[Black Caesar’s Clan by Albert Payson Terhune]@TWC D-Link bookBlack Caesar’s Clan CHAPTER IV 34/62
She seemed to bring light and youth and happiness indoors with her, and the armful of flowers she carried filled the dim hallway with perfume. Breakfast was a simple meal and soon eaten.
Brice brought to it only a moderate appetite, and was annoyed to find his thoughts centering themselves about the slender white-clad girl across the table from him, rather than upon his food or even upon his plan of campaign.
He replied in monosyllables to her pleasant table-talk, and when his eye chanced to meet hers he had an odd feeling of guilt. She was so pretty, so little, so young, so adorably friendly and innocent in her every look and word! Something very like a heartache began to manifest itself in Gavin Brice's supposedly immune breast.
And this annoyed him more than ever.
He told himself solemnly that this girl was none of the wonderful things she seemed to be, and that he was an idiot for feeling as he did. To shake free from his unwonted reverie he asked abruptly, as the meal ended: "Would you mind telling me why you drew a revolver on me last evening? You don't seem the kind of girl to adopt Wild West tactics and to carry a pistol around with you here in peaceful Florida.
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