The Crescent Moon (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...that the day must come when the presence of M'Crae would be revealed to James, who seemed, for the time, to have got the better of the fever in his blood. She dreaded this because she knew that when it came to that she must almost certainly lose M'Crae; and the presence of M'Crae had made her Jiappier than she had ever been before at Luguru. James wouldn't understand their position. She could be sure of that in advance. To say that James wasn't capable of relieving her of the attentions of Godovius would not help matters much, for James had a good.opinion of himself in the role of the protecting male, The idea that his place should be taken by a onearmed elephant-hunter of the most doubtful antecedents, who had stolen into his house in the night while he lay sick with fever, would not appeal to him. Indeed, there was bound to be trouble with James. I do not suppose that the question of what James' attitude would be gave much worry to M'Crae; but there was another threat to their peace of mind, of which they both were conscious and which could not be regarded so lightly. Godovius.... All the time Eva was conscious of him in the back of her mind, and particularly at night when she and M'Crae sat in the banda talking. Then, from time to time, she would find herself overwhelmed with very much the same sort of feeling as that which she had experienced on the way down from Njumba ja Mweze, just before she had met M'Crae. Now, as ever, the nights were full of restless sound; and every sound that invaded their privacy began to be associated with the idea of Godovius; so that when a branch rustled or a twig snapped at night she would never have been surprised to have seen Godovius standing over them. He had always had the way of appearing suddenly. She grew very ner...