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It was with difficulty Gilardoni could curb his impatient desire for his master's return. Could he by any possibility have imagined in which direction to seek for him, he would have started off in quest before the storm was well exhausted. But he was absolutely a stranger in this part of the world, and for aught he could tell, his master might be the same.
He was perforce obliged to remain in Captain Desfrayne's rooms in absolute inaction, listening with keenly strained watchfulness to every sound, every footfall of man or beast.