A. E. W. Mason

Name: The Four Feathers — XXI: Ethne Makes Another Slip
Author: A. E. W. Mason

The Four Feathers — XXI: Ethne Makes Another Slip (1902)

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“The Four Feathers — XXI: Ethne Makes Another Slip”, published in 1902, is a work by A. E. W. Mason. It explores elements such as Durrance, Ethne and Harry Feversham.

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXI: Ethne Makes Another Slip (1902)

“ At this very moment Harry Feversham might be struggling for breath in that dark and noisome hovel, dry of throat and fevered with the heat, with a vision before his eyes of the grass slopes of Ramelton and with the music of the Lennon River liquid in his ears.
"One would pray for death," said Ethne, slowly, "unless——" She was on the point of adding "unless one went there deliberately with a fixed thing to do," but she cut the sentence short. Durrance carried it on:—
"Unless there was a chance of escape," he said. "And there is a chance—if Feversham is in Omdurman." ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXI: Ethne Makes Another Slip (1902)

“ It added something to the explanation which he was building up of Harry Feversham's disgrace and disappearance. The story was gradually becoming clear to his sharpened wits. Captain Willoughby's visit and the token he had brought had given him the clue. A white feather could mean nothing but an accusation of cowardice. Durrance could not remember that he had ever detected any signs of cowardice in Harry Feversham, and the charge startled him perpetually into incredulity. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXI: Ethne Makes Another Slip (1902)

“ He was afraid that he had allowed himself to say too much about the horrors of the prison in Omdurman, and he added: "Of course, what I have described to you is mere hearsay and not to be trusted. We have no knowledge. Prisoners may not have such bad times as we think;" and thereupon he let the subject drop. Nor did Ethne mention it again. It occurred to her at times to wonder in what way Durrance had understood her abrupt disappearance from the drawing-room on the night when he had told her of his meeting with Harry Feversham. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXI: Ethne Makes Another Slip (1902)

“ Durrance was coming from the window of the drawing-room, and spoke as he came, to warn her of his approach. "He was and is my friend; I cannot leave him there. I shall write to-night to Calder. Money will not be spared. He is my friend, Ethne. You will see. From Suakin or from Assouan something will be done."
He put all the help to be offered to the credit of his own friendship. Ethne was not to believe that he imagined she had any further interest in Harry Feversham.
She turned to him suddenly, almost interrupting him.
"Major Castleton is dead?" she said.
"Castleton?" he exclaimed. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXI: Ethne Makes Another Slip (1902)

“ He was living, and in what straits she dreaded to think, and yet thirsted to know. At rare times, indeed, her impatience got the better of her will.
"I suppose that escape is possible from Omdurman," she said one day, constraining her voice to an accent of indifference.
"Possible? Yes, I think so," Durrance answered cheerfully. "Of course it is difficult and would in any case take time. Attempts, for instance, have been made to get Trench out and others, but the attempts have not yet succeeded. The difficulty is the go-between."
Ethne looked quickly at Durrance. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXI: Ethne Makes Another Slip (1902)

“ The peril was greater now, the difficulties more arduous to overcome; that she clearly understood. But she took the one success as an augury that another might follow it. Feversham would have laid his plans with care; he had money wherewith to carry them out; and, besides, she was a woman of strong faith. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXI: Ethne Makes Another Slip (1902)

“ To-night Durrance was able to join Major Castleton to Trench and Willoughby. Ethne's satisfaction at the death of a man whom she did not know could mean but the one thing. There would be the same obligation resting upon Feversham with regard to Major Castleton if he lived. ”

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