ng-room sofa. She fixed herself as firmly on this shelter as a limpet takes hold upon a rock. People were extremely kind and sympath

s a thorough Staines. He was never very kissable, and was anxious as soon as possible to get on to his own feet. At eight months he crawled rapidly across the carpet with a large musical-b

th of adventure, and howled dismally when they caressed him. He had more tolerance for his mother who se

him to climb over it twice a day for short int

at Winn had come in, and was very inconsiderately tramping to and fro in heavy boots. He seldom entered t

had been expecting it for some time. The report on Tibet wa

he wondered if he noticed how thin she was, and how transparent her eyelids were. Every fiber in her

aid. When he sp

murmured hardly

I've got something I want to talk over with you, an

id I'm almost too exhausted to talk, but I

he face of this responsiveness. She thought he looked rather odd. His eyes had a qu

ou want to talk about? Suspense of any k

t was only that I thought I'd be

a curious idea! I never have been able to understand how people can care to go there for sport. It seems to me rath

down and began to play with a paper-cutter on his knee. "As a matter of fact, I'm not," he wen

meet it. He had often been close to death-but he had never somehow thought of dying, he wasn't close to death now but at the end of something which might be very horrible there would be the long affair of dying. He hoped he would get through it all right and not make a fuss or

a big man, and the big man had said, "Davos, and don't lose any time about it." He hadn't said much else, only when Winn had remarked, "But, damn it all, you kn

her hot in the evenings, but after Travers had finished pitching into him Winn had written to Lionel and made his will and had rather won

ctly all right. I never

d the name of

d apologetically. He still waited.

inconvenient. I suppose I shall have to go back to my people for

r, unless, of course, you'd rather go to mine. I'm going down there to-morrow; I've written to tell them. I must

been nice to me; besides, they would be sure to teach baby how to swea

opped h

a for the present. I've been up before the board; they're

ordinary how she had been helped to avoid India. She couldn't think w

t he didn't say any more. At las

nk I'll just run up and

f course, though I don't believe it's at all painful-and by

ter all, he didn't go to the nursery; she heard h