"Perceived what ?" Lorimer laughed.

"That the boat containing your Sun-empress is coming along very rapidly, old fellow, and that you'd better make haste to receive her!" This was the fact, and Duprez had risen from his chair and was waving his French newspaper energetically to the approaching visitors.
Errington hastened to the gangway with a brighter flush than usual on his handsome face, and his heart beating with a new sense of exhilaration and excitement.

If Lorimer's hints had any foundation of truth--if Thelma loved him ever so little--how wild a dream it seemed!.

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