Such Power is Dangerous by Dennis Wheatley

Author:Dennis Wheatley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1933-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

14

How Hinckman dealt with Bamborough

Two days later Avril was busy putting the finishing touches to her flat in South Audley Street; she had had a thousand things to see to on her return, and the place had not been lived in for more than three months, while she had been journeying round the world. She was engaged in putting away the books that Nelson Druce had so thoughtfully sent on board the Plymouth Hoe.

As she fitted the volumes into her bookshelves, she was thinking about their donor. She had thought about him a very great deal during these last few days; in fact, more than she had thought about him for a month. It was Uncle John who had started the trouble by his half-humorous suggestion that she had a little more than a strictly business interest in the young man.

Uncle John was an exceedingly shrewd person, and Avril wondered what she could possibly have said to give him that impression. It wasn’t true, she had told herself at the time. Avril was not one of those women who regard other women’s men as fair game. At Hollywood she had certainly never considered Nelson in any other light than as a pleasant acquaintance. On the boat of course it had been different, during the first part of the struggle she had been so furiously angry that she felt she hated him, but afterwards—when he gave way—she had to admit to herself that some current of understanding had passed between them then, that could never leave them quite the same again.

After her first day out from Los Angeles, she had firmly put any such idea out of her mind. The whole Hollywood party had proved a terrible fiasco as far as she was concerned, and she hoped that she might never again meet any of the people that she had known there. She knew quite well that she would meet many of them some time in the future, but she persuaded herself that it was not likely to be for some considerable time. She had managed, not without some little difficulty, to class Druce among the rest. The fact that she was eating the sweets and wearing the clothes that he had chosen for her, did not make it any easier, but the very fact that something that had happened to her on the last tempestuous night, had made her more determined than ever to get him out of her mind—and she had succeeded.

Now Uncle John had upset the whole apple-cart again and compelled her to think, but even so she refused to admit that she was in love with him—to do so would be an absurd weakness, and Avril was not weak. He had not given the least sign of any interest in her except that which circumstances had forced him to show, and anyhow there was Vitelma.

‘Damn the woman—how I hate her!’ said Avril aloud. Then she realised what she had said, she laughed suddenly and sat down in a chair.

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