He sat alone in his brother’s old car
night after night that summer, staring blankly at the red
sky beyond the abandoned farmhouse where she had
once shown him her secrets. She had eaten little
or no tea, and her mid-day meal had been worse than nothing. ‘I
wonder why the females of my acquaintance have absolutely no respect
whatsoever for male authority?’
‘Ha!’ came from Hilary. "Do you affect ignorance that I am a condemned felon, and
can inherit nothing? But do not imagine that under any circumstances I would
accept your terms. ‘Now then,’ said the captain sternly, ‘I’m not going to ask you what you’re
doing here. Let me go,
Sir. Thus, you see, I've never hesitated and never shall hesitate to expose my life
where anything is to be gained. There came to
Spurlock the recurrence of the grim resolution of what he had set out to do: that
comradeship was all he might ever give this exquisite creature; for she was
exquisite, and in a way she dominated this picture of sea and sky and sail. Teenage boys never change, she thought to herself.
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