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Clearly a shock. But the effects of a bucket of
water are diverse. They depend on the kind of flame. A mere blaze of
dry straw, of course . . . but there can be no question of straw there.
Anthony of the _Ferndale_ was not, could not have been, a straw-stuffed
specimen of a man. There are flames a bucket of water sends leaping sky-
high.
We may well wonder what happened when, after Fyne had left him, the
hesitating girl went up at last and opened the door of that room where
our man, I am certain, was not extinguished. Oh no! Nor cold; whatever
else he might have been.
It is conceivable he might have cried at her in the first moment of
humiliation, of exasperation, "Oh, it's you! Why are you here? If I am
so odious to you that you must write to my sister to say so, I give you
back your word." But then, don't you see, it could not have been that. I
have the practical certitude that soon afterwards they went together in a
hansom to see the ship--as agreed. That was my reason for saying that
Flora de Barral did go to sea . . . "
"Yes. It seems conclusive," I agreed.


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