" "Have you seen him?" asked Trenchard. Deep verandas ran around the bungalows, with bamboo drops which were always down in the daytime, fending off the treacherous sunshine. And the woman who showed this room was tall, with an understanding eye and the quiet manner of the well-trained servant. Hastening to the church, he entered it by the very door near which his first crime had been committed. The call of youth to youth, and we name it love for want of something better: a glamorous, evanescent thing "like snow upon the desert's dusty face, lighting a little hour or two, was gone. Three times he uttered a phrase: "A djinn in a blue-serge coat!" And each time he would follow it with a chuckle—the chuckle of a soul in damnation. At this juncture, Sir Cecil and his followers appeared at the threshold. But to confess about Gerald— no, a thousand times. She reminded him sometimes of the one holy and ineffable Madonna, at others of Berode, the great courtezan of her day, who had sent kings away from her doors, and had just announced her intention of ending her life in a convent. All emotions laid hold of him, but none could he stay long enough to analyze it. And of course! She had a brilliant idea. And now you must go back, take up your work and think all this over. It's hereditary, like de jigt, vat you call it—gout —haw! haw!" "If the child is destined to the gibbet, Van Galgebrok," replied the Master, joining in the laugh, "it'll never be choked by a footman's cravat, that's certain; but, in regard to going back empty-handed," continued he, altering his tone, and assuming a dignified air, "it's quite out of the question. "Thames would let himself in; and Jack generally finds an entrance through the backdoor or the shop-window, when he has been out at untimely hours.
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