” said I, “if you will first give me five minutes’ conversation with Miss Denison. Otherwise I do not go; and as for the gig, you may take me or leave me, as you choose.”
“What have you to say to her?” asked Santos, coming up to me, and again lowering his voice.
I lowered mine still more. “That I love her!” I answered in a soft ecstasy. “That she may remember how I loved her, if I die!”
His shoulders shrugged a cynical acquiescence.
” said I, “if you will first give me five minutes’ conversation with Miss Denison. Otherwise I do not go; and as for the gig, you may take me or leave me, as you choose.”
“What have you to say to her?” asked Santos, coming up to me, and again lowering his voice.
I lowered mine still more. “That I love her!” I answered in a soft ecstasy. “That she may remember how I loved her, if I die!”
His shoulders shrugged a cynical acquiescence.
