Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-03-06
hsnsstly believe" pleasantly, " that you
regard this turn Of the affair as happy

hsnssfly believe" pleasantly, that you
regard this turn OF the affair as happy
release from"
"Well, wish you Joy OF Norah, at all
events" says she interrupting him with
brusqueness foreign TO her She has risen,
and Is looking down at him, a distinctly
venomous CLEAN in her pale ewes.
THAT'S SO like you'll Thanks very
much" returned he, graciousness itself.
zone naturally likes TO DO congratulated
on such occasions at this. 1t is very good
of you, but Of course old friends, cousins,
as we are, it is only what / might
have-n
The door slamming with rather undue
haste terminates the sentence.
~ thank my stars That's oyerW says De-
laney, with heartfelt sigh.
He goes back to his reading, but sDme-
how the favor has gone out of it. A sense
CT discomfort, OF impotence, seizes hold Of
him, and troubles him to such an extent
that finally he filings away his paper and
gives way to one thought that for days has
been torment.ng him. II Kather.ne-if
the others-are permitted to see him, why
may not Norah come, SO that he may see
her? Oh, the tender Joy of that thought
To see her face to face, TO look again into
her eyes, with no hateful barrier to
check the love-light in his own. Sho
is so very much letter, so nearly
strong aga n, that it seems to him she might
DO trusted to visit him for a few short min
utes--half an hour or so. 1t is altogether alb
surd the way these doctors are domineering
over him, forbidding him to move except at
stipulated moments, or else he would go
and find here, were she ever so jellouily
guarded. But as it is, and as the Madam
has told him only this morning that she is
so far herselfeagain that she is TO 90 down
stairs to-mo' row, surely, surely, of her
grace she will come to him if no petition
her. Not to-day, perhaps-not even to-
morrow-but-
To ring a bell, to bring the devoted
mother to his side, TO exp ain to her his
hopes and longing, 10 gain her over to his
views, is but the work Of a few minutes.
'She is no. very strong IT, darling;
| you must remember that. am afraid
you will be a little troubled by tho change
in her. And If she com's Denis, you must
be very, very careful not TO unnerve her in
| any way, because she is still -well-rather
unstrung, you know, since that awful
night"
II know. Perhaps, after all, 1t wc3ld
be better for her not TO come l can wait.
In a few days, at all events, l shall be
able to go TO her, and
~ don't think / am afraid OF her
meeting you, only l would have you be
CAREFUL Indeed, was talking TO DR..
Morgan yesterday, and he agreed with me
that if she were to see you it might have
the effect of allaying this dangerous
nervousness that is retarding her recovery.
So, if you think, dearest, that she might
come now, it would he worth while,
think, 70 try the experiment.
'Nowl nowl This moment! oh, mother
do you really mean that"
Certainly not" severely. "If you are
going TO work yourself into a fever over
! it."
'Nonsense! I'm as cool as a cucumber
The only thing that could bring me on
fever now would be your going back OF
your blessed suggestion; so hurry, if you
love me; and give Norah this message
from me: that l shall never DO a hi
better than l am now until look upon hei
face again.
1t is a message that touches the Duchess.
Perhaps she had been secretly longing fol
some such token, because when she gets 1
she rises up out of the deep Longing chail
in which her little fragile form is almos
hidden, and with a silent embrace bestowed
upon the gentle Madam, she slips her arm
into hers and goes with her down the Ions
southern corridor and past the gallery int
the western wing where Denis perforc
dwells.
Here Madam, stopping at the door o
his sitting presses tho girls arm
fondly and walks deliberately away. The,
must settle matters in their own fashion
without her or anyone's interference.
And Norah, opening the door of he
cousins room, walks slowly in In tn
heavy, close fitting gown of white serg
she wears, and with her pale little face
spiritualized by illness, she seems almost Al
angel visitor rs she stands just inside tn
door, uncertain, motionless, hardly know
ing what to do.