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She knew that to Horton, who played polo like a fiend incarnate, the

figure would be effective, and she whipped out her words with so

very close to scorn

"Duck your head!" she co about"

Possibly, she had thrown more of herself into her philippic than she

had realized Possibly, some of her emphasis imparted itself to her

touch on the tiller, and jerked the sloop too violently into a sudden

puff as it careened At all events, the boat swung sidewise, treull, and then slapped its spread of

canvas prone upon the water with a vicious report

"Juirl disappeared over-

side, perilously near the sheet He knew the danger of coh side, he sith racing strokes

toward the point where she had gone down When Adrienne's head did not

reappear, his alared under water where the shadow

of the overturned boatcloudy and obscure to his wide-

open eyes He stroked his way back and forth through the purple fog