CHAPTER XV.
THE STORY OF THE FIRST FEATHER "I will not interrupt you," said Ethne, as Willoughby took his seat beside her, and he had barely spoken a score of words before she broke that promise.
"I am Deputy-Governor of Suakin," he began.

"My chief was on leave in May.

You are fortunate enough not to know Suakin, Miss Eustace, particularly in May.

No white woman can live in that town.

It has a sodden intolerable heat peculiar to itself.