Part 14 (1/2)
two or three experiher than ye look”
”I thought ta with other people's watches was your specialty”
”What's a watch compared with the hu about springs and wheels, but it's different with drugs I expect you gave way to an unholy curiosity to see how they would work”
”Maybe there's so to find out how things act It's a reat difference betatching the effect o' a new oil on your piston-rings and seeing what happens when a patient ss your prescription I'll say this for ye: ye were docile”
”I've survived,” said Walthew ”Fro”
”And now you had better think about the future,” Grahame interposed
”Soet it ood At first it's difficult to tell which class one belongs to, but you have had a sharp attack There's soue-stricken invalid if you stick to us”
”How heavy is the risk?”
”nobody can tell you that, but it's to be reckoned with I understand that your father would take you back?”
”He'd be glad to do so, on his terhtfully
”Still, it's hard to admit that you're beaten, and I suspect the old ht have ive in and yet he'd be sorry if I did”
”Suppose you go hoave you?” Grahaested
”Then I'm inclined to think he'd welcome me on any terms I cared to make”
”Think it over well and leave us out of the question,” Grahame said
”You can't be left out,” Waltheered with a gleam in his eyes ”But I'll wait until I feel better I hted his cigarette, though the tobacco did not taste good Hardshi+p and toil had not daunted hiaht hi suddenly cut off, but to go home with permanently broken health or perhaps, as someti Since he took ht In the h to lie in the shade and feel his strength come back
A few days later they reached Havana, where they sold the dyewood and had arranged to meet Don Martin Sarmiento, whose affairs occasionally necessitated a visit to Cuba
One evening soon after his arrival, Grahame stood in the _patio_ of the Hotel International The International had been built by soo_, and still bore traces of ancient art
The basin in the courtyard with the stone lions guarding its empty fountain was Moorish, the balconies round the house had beautiful bronze balustrades cast three hundred years ago, and the pillars supporting the had, however, been lass, and wide steps, tiled in harsh colors, led to a lounge through which one entered the dining-rooed on the latest A cafe in the front of the building, and an archway at the back led to the uncovered end of the _patio_, where porters, pedlers, and the like iuests
Just then this space was occupied by a group of China the abruptly, he stood facing Evelyn Cliffe He iave hi of a surprise”
”That's what I felt,” he answered ”I hope the pleasure's also et my meals here and Walthew has a room He has been doith fever and isn't quite better yet”
”And I've just arrived with my father, who has sohed ”I nearly er and I enerally swing round in that alert manner when you hear soh I o barefooted in these countries, and the business I'ed in demands some caution”
”Then it's lucky you have self-control, because youa harmless friend by mistake”
”One does not mistake one's friends They're not too plentiful,” he replied, s