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His brain was awhirl with thoughts: could the telegram be a hoax, a piece of speculative trickery, a bribed betrayal? He glanced at the signature; no, it was out of the question to suspect this reliable agent. But had anything like that ever happened before? A world-power had fooled itself and taken self-destructive measures for no apparent reason!
But to tell the truth, my own head is still awhirl with all the chapter of accidents that brought me here. Since you flew off with B.S., following afoot, I've traversed a vast deal of adventure to wind up here. If," he added, grinning, "this is the wind-up. I've a creepy, crawly feeling that it isn't...."
It was a foolish sort of a reverie, and scarcely worth the setting down. It was a reverie of the kind that everyone, and especially everyone's wife, admits to be mawkish and unprofitable; and yet, somehow, the next still summer night, or long sleepy Sunday afternoon, or, perhaps, some cheap, jigging and heartbreaking melody, will set a carnival of old loves and old faces awhirl in the brain.
Like the sigh in his own soul, sweet and low, the music died out. The figure was finished. Pleading fatigue, Carter sought the quarters assigned him in the castle. His senses were awhirl, his spirits high in the chimera that Trusia cared for him. Had he been compelled to remain in attendance he felt certain that he would have bruited his glad tidings abroad.
Two sliding planks serve as shutters and close the chest if the sleeper would be alone. This dormitory, sheltered under the chimney mantel, supplies couches for the favored ones of the house, the two boarders. They must lie snug in there at night, with their shutters closed, when the north wind howls at the mouth of the dark valley and sends the snow awhirl.
At the threshold he halted and, looking back at her, said firmly: "I am sorry for you, Laura, but remember you've got to tell the truth." "Please go," she cried almost hysterically. He went out, closing the door behind him. With a sigh of intense relief, Laura sank utterly exhausted into the armchair which Brockton had vacated. Everything had come so suddenly that the girl's brain was all awhirl.
The thought of running the gauntlet of the smirking attendants, the possibility of meeting some of the exultant dramatic critics, most of whom were there to cut him to pieces, revolted him. Their joyous grins were harder to face than cannon, therefore he cowered in his place during the long wait, his mind awhirl, his teeth set hard.
He went into the entry and put on his overshoes and his coat, while James Redbrook regarded him with a curious mingling of pain and benevolence on his rugged face. "I won't press you now, Austen," he said, "but think on it. For God's sake, think on it." Outside, Austen paused in the snow once more, his brain awhirl with a strange exaltation the like of which he had never felt before.
It is to be feared that he was not altogether successful, judging from the faint flush that rose in her cheek as she dropped her gaze before his. His mind awhirl, the young man hurried up to the gangway of the steamer where he found one of the officers.
But as she sat now and looked down into the valley at the encampment, she was not so sure. Her mind was all awhirl. Was this the way to happiness? What would mother have said? She wanted her to have the best, but what was the best? It was only a few hours till the sunset and what should she do? Was there no one to help her? Suddenly from the roadway below she heard a neigh.
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