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Show from a sunlit peak. His world, the world he had known and believed in, had suddenly vanished out of his sight. All familiar landmarks were gone. And the utterly incredulous man was turned into a man ready to be credulous of any abomination. That the woman he had mentally set far above him should have done the unimaginable thing, should have allowed one of these brown men to -he ground his teeth together and on towards that rock like a camel. He was confused. himself He did not mentally accuse her definitely of what everybody would acknowledge to be the last infamy. He stopped short of that because it seemed to him just then that what he was sure of was enough. For he was sure. Even without Achmed's words-and he believed them, he somehow knew that they were true-he was sure. That morning, when he had reached the hotel, he had hurried up the stairs and gone ~t once to his wife's 1 room. He had found it empty, and as he stood there staring at the bed he knew a horrible thing, knew that he had expected to find it empty, had known almost that it would be empty. It is very strange that sometimes, if we are close to a person whom we cannot see, and of whose presence we are not otherwise aware, but with whom we are very intimate, we feel that person is near us. Something, .,. |
