6/38 nobody knows him." His high dark colour, his dignity, his courtesy had about it something distinguished and romantic. "He'll do something wonderful one day, _you_ bet. Why, if he only chose to play up at footer there's nothing he couldn't do." Even the brilliant Cardillac, thin, dark, handsome leader of fashion and society, admitted the charm. _He'll_ turn up." But of course he wouldn't turn up. He was lying in the heart of that crushed, dripping fern with his leg doubled under him. |