For a week he sent evasive replies toher
messages.
Hewould even welcome the chance of killing two
birds with one stone.
The weakness in Gurseys reasoning was its too
strict logic.
Emma began deliberately, as if driving a lesson
into the head of aperverse child.
She laid a hand on herbreasts, as she clearly
pictured Gursey clutching his shirt. You wouldnt be losing land and sheep
now.
Youll have little to throw in my face
then.
After a while he shuddered, turned away, picked up
hisswag and dragged himself out of the room. If youve got a mind to save the shirt
on his back youll makethat clear, lass. A man doesnt run after the snake to give
itanother chance to bite him? Peters is an old woman, she interrupted
contemptuously. The weakness in Gurseys reasoning was its too strict logic. She
looked more haughty and defiant than ever.
For wouldit not all be laid at HIS door because of
what had happened atMurrumburra? Could that woman suspect what she was planning and
have come out ofmalice to defeat her? Should she warn Cabell, soblind and
over-confident?
Ah, youmust think Im as evil as yourself. Cabellhad
been thrown into a bush and blinded, it seemed.
Jesuitical reasoning that collapsed when Emma had
made it clearjust WHY he should send Gursey away. You dont know what youre talking
about, he growled. McGovern pulled back his sleeve and looked admiringly at his arm.
That old fakirs no bettern a brown snake.
He made a frantic grab at the air, and the
persistent buzzing ofthe fly stopped abruptly.
He stroked his beard for an interminable time
before he demanded,Whats your nonsense now?
Within a month he hadmade McGovern into his
exclusive, insatiable parasite.
But he only managed to swallow a chestful of smoke
that had swirleddown on the wind suddenly.
He turned to go, but cameback to her side and went
on in a persuasive voice: The mans noangel. Just then Cabell reached out a hand and
groped in the empty air. Could that woman suspect what she was planning and have
come out ofmalice to defeat her? Youll have little to throw in my face then. When he
looked atGursey, the wreck of an ill-starred life, he hated him.