How could he have betrayed her so cruelly? How could he lie and claim her as dead? Sebastian studied her carefully as she refused to cry and became like a pillar of stone. The scent of cloying pine dust filled the air as floodlights shone eerily through the jungle gym of new wood. But the indecision, which had been fatal to his race, was fatal to him. Herculis was surrounded by an archipelago, which local chroniclers had claimed was teeming with mermaids. “We are both of us trenching upon forbidden ground,” she said. ‘Do you at least know how he came to be in a position to cheat Miss Charvill, and to pass off his wife in her place?’ ‘In her place?’ There was no mistaking the boy’s ignorance of this part of the tale. Bulging out more in the middle than at the two extremities, it resembled an enormous cask set on its end, —a sort of Heidelberg tun on a large scale,—and this resemblance was increased by the small circular aperture—it hardly deserved to be called a door—pierced, like the bung-hole of a barrell, through the side of the structure, at some distance from the ground, and approached by a flight of wooden steps. ’ ‘As we see.
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