日期：2023-08-07 (Annes Narrative Resumed) It was on the night of the Fancy Dress dance that I decided that the time had come for me to confide in some one. So far I had played a lone hand and rather enjoyed it. Now suddenly everything was changed. I distrusted my o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Diamonds! I stared, fascinated, at the glassy heap on the bunk. I picked up one which, but for the weight, might have been a fragment of broken bottle. Are you sure, Suzanne? Oh, yes, my dear. Ive seen rough diamonds too often to have any doubts. Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I got an opportunity of tackling Colonel Race on the following morning. The auction of the sweep had just been concluded, and we walked up and down the deck together. Hows the gipsy this morning? Longing for land and her caravan? I shook my head. No... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Extract from the diary of Sir Eustace Pedler) Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town. It is really the greatest relief to get off the Kilmorden. The whole time that I was on board I was conscious of being surrounded by a network of intrigue. To put the lid... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Annes Narrative Resumed) I dont suppose that as long as I live I shall forget my first sight of Table Mountain. I got up frightfully early and went out on deck. I went right up to the boat deck, which I believe is a heinous offence, but I decided t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 It reminded me forcibly of Episode III in The Perils of Pamela. How often had I not sat in the sixpenny seats, eating a twopenny bar of milk chocolate, and yearning for similar things to happen to me. Well, they had happened with a vengeance. And so... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I drove to the hotel. There was no one in the lounge that I knew. I ran upstairs and tapped on Suzannes door. Her voice bade me come in. When she saw who it was she literally fell on my neck. Anne, dear, where have you been? Ive been worried to deat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I had no further difficulty in carrying out my plans. I found a small hotel in a back street, got a room there, paid a deposit as I had no luggage with me, and went placidly to bed. On the following morning I was up early and went out into the town... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Extract from the diary of Sir Eustace Pedler) I am inclined to abandon my Reminiscences. Instead I shall write a short article entitled Secretaries I have had. As regards secretaries, I seem to have fallen under a blight. At one minute I have no se... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Annes Narrative Resumed) I thoroughly enjoyed the journey up to Rhodesia. There was something new and exciting to see every day. First the wonderful scenery of the Hex river valley, then the desolate grandeur of the Karoo, and finally that wonderfu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 We arrived at Bulawayo early on Saturday morning. I was disappointed in the place. It was very hot, and I hated the hotel. Also Sir Eustace was what I can only describe as thoroughly sulky. I think it was all our wooden animals that annoyed himespec... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I came to myself slowly and painfully. I was conscious of an aching head and a shooting pain down my left arm when I tried to move, and everything seemed dream-like and unreal. Nightmare visions floated before me. I felt myself fallingfalling again.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Annes Narrative Resumed) I had great trouble with Suzanne. She argued, she pleaded, she even wept before she would let me carry out my plan. But in the end I got my own way. She promised to carry out my instructions to the letter and came down to t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 You are right. My real name is Harry Lucas. My father was a retired soldier who came out to farm in Rhodesia. He died when I was in my second year at Cambridge. Were you fond of him? I asked suddenly. Idont know. Then he flushed and went on with sud... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Harry listened attentively whilst I recounted all the events that I have narrated in these pages. The thing that bewildered and astonished him most was to find that all along the diamonds had been in my possessionor rather in Suzannes. That was a fa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Extract from the diary of Sir Eustace Pedler) As I remarked once before, I am essentially a man of peace. I yearn for a quiet lifeand thats just the one thing I dont seem able to have. I am always in the middle of storms and alarms. The relief of g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Johannesburg, March 6th. There is something about the state of things here that is not at all healthy. To use the well-known phrase that I have so often read, we are all living on the edge of a volcano. Bands of strikers, or so-called strikers, patr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Annes Narrative Resumed) As soon as I got to Kimberley I wired to Suzanne. She joined me there with the utmost dispatch, heralding her arrival with telegrams sent off en route. I was awfully surprised to find that she really was fond of meI thought... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I was not summoned to Sir Eustaces presence until late in the afternoon. Eleven-oclock tea and a substantial lunch had been served to me in my own apartment, and I felt fortified for further conflict. Sir Eustace was alone. He was walking up and dow... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 We were not able to return to Johannesburg that night. The shells were coming over pretty fast, and I gathered that we were now more or less cut off, owing to the rebels having obtained possession of a new part of the suburbs. Our place of refuge wa... 阅读全文>>