Daughter of the Sun / A Tale of Adventure

"[...] She beckoned Rios as he came back with Ortega. He went to her side and she whispered to him. "We will play here, at this end of the room, señor," Rios said to Kendric. As Kendric looked quite naturally from the one who spoke to the one from whom so obviously the order had come, he saw for the first time the gleam of the woman's eyes. A very little she had lifted the brim of her hat so that from beneath she could watch what went forward. They held his gaze riveted; they seemed to glow in the shadows as though with some inner light. He could not judge their color; they were mere luminous pools. He started with an odd fancy; he caught himself[...]".