CHAPTER 12Promptly Court busied himself with the golden-haired girl. The feline look in Jansaiya’s sophisticated green eyes, and the vague suggestion of cruelty about her lips, were not in evidence now as she lay in cataleptic sleep. Rather she seemed some elfin creature out of Earth’s myth-haunted past, a daughter of Neptune.
The violet-tinted gossamer robe scarcely veiled the alluring curves of her slim form. Her lashes lay golden on the rose-petal cheeks. She seemed helpless, childlike. Utterly trusting, she lay curled like a kitten on the couch.
The poignant loveliness of the Atlantean girl was suddenly an aching stab in Court’s heart. He felt no passion for her, no infatuation. She was too completely removed from mundane life for that. But Jansaiya curiously seemed to typify and emb
