But deep into her young heart something new had been born, faint fire,
latent, unstirred; and her delicate lips rested one on the other in the
sensitive curve of suspense; and her white fingers, often now
interlinked, seemed tremulously instinct with the exquisite tension
hushing body and soul in breathless accord as they waited in unison.
* * * * *
Toward the end of March the special service battleship squadron of the
North Atlantic fleet commenced testing Chaosite in the vicinity of the
Southern rendezvous. Both main and secondary batteries were employed.
Selwyn had been aboard the flag-ship for nearly a month.
In April the armoured ships left the Southern drill ground and began to
move northward. A destroyer took Selwyn across to the great fortress
inside the Virginia Capes and left him there. During his stay there was
almost constant firing; later he continued northward as far as
Washington; but it was not until June that he telegraphed Austin:
"Government satisfied.
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