Fate Knocks
章节目录
共 25 段- In the fall of 1899, David Cairns, the youngest of the Ameri
- ... So often, Bedient watched admiringly while Cairns wrote.
- For the first time it struck Bedient that he must leave. He
- "Yes," the _Sannyasin_ answered simply, but a moment later,
- "There was something about you then, Andrew," (meaning the l
- Natives came from the entire Island to smoke and drink and w
- "Without knowing it, Bedient has made me see that I haven't
- TWO DAVIDS COME TO BETH
- "Far too warm for shawls," he laughed. "I was only getting i
- "Oh, he'll come to you, right enough. I supposed he had....
- "It seems it was meant for me to stay in that house, but I c
- One morning--it was one of the first of the May mornings--th
- Certain of her barbed sentences caught in Bedient's mind: "W
- "There are immediate examples of men maturing in prophecy,"
- "To me, there's real peace and silence away out there in the
- "And perhaps it _is_ my fault," she whispered desperately. "
- Bedient dismounted, pulled the reins over the mare's head an
- "Insurrection was smoking down there when we left ten days a
- May I trouble you, my really delightful friend (it read), no
- "I asked why, and she said he was alone in a strange country
- Someone was already aboard, for the cabin-door was open. The
- The crouching figure of the woman--in the rage she had praye
- The material things about him--walls, staircase, even the
- "Perhaps, I did too, David."
- "I believed a despicable thing of Andrew Bedient--and sent h