For an instant the two men remained staring straight into
each other's faces, while on the ground between them lay Ann's slender,
white-limbed body, limp and unconscious.
To Cara, hurrying towards them as fast as the wet skirts which clung about
her would allow, the brief scene seemed like a picture flung vividly upon a
screen. In that moment of fierce stress the innermost thoughts of the two
men were nakedly revealed upon their faces--if not to each other, at least
to the clear, unerring vision of the woman, who caught her breath sharply
between her teeth in a sudden blinding flash of enlightenment.
The little group seemed to her symbolical--the two men standing face to
face like hostile forces, with the young, girlish figure lying helplessly
between them.
CHAPTER XV
ANCIENT HISTORY
Ann opened her eyes and stared incuriously up into a blank, indeterminate
expanse of white. It was quite without interest--conveyed no meaning to her
whatever. Moreover, her eyelids felt inexplicably heavy, as though they
were weighted. So she let them fall again, and the placid, reposeful sense
of nothingness which had been momentarily interrupted enveloped her once
more.
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