74/93 He looked at her, but did not see her. Then he began to say, in a dull voice, as if repeating a letter from dictation: "Owing to a leakage in the hold of this vessel, the sugar had set, and become converted into rock. It needed hacking--" He was quite unconscious. It had been his business to examine some such cargo of sugar in the Port of London. So I wired, and we fetched the doctor." "Will you have a fire made ?" Mrs.Morel tried to soothe her son, to keep him still. |