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The Four Feathers

CHAPTER XVIII
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I thought that you would like me to." "Yes," said Ethne, in a whisper.
"So, when he came out from the cafe, and with his hat in his hand passed through the jeering crowd, I threw a sovereign into the hat.

He turned to me with a start of surprise.

In spite of his beard I knew him.
Besides, before he could check himself, he cried out 'Jack!'" "You can have made no mistake, then," said Ethne, in a wondering voice.
"No, the man who strummed upon the zither was--" the Christian name was upon her lips, but she had the wit to catch it back unuttered--"was Mr.
Feversham.

But he knew no music I remember very well." She laughed with a momentary recollection of Feversham's utter inability to appreciate any music except that which she herself evoked from her violin.

"He had no ear.


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