In red and gold . ute. He looked irresolutely down at the lustrous jewelsin his hand. You had these sewed in your skirt. There mustbe more there. Are you proposing to search me ? No—but His black youth was stabbing now, viciously, at his boyishly sensitive heart; but still, in adegree, he met it. Im going to Mr. Doane. I dontcare what happens to me. He even moved a soft step toward the door; butpaused, lingered, watching her. For she was rum-maging among the covers of her bed. He caught abrief glimpse of a hand-bag that she meant him not tosee. She took from a bottle two green tablets. Thenshe
In red and gold . ute. He looked irresolutely down at the lustrous jewelsin his hand. You had these sewed in your skirt. There mustbe more there. Are you proposing to search me ? No—but His black youth was stabbing now, viciously, at his boyishly sensitive heart; but still, in adegree, he met it. Im going to Mr. Doane. I dontcare what happens to me. He even moved a soft step toward the door; butpaused, lingered, watching her. For she was rum-maging among the covers of her bed. He caught abrief glimpse of a hand-bag that she meant him not tosee. She took from a bottle two green tablets. Thenshe faced him. To the startled question of his eyes she replied:Theyre corrosive sublimate. I shall take them nowunless you—give me the pearls. If you want to havemy death on your hands, take them to Mr. its only fair to tell you that if you do it—if youmix in this business—your own life wont be wortha nickel. Theyll get you, and theyll get the caught in a bigger game than you can AT THE HOUR OF THE TIGER 283 Get out, while you can—as the low swift words cameshe reached out and took the pearls from his nervelesshand—and Ill protect you. You can have yourpretty Manchu girl. You can ride around in a rick-shaw and look at old temples and buy dont mix in affairs that dont concern you. I—he was pressing- a hand to a white forehead—Ive got to think it over. Remember this, too—she laid a hand on his arm—you could never fasten anything on me. The proofdoesnt exist. Nobody can identify unmounted pearls. As a matter of fact I got these during a brief but to her perverse imagination an intensely pleasingmoment she closed her eyes and lived again throughthat strange scene on the steps of the pavilion; againin vivid fancy rolled over the inert body that had beenTex Connor, took the amazing cape of pearls from hisshirt and rolled the body heavily .I got thesefrom a man I knew—an old friend. Just mind yourown business
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