Was she likewise to miss her womanhood ? Alan 's hands clenched involuntarily at the unuttered question . On his way home that evening he again met Isabel King . She turned and walked back with him but she made no reference to Four Winds or its inhabitants . If Alan had troubled himself to look , he would have seen a malicious glow in her baleful brown eyes . But the only eyes which had any meaning for him just then were the grey ones of Lynde Oliver . * * * * * During Alan 's next three visits to Four Winds he saw nothing of Lynde , either in the house or out of it . This surprised and worried him . There was no apparent difference in Captain Anthony , who continued to be suave and friendly . Alan always enjoyed his conversations with the Captain , who was witty , incisive , and pungent ; yet he disliked the man himself more at every visit . If he had been compelled to define his impression , he would have said the Captain was a charming scoundrel . But it occurred to him that Emily was disturbed about something . Sometimes he caught her glance , full of perplexity and -- it almost seemed -- distrust . She looked as if she felt hostile towards him . But Alan dismissed the idea as absurd . She had been friendly from the first and he had done nothing to excite her disapproval . Lynde 's mysterious absence was a far more perplexing problem . She had not gone away , for when Alan asked the Captain concerning her , he responded indifferently that she was out walking . Alan caught a glint of amusement in the older man 's eyes as he spoke . He could have sworn it was malicious amusement .
One XXXXX he went to Four Winds around the shore .
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