21/48 But since you were not there, since I was alone, I did it alone. I thought of you, Hilary, while I was saying what I had to say. I tried to hear your voice speaking again outside the Chalet de Lognan. 'What you know, that you must do.' I warned my father that if any harm came to Walter Hine from taking the drug again, any harm at all which I traced to my father, I would not keep silent." Chayne leaned back in his seat. "You stood up alone and braved him out! My dear, if I had only been there! And you never wrote to me a word of it!" "It would only have troubled you," she answered. |