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Again the silence fell, and again the only sound to be heard was the soft flutter of the brown wings as the moth circled vainly round the candle flame which would inevitably prove fatal to him by and by.
Then Anstice spoke very quietly.
"Certainly, when they interfere with no other man's visions." Bruce hesitated a moment. "But in this case--look here, Anstice, once before you shattered a dream of mine, broke
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"As to your dreams I can say nothing," he said quietly. "For mine--well, a man's dreams are surely his own."
"Wait." Cheniston interrupted him ruthlessly. "Hear me out. It is three years since that day in India when the woman I loved died by your hand. Oh"--Anstice had made an involuntary movement--"I am not here to heap blame upon you. I have since recognized that you could have done nothing else----"
In the silence which followed his last words a big brown moth, attracted by the yellow candlelight, blundered into the room, and began to flutter madly round the unresponsive flame; and in the poignant hush the beating of his foolish wings sounded loudly, insistently.
"Make amends?" He spoke slowly to gain
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White to the lips Anstice answered him:
"Well, having cleared the ground so far, suppose we go a little further. I think--you will correct me if I am wrong in my surmise--I think I am right in saying that we both cherish a dream in regard to Miss Wayne."
"I do--and I'll go further," said Cheniston suddenly. "I have an uncomfortable notion that if you tried you
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"Of course not!" Cheniston smiled grimly.
" Cheniston's blue eyes gleamed in his brown face.
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"You mean I am to stand aside and let you have a fair field with the lady?" He could not bring himself to mention her name.
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"Yes. I do understand. And if ever a man regretted the breaking of a dream I have
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"I quite agree with that." Anstice's eyes, too, began to glitter. "And--having said so much, what then?"
His unexpected phraseology made Anstice pause before he replied. There was a touch of pathos, an unlooked-for poetry about the words which seemed to intimate that whatever his attitude towards the world in general, Cheniston's regard for Iris Wayne was no light thing; and when he replied Anstice's voice had lost a little of its hostility.
"Yes. That's just what I do mean." Cheniston spoke defiantly--or so it seemed to the man who listened.
"Certainly." Yet for all his ready reply Cheniston hesitated. "I mean--we're both of us in love with Iris Wayne. Oh"--Anstice had muttered something--"let's be honest, anyway. As to which--if either--of us she prefers, I'm as much in the dark as you. But"--his voice was cold and hard as iron--"having robbed me of one chance of happiness, are you going to rob me--try to rob me--of another?"
"I see." Anstice's face was very pale now. "At least you do me the honour of looking upon me in the light of a possible rival."
"I'm afraid you overrate my capabilities," said Anstice rather cynically. "Miss Wayne has certainly never given me the slightest reason to suppose she would be ready to listen to me, did I overstep the bounds of friendship."
"But you can't deny you did me an ill turn on that fatal morning. And"--Cheniston threw away his cigarette impatiently--"are you prepared to make amends--now--or not?"
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