"Saunders is gone." "Gone ?" half shrieked her ladyship.
"Into the bank," he added, scratching a match.
"Deppy," she said after a moment, "I hope I was not too hard on the poor fellow." "Perhaps you won't be so nervous if you sit down and look at the sea," he said gently, and she immediately knew that he suggested it because he expected a tragedy in the opposite direction.

She dropped Pong without another word, and, her face quite serious, seated herself upon the big trunk which he selected.

He sat down beside her, and together they watched the long line of smoke far out at sea.
They expected every minute to hear the shouts of assassins and the screams of the brave Mr.Saunders.Their apprehensions were sensibly increased by the mysterious actions of the half-naked loiterers.

They seemed to consult among themselves for some time after the departure of the clerk, and then, to the horror of the servants, made off in various directions, more than one of them handling his ugly kris in an ominous manner.

Bromley was not slow to acquaint his lordship with these movements.