He himself had never dreamed how it irked her until now. It was many years since he had been in the East, not, indeed, since Felipa had been a small child.[Pg 160] Keeping his promise to Cabot, as he understood it, had left him little for such pleasures as that. But he had done his duty then; he would do it again, and reap once more what seemed to him the inevitable reward, the reward which had been his all through his life,—sheer disappointment, in all he prized most, ashes and dust."Will you make haste?" cried Felipa, out of patience.
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Ellton retaliated with more spirit. "Or guarding a water hole on the border for two or three months, and that's quite as likely to be your fate."Landor asked what he meant by that. "I'm sick of all this speaking in riddles," he said.The Agency man thought a question would not commit him. He had not been round at that time, and he asked for information. The lieutenant gave it to him.
