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have now seen our Powell many times under the most favourable

conditions--and besides I came upon a most unexpected source of

informationBut never mind that Theto the story I'll admit that for so two and two together

failed to procure a coherent theory I aator--a man of deductions With e know of Roderick Anthony

and Flora de Barral I could not deduct an ordinary marital quarrel

beautifully matured in less than a year--could I? If you ask me what is

an ordinary marital quarrel I will tell you, that it is a difference

about nothing; I s which, as Mr Powell told us when

we first met him, shore people are so prone to start a row about, and

nurse into hatred fro, from perverted ambition,

for spectacular reasons too There are on earth no actors too huallery which envenoer, amused comments or words of perfidious

compassion However, the Anthonys were free fro

influences At sea, you know, there is no gallery You hear no

torreat

elemental voice roars defiantly under the sky or else an elemental

silence seems to be part of the infinite stillness of the universe