"
Nora Darling interrupted the dialogue by quietly fainting. The
foreman caught her as she fell.
"See what y'u done, y'u blamed chump!" he snapped.
CHAPTER 13. THE TWO COUSINS
The sheepman lay at his ease, the strong supple lines of him
stretched lazily on the lounge. Helen was sitting beside him in
an easy chair, and he watched the play of her face in the
lamplight as she read from "The Little White Bird." She was very
good to see, so vitally alive and full of a sweet charm that half
revealed and half concealed her personality. The imagination with
which she threw herself into a discussion of the child fancies
portrayed by the Scotch writer captured his fancy. It delighted
him to tempt her into discussions that told him by suggestion
something of what she thought and was.
They were in animated debate when the door opened to admit
somebody else. He had stepped in so quietly that he stood there a
little while without being observed, smiling down at them with
triumphant malice behind the mask he wore. Perhaps it was the
black visor that was responsible for the Mephisto effect, since
it hid all the face but the leering eyes. These, narrowed to
slits, swept the room and came back to its occupants.
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