"
"You're too impatient," Deede Dawson smiled. "I'm getting everything
ready; you can't properly expect to win a game in a dozen moves. You
must develop your pieces properly and have all ready before you start
your attack. As soon as I'm ready--why, I'll act--and you'll have
to do the rest."
"I see," said Dunn thoughtfully.
CHAPTER XXI
DOUBTS AND FEARS
In point of fact Dunn had not been asleep when Deede Dawson came
listening at his door. Of late he had slept little and that little
had been much disturbed by evil, haunting dreams in which perpetually
he saw his dead friend, Charley Wright, and dead John Clive always
together, while behind them floated the pale and lovely face of Ella,
at whom the two dead men looked and whispered to each other.
In the day such thoughts troubled him less, for when he was under
the influence of Ella's gentle presence, and when he could watch her
clear and candid eyes, he found all doubt and suspicion melting away
like snow beneath warm sunshine.
But in the silence of the night they returned, returned very
dreadfully, so dreadfully that often as he lay awake in the darkness
beads of sweat stood upon his forehead and he would drive his great
hands one against the other in his passionate effort to still the
thoughts that tormented him. Then, in the morning again, the sound
of Ella's voice, the merest glimpse of her grave and gracious
personality, would bring back once more his instinctive belief in
her.
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