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"I wish it were ended now," she exclaimed, trembling with anger and mortification. Her voice was choked by emotion, and broken by smothered sobs. Louis Bastine thought to himself, "she is a real spitfire, but beautiful even in her wrath." During the rest of her journey Iola preserved a most freezing reserve towards Bastine. At length the journey was ended.
When she said slavery was not a bad thing, little did she think that she was destined to drink to its bitter dregs the cup she was so ready to press to the lips of others. "How do you think she will take to her situation?" asked Camille. "O, I guess," said Bastine, "she will sulk and take it pretty hard at first; but if she is managed right she will soon get over it.
"I shall tell her her father is dangerously ill, and desires her to come as quickly as possible." "And what then?" "Have her inventoried with the rest of the property." "Don't she know that her father is dead?" "I think not," said Bastine. "She is not in mourning, but appeared very light-hearted this morning, laughing and talking with two other girls.
There is not a social circle in the South that would not take it as a gross insult to have her introduced into it." "Well," said Bastine, "my plan is settled. Leroy has never allowed her to spend her vacations at home. I understand she is now very anxious to get home, and, as Lorraine's attorney, I have come on his account to take her home." "How will you do it?"
Lorraine knows her market value too well, and is too shrewd to let so much property pass out of his hands without making an effort to retain it." "Has she any brothers or sisters?" "Yes, a brother," replied Bastine; "but he is at another school, and I have no orders from Lorraine in reference to him. If I can get the girl I am willing to let well enough alone.
This question was asked by Louis Bastine, an attorney who had come North in the interests of Lorraine. The scene was the New England village where Mr. Galen's academy was located, and which Iola was attending. This question was addressed to Camille Lecroix, Bastine's intimate friend, who had lately come North.
On the next morning after this conversation between these two young men, Louis Bastine presented himself to the principal of the academy, with the request that Iola be permitted to leave immediately to attend the sick-bed of her father, who was dangerously ill.
At one time a sister-in-law of Olae Christaphersen, Bastine Christaphersen, was in childbirth. The midwife said the child could not be born without medical help. Her husband started for Wilmer to get the doctor. At seven o'clock she began to get blue and lost consciousness. They sent for Brother Olae.
He was the son of a planter who lived near Leroy's plantation, and was familiar with Iola's family history. Since his arrival North, Bastine had met him and communicated to him his intentions. "Yes; just caught a glimpse of her this morning as she was going down the street," was Camille's reply. "She is a most beautiful creature," said Louis Bastine.
Iola and Bastine took the earliest train, and traveled without pausing until they reached a large hotel in a Southern city. There they were obliged to wait a few hours until they could resume their journey, the train having failed to make connection. Iola sat in a large, lonely parlor, waiting for the servant to show her to a private room. She had never known a great sorrow.
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