14/23 "You'd never think that the same blood ran in their veins, would you? Bessie's the youngest, you see--she's just twenty, and Jess is twenty-three. Lord, to think that it is twenty-three years since that girl was born! And theirs is a queer story too." "Indeed ?" said his listener interrogatively. I am sure, Captain Niel, that it will go no further. You see I was born in England, yes, and well-born too. |