If your sister is not in love with him, she is about the only woman in the station who isn't." "That's the disgusting part of it," fumed Tommy.

"He makes love to every woman he meets." They had reached a shadowy compound that bordered the dusty road for a few yards.

A little eddying wind made a mysterious whisper among its thirsty shrubs.

The bungalow it surrounded showed dimly in the starlight, a wooden structure with a raised verandah and a flight of steps leading up to it.

A light thrown by a red-shaded lamp shone out from one of the rooms, casting a shaft of ruddy brilliance into the night as though it defied the splendour without.