I'll see Eglington. He must
make no fuss. He thinks she has gone to Hamley, so the butler says.
There, it's all clear. Your work is cut out, Betty, and I know you will
do it as no one else can."
"Oh, Windlehurst," she answered, with a hand clutching at his arm, "if we
fail, it will kill me."
"If she fails, it will kill her," he answered, "and she is very young.
What is in her mind, who can tell? But she thinks she can help Claridge
somehow. We must save her, Betty."
"I used to think you had no real feeling, Windlehurst. You didn't show
it," she said in a low voice. "Ah, that was because you had too much," he
answered. "I had to wait till you had less." He took out his watch.
THE WEAVERS
By Gilbert Parker
BOOK VI.
XL. HYLDA SEEKS NAHOUM
XLI. IN THE LAND OF SHINAR
XLII. THE LOOM OF DESTINY
CHAPTER XL
HYLDA SEEKS NAHOUM
It was as though she had gone to sleep the night before, and waked again
upon this scene unchanged, brilliant, full of colour, a chaos of
decoration--confluences of noisy, garish streams of life, eddies of petty
labour.
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