His Other Wife: A Novel — page 222: what you’re looking at

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214 MAN TO MAN. meanings of the shifting lights and shades upon the faces of those with whom he came in contact. As the mate advanced, Valasco threw up his saturnine face, and there shot a gleam strangely like defiance from the lurid darkness of his eyes, ‘‘T wonder what devilment he’s been up to zow?” thought Conway, stopping short, with his bushy head thrown a little to one side, like an eagle’s when it poises itself to reconnoiter. Then he said aloud: ‘‘Where’s the gentleman, cap’n?” ‘* He concluded to stay ashore,” replied the Minorcan, sulkily, and turning in his walk so that his back was toward the keen, shrewd countenance of the mate. ‘‘Eh? And how did the pretty little madam like be- ing taken on the island?” ‘“‘She didn’t go. The creole gave me his check on the Bank of for a thousand dollars, if I’d land him and take the girl on to the nearest port. Of course youl get half of the money.” ‘“What does she say to being deserted by her husband?” ‘‘She doesn’t know a word of it yet.” _ **Whatr” roared the mate, in a sudden burst of fury, that lit up his pale eyes with a sulphurous glare. ‘‘T say she doesn’t know it yet; and, what is more, I don't imagine she'll care. He’s no more her husband than you.are. I heard this much from her own lips.” He then related the scene and conversation that had transpired on deck the night when Faith upbraided Ver. . 3 -Ecomicbooks.¢o