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Fing-Su's embarrassment was only of the shortest duration. The folded arms came apart, the shrinking figure gained a new and sudden poise, and Grahame St Clay was his European self again. Into the dark eyes came a malignant fire which made him of a sudden a figure of terror. Only for the fraction of a second did the beast in him raise his head. The light died; he was his old pedantic self.
"This intrusion is perfectly unwarrantable," he said in a^ queer, staccato tone which in any other circumstances would have been ludicrous.