The affair is now one of London's unsolved mysteries. Personally I have, as I said, my fancies--the date of the cutting is ten days after my arrival, with Anna, in London--but it is no business of mine.
It is peaceful here in this little spring-coloured garden. The sun has just dropped down behind a bank of storm-clouds over the sea and the lights of Pendeen are flashing out. A tramp steamer, miles away and looking like a toy on the broad Atlantic, is ploughing her way down towards the Longships. Perhaps she is going to Bilbao, or even Corbo or Rozana. Above me a large bird is planing on outstretched motionless wings in the copper blue of the sky, and the moors around me look like masses of crumpled mauve velvet in the darkening twilight.
And I--I sit here and smoke a very excellent cigar and wonder if Fate will ever stretch out her hand again to pick me up and drop me again into the whirl of things.
I say to myself that I hope not--and know that I lie.
_Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London and Bungay_
From the Play by Wm. Devereux, produced at the New Theatre with great success by Miss Julia Neilson and Mr. Fred Terry.
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