two yellow-haired orphans.