3/12 I'm forty-five and"-- he looked drearily into the younger man's eyes--"burnt out," he said with his mirthless laugh--"and still drenching the embers with the same stuff that set 'em ablaze.... My compliments to your aunt." At the gangway the younger man bade adieu to Malcourt and Portlaw, laughing as the latter indignantly requested to know why Hamil wasted his time attending to business. |