All this, I thought, was cruel.
I turned to Captain Holiday, who was just laughing—at this rate I should soon change places with my chum. I should become the Man-Hater. Men were too irritating, too little worth all this trouble and affection that we lavish upon them!
But, in the meantime, we had forgotten the storm. Suddenly it broke out, deafeningly, over our heads.
"Ah!" exclaimed Captain Holiday sharply, springing to his feet.
We followed his example.
"Here it is," he cried. "The storm!"
CHAPTER XXIV
STORM
"Lightning may come, straight rains and tiger sky."
—MEREDITH.
I turned up my face. Splash! came the first huge thunder drop upon it.