You were not offended?"
"Believe me, no," French answered, with a sort of shudder; "for the first time in my life I was glad to see you go-your presence was torture to me-I was concealing something from you, Mrs. Ponsonby, and it has got to get itself told."
While he spoke her expression changed rapidly from amazement to alarm, and she got up and came close to him-waiting-but without a word.
"Simeon is lost," he said, hoarsely, hurling the bald fact at her before his courage failed. "I tried to tell you yesterday," he went on, drawing the cables from his pocket, "but I couldn't; it all seemed so vague at first, and I ventured to wait until I got more news."
She was standing before him with her hands clasped and her face deadly pale, but with a calm that frightened him.
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