You will soon have a very wideacquaintance among the officers if you have brandy and Champagne tospare. He did not notice that the gentleman was at least as uncomfortable ashimself. Oh, you should go, Drawlight smiled spitefully. trange, went upstairs and hid himselfaway in his little room at the back of the house on the second floor.
That is all. It might havebeen a scar - the relic of a street brawl perhaps - but what it most resembledwas that barbaric painting of the skin which is practised by the natives of theSouth Sea islands. It is -- apart from any thingelse -- very traditional. Ha! exclaimed Strange with bitterest irony.
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