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Show we know not what, tells us so. We may believe that we reject the subtle information, but do we ever really reject it? Few people would have picked out Sir Claude Wyveme as a sensitive man. Nevertheless, in connection with his wife he could be very sensitive. That morning, as he sat on his mule face to face with the very composed African, who smiled at him halfsleepily, and sent pale- blue smoke out through his dilated nostrils, Sir Claude had felt suddenly as if his wife were near him. It was then that he had looked behind the Spahi, had made a movement as if to get off his mule. The Spahi had read him in that moment, had known that it was terribly critical. But he had kept his head. He had met Sir Claude's serenity. And he had stopped Claude from carrying out his intention as certainly as if he had seized and bound him to his mule by the exercise of superior strength. The African's calm had made Sir ~ Claude r~alize then the probable madness of h1s own supposition. He had - felt for the moment ashamed of him-self and had ridden away. Nevertheless, directly he had gone, again had come to him the horrible feeling that Kitty had been near to him when he was near to Benchati.lal. In vain he I combated this feeling. It remained with him all the way through the rJ1 I gorge and until he drew up before ~ f the inn door. Then he went upstairs and saw the empty room. And then it seemed to him that he knew - knew the incredible, the impossible. Yet he did not go back to the Spahi. Kitty had thought that he could not be sub.•t.l e; anything else, |
