full as my heart was of love and self, I could not but lay a hand on poor Ready’s shoulders.
“God bless you, old boy!” I said to him.
He turned a white face that gave me half an instant’s pause.
“It’s all over with me this time,” he said. “But, I say, I was right about the cargo?”
And I heard a chuckle as I reached the ladder; but Ready was no longer in my mind; even Eva was driven out of it, as I stood aghast on the top-most rung.
full as my heart was of love and self, I could not but lay a hand on poor Ready’s shoulders.
“God bless you, old boy!” I said to him.
He turned a white face that gave me half an instant’s pause.
“It’s all over with me this time,” he said. “But, I say, I was right about the cargo?”
And I heard a chuckle as I reached the ladder; but Ready was no longer in my mind; even Eva was driven out of it, as I stood aghast on the top-most rung.
