The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-05-28
CHAPTER XIX.
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Night
A quicker braeze was stirring nj
John Valiant went back along the Rec
Road. lie had waited In the gardeI
ut Rosewood TIL Shirley. aided b.
Emmaline and with Ranston's anxious
face lowering In the background, hav
ing performed those gentle Offices
which a woman's fainting spell re
qnires. had come to reassure him and
TO say good night.
bedroom he had chosen for his own
he felt the hard corner OF the Lucille
In the pocket. and drawing II out, laid
II on the table by the bedside. He
seemed to feel again the tingle oil
his cheek where curling strand oil
her coppery hair had sprung against II
when her head had bent beside his
own to read the marked lines.
When he had undressed he sat an
hour In the candle blaze, a dressing
gown thrown over his shoulders. striv
Ing vainly to reereate that evening
call. TO remember her every word and
look and movement. For a breath
her face would flush suddenly before
him. like a live thing: then 1t would
mysteriously fade and elude him
though he clenched his hands on the
arms OF his chair In the fierce mental
effort TO recall H. Only the intense
blue OF her eyes, the tawny sweep OF
her hair-these and the touch OF her
the consciousness OF her warm and
vivid fragrance. remained to wrap ali
his senses In q mist woven of gold
and fre.
.
Shirley. meanwhile had sat some
time beside her mothers bed, leaning
from white chintzeovered chair. her
anxiety only partially allayed by reas,
suranceB, nov and then STOPPING to lay
her young cheek against the delicate
arm IN it's lacy sleeve or TO pass her
hand lovingly up and down It's outline
noting with recurrent passion OF ten,
derness the transparency al the skin
with itH violet veining and the ahad
ows beneath the closed eyes, Emma,
line, moving on soft worsted.shod feet
about the dim room. at length had
whispered
You 20 tub bald. honey, stay
with Mis' Judith TIL she 10 tub sleep
Yes, 20. Shirley" said her mother
Haven't any privileges at all? Can't
even faint when feel like II. without
calling out the fire.brigade2 You'll
narnFar ma ~ daafh aud h..a. Lnrus
don't need IT,"
You won't let me telephone for Doc,
tor Southali?"
Certainly mott"
And you are sure Il was nothing
but the roaesg"
Why. what else should II be-" said
her mother almost peeyishly. Il must
really have the arbors thinned out. On
heavy nights It's positively overpower.
ing. Go along now. and wen talk
about Il tomorrow. | can ring II |
want anything"
In her room Shirley undressed
thoughtfully There was between her
and her mother a fine tenu0us bond
OF sympathy and feeling as rare. per.
haps. as II was lovely, She could not
remember when the other had not
been a semi.inyalld. and her earliest
childhood reeolleetlons were punctu.
ated with the tap OF the little cane.
Tonights sudden indispositlon had
shocked aud disturbed her: to faint
at rush OF perfume seemed TO sug.
gest growing weakness that was
alarming Tomorrow. she told herself.
she would send Ranston with a wagon.
load OF the roses to the hospital at
Charlottesville.
She slipped on pink shellshaded
dressing gown of silnky silk with a
riot of axaleas scattered In the weave,
aud then dragging her chair before
the open window. drew aside the light
curtain and began to brush her hair.
All al once her gaze fell upon the
Moor, and she shrank backward from a
twisting thread'like thing whose bright
saftron.yellow glowed sharply against
the dark carpet she saw In an In.
slant, however. that II was nothing
more dangerous than fragment OF
lovevlne from the garden. which had
chung to her skirt She picked up
the tiny mass OF tendriis and with a
slow smile tossed II over her right
shoulder through the window. III Il
takes root she said aloud. my sweet.
heart loves Tue" she leaned from the
Sili to peer down into the misty gar.
den, but could not follow It's fEll.
i.onK ago her visitor would have
reached pamory Court. She had
vision OF him wandering. candle In
hand, through the empty eeholnE
rooms, looking at the volceless por,
traits on the wallis. thinking perhaps
% hts father, OF the fatal duel Of which
he had never known. She liked the