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Something had happened, something unexpected and terrible, something considerable and of consequence, whilst he was sleeping -- this much he understood at a flash, even before he was properly awake, at the first sound of a harsh, unknown voice. He took it in with that sharpened sense of danger which to him and his comrades had developed almost into a new special sense. He was up quickly and sat with his hand pressing his revolver hard, his eyes searchingly and sharply exploring the mist of the room. And when he saw her, in the same attitude, with her shoulders of that transparent rosy hue, and her bared breast, and those eyes so enigmatically dark and unswerving, he thought to himself: "She has betrayed me! " Then he looked again more steadily, sighed deeply, and corrected himself: "She hasn't yet, but she will."
How miserable it all was!