The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
Cloister current had carried me right across and washed me on shore."
 Ra gggled appreciatively.

and washed me on shore.'
 Ra giggled appreciatively.
 "Not much. The Cloister current isn't so keen on the monarchy as all that. 1t would have drowned you in couple of miles of water as soon as it looked at you. Didn't you know that Stepan Woronz jumped in after you and swan with you all the way across?"
 "Who says he jumped in after me?'
 "Theobald. He saw him do it. Of course, they never thought he could keep it up. They were carried on much too fast to throw a rope, or do anything to help. He managed the whole thing"
 "Is this," said Evadne, ungenerously, red spots burning in her cheeks, 'is this the tale the man himself tells?"
 q don't know. I haven't seen him. But the thing speaks for itself. Where were you when you came to!"
 Just under the cliff, in little cove where Tuich keeps his boat"
 "Well, think minute, duckie. How did you get there? The water doesn't come anywhere near it. It is high and dry and sheltered from the rain. If you had been, as you so innocently suppose, washed up by the water you would have lain on the edge in the pelting rain, and have been chilled to death, or perhaps washed back into the lake. Why, when they found you you were warm."
 Evadne sat gazing at the hands clenched in her lap, her teeth pressing so tightly upon her lower lip that at last the pain recalled her racing thoughts.
 "Did it rain much?" she asked weakly.
 "Like the deluge, until some time after dawn"
 In the long pause which followed, the prince rose and went to get out the Halma board for game.
 "This makes me look a most utter fool, Ra," faltered Evadne, at length. q was so rude and isolent to that man. He's do you know-such a worm. He seems made to be trodden upon. But he really must have thought me the limt-'
 Ra surveyed her, his mouth puckered as if to whistle.
 @Mean to say you thought he was there by accident, tool"
 She nodded, her face hot with painful blush.
 "I didn't reflect-I couldn't. I felt too ill.,"
 There was again silence, until all the pieces were arranged in their respective corners of the board. At last she murmured, shamefacedly:
 @Has anybody thanked him, do you know?"
 Cant say. Haven't seen him myself Better ask Varley."
 ''If l had understood, he ought to have been taken to the palace and properly looked after. I must send him some money, mustn't r."
 "I should think father will see that he is suitably rewarded. There was a tre- mendous rumpus, you know, the day his Majesty came down to know the reason why. But old Glanz, meanwhile, had sneaked off, and by the time father go ito Veros the whole rabble was back in Gailima; and I expect the worst of the royal wrath had worked off by the time they met"
 Evadne gave but divided attention to his chatter. In her there ranked the sting of the thought that she had behaved with atrocious, objectionable insolence and want of consideration to man who, at risk of his own life, had saved hers.
 She returned to the subject, after few minutes.
 '1f l write a-a note to that Pole, will you take it to Mistitch and ask him to make sure that he gets it?"
 'Does that mean that you're not going to have a game?'
 Perhaps will, after have got this letter off my mind Think Raw how ahomi.