Destination unknown by Agatha Christie

Author:Agatha Christie
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction in English, Traditional British, Mystery & Detective, Fiction
ISBN: 9780006138808
Publisher: Fontana
Published: 1975-07-15T07:57:15.770000+00:00

"But they're lepers!" she exclaimed. "Lepers!"

A shiver of horror shook her entire frame.

Chapter 11

The gates of the leper colony closed behind the travellers with a metallic clang. The noise struck on Hilary's startled consciousness with a horrible note of finality. Abandon hope, it seemed to say, all ye who enter here... This, she thought, was the end... really the end. Any way of retreat there might have been was now cut off.

She was alone now amongst enemies, and in, at most, a very few minutes, she would be confronted with discovery and failure. Subconsciously, she supposed, she had known that all day, but some undefeatable optimism of the human spirit, some persistence in the belief that that entity oneself could not possibly cease to exist, had been masking that fact from her. She had said to Jessop in Casablanca "And when do I reach Tom Betterton?" and he had said then gravely that that was when the danger would become acute. He had added that he hoped that by then he might be in a position to give her protection, but that hope, Hilary could not but realise, had failed to materialise.

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