A medley of motives warred in her, and it was certainly not one of the least of these that she knew herself to be passionately in love with Capes; at moments she had a giddy intimation that he was beginning to feel keenly interested in her. Presently repellance grew under the frozen mask of astonishment and dissipated it. " Upon which, with an assurance that he would not do so, the attendant departed. Why not? Quite willing. ’ ‘Eh?’ Almost Melusine betrayed herself at his startled look. " "Pearls!" "Sounds romantic, eh? Well, forty years ago the pearl game hereabouts was romantic; but there's only one real pearl region left—the Persian Gulf. A beachcomber in embryo, and she had lent a hand through habit as much as through pity. His natal burr was always in evidence when he was sentimentally affected. Sometimes—a lonely forlorn child—she had gone to him and put her arms around his neck. His face, as he looked down where his hand sought for a weapon concealed in her petticoat, was so close that she could see only the line of his firm jaw, the drag of his powdered hair that drew it into the military pigtail, and the black ribbon that adorned it. Her features were still slightly marked by the disorder alluded to in the description of her as a child,—but that was the only drawback to her beauty.
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