He hung over her—he and his loan to her and his connection with her and that terrible evening—a vague, disconcerting possibility of annoyance and exposure. He would have to return to Hong-Kong; and his trail would be picked up the moment he set foot on the Praya. “Very well,” he said, “I will go. He loves the Mendelians because he hates all the big names of the eighties and nineties. Gerald caught the look and slipped the weapon into his pocket. There isn’t a husband breathing, Annabel, who wouldn’t have blessed that pistol in your hands, and prayed God that the bullet might go straight. She knew now that he never would. “You’re self-taught, aren’t you, Lucy?” She looked around the table, all eyes upon her. When he was done she kissed his cheek tenderly. Deep silences came between them. For most of a long and fluctuating night she was fairly confident that she would find work; she knew herself to be strong, intelligent, and capable by the standards of most of the girls she knew. . The light was poor, so that she saw their gleaming faces dimly and indistinctly. CHAPTER XXVIII.
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