12/14 What could have led her to suspect that they had come together ?" "She was firmly persuaded, William, that they _would_ come together when the Expedition left England. And she had read in books of Arctic travel, of men left behind by their comrades on the march, and of men adrift on ice-bergs. With her mind full of these images and forebodings, she saw Frank and Wardour (or dreamed of them) in one of her attacks of trance. She warned Frank that Wardour had discovered the truth. She called out to him, 'While you can stand, keep with the other men, Frank!'" "Good God!" cried Crayford; "I warned him myself, almost in those very words, the last time I saw him!" "Don't acknowledge it, William! Keep her in ignorance of what you have just told me. |