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His manner had grated on Colfax after a time, for he was the soul of vainglory himself, and he wanted no other gods in the place beside himself. White, on the contrary, was constantly subservient and advisory in his manner. It made a great difference. By degrees, through one process and another, Eugene had lost ground, but it was only in a nebulous way as yet, and not in anything tangible.
"For whom?" The interruption brought remembrance. "For my cousin, Mr. Colfax," she answered, in another tone. And as she spoke she drew away from him, up the driveway. But she had scarcely taken five steps whey she turned again, her face burning defiance. "They told me you were not coming," she said almost fiercely. "Why did you come?" It was a mad joy that Stephen felt.
There are a number of things I would like to talk to you about." This was written on the paper of the United Magazines Corporation, which had just been organized to take over the old company of Swinton, Scudder and Davis, and was labeled "The Office of the President." Eugene thought this was significant. Could Colfax be going to make him an offer of some kind? Well, the more the merrier!
So absorbed was he in contemplation of this, and in wondering whether indeed she were to marry her cousin, Clarence Colfax, that he did not see the wonders of view unrolling in front of him. She stopped at length beside a great patch of wild race bushes. They were on the edge of the bluff, and in front of them a little rustic summer-house, with seats on its five sides. Here Virginia sat down.
Through the rows of faces he had searched in vain for one. His motive he did not attempt to fathom in truth, he was not conscious at the time of any motive. He heard the name shouted at the gate. "Here they are, the dragoons! Three cheers for Colfax! Down with the Yankees!" A storm of cheers and hisses followed. Dismounted, at the head of his small following, the young Captain walked erect.
Edward Hancock, a London detective; Deputy Marshal Colfax and others, boarded the steam tug P. C. Schultze at the Battery and steamed across to Governor's Island. At 10.30 o'clock Capt. J. W. Bean, on post at the fort, received an order to deliver him over. Capt.
There, riding in front, erect and firm in the saddle, is Captain Clarence Colfax. Virginia is red and white, and red again, true colors of the Confederacy. How proud she was of him now! How ashamed that she even doubted him! Oh, that was his true calling, a soldier's life.
It was said of him that he could turn an oath better than any man on the river, which was no mean reputation. Mrs. Colfax was assisted to bed by Susan. Virginia stood by the little window of the cabin, and as the Barbara paddled and floated down the river she looked anxiously for signals of a conflagration. Nay, in that hour she wished that the city might burn.
Colfax and White had come to understand by degrees that Eugene was a person who, however brilliant he might be in selecting men, was really not capable of attention to detail. He could not bring his mind down to small practical points.
The girl smiled as she thought of that moment of terrible terror two years ago when she learned, in the castle of Peter of Colfax, that she was alone with, and in the power of, the Devil of Torn. And then she recalled his little acts of thoughtful chivalry, nay, almost tenderness, on the long night ride to Leicester. What a strange contradiction of a man!
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