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His anger, if it were anger, had blown over him like a summer storm, and the clear blue of his glance was as winning as ever. "If you are free for half an hour I'd like to have the talk we spoke of the other day," answered Stephen. "Oh, I'm free except for Darrow. You won't mind Darrow."
Dick's note gave no details; the illness was evidently grave, but might not Darrow regard her coming as an intrusion? To repair her negligence of yesterday by a sudden invasion of his privacy might be only a greater failure in tact; and after a moment of deliberation she resolved on sending to ask Dick if he wished her to go to him. The reply, which came late, was what she had expected.
"This is the Snowbird, from Easton, Maine, She is manned by her builders, Darrow and Sampson. She carries as passengers Washington White, Andrew Sudds and Amos Henderson," declared the professor, in reply. "And she is bound for Alaska." "Well, well!" exclaimed the voice of their pursuer. "That may all be so. But I have my suspicions. I am Ford, special agent of the Department of Justice. Stand by.
In any event, I have burned my bridges behind me, and whether I ever become a resident of Pfleugersville or not, I have already become a resident of Sirius XXI." Judith Darrow was silent for some time. Then, "This morning," she said, "I wanted to ask you to join us, but I couldn't for two reasons. The first was your commitment to sell our houses, the second was my bitterness toward men.
She wanted to know if Darrow thought the lovers "really would" be involved in the catastrophe that threatened them, and when he reminded her that his predictions were disqualified by his having already seen the play, she exclaimed: "Oh, then, please don't tell me what's going to happen!" and the next moment was questioning him about Cerdine's theatrical situation and her private history.
"I feel like a hypocrite," he said, as he read an enthusiastic review of his little work from the pen of no less a person than Mr. Darrow, the high-priest of the realistic sect. "I am afraid I shall not be able to look Darrow in the eye when I meet him at the club." "Never fear for that, Stuart," I said, laughing inwardly at his plight.
She recoiled from her thoughts as if with a sense of demoniac possession, and there flashed through her the longing to return to her old state of fearless ignorance. If at that moment she could have kept Darrow from following her to Givre she would have done so... But he came; and with the sight of him the turmoil fell and she felt herself reassured, rehabilitated.
Susie Darrow had been to boarding-school, Sadie Brooks to New York, and May Moore was going to the sea-side next month; so they were all much uplifted in mind and manner, and took unto themselves the airs of thoroughly initiated society-ladies. "Girls?" said Miss Brooks, with her little affected drawl, and raising her eye-glass in her lavender kid-fingers.
"They volunteered, sir," said the Captain, with simple pride. Darrow bowed with a suggestion of reverence in the slow movement of his head. "And that night or was it two nights later? you saw the last appearance of the portent. Well, I shall come to that.... Slade has told you how they lived on the beach. With us in the valley it was different. Almost from the first I was alone.
"And I presume the earthquake and the volcanic eruption are closely connected?" suggested Mark. "We may safely believe that," agreed the professor. "I am sorry my instruments are not at hand. I sincerely hope none was damaged when the Snowbird made such a bad landing." "And I'd like to give the machine an overhauling at once to see just how badly she's damaged," Jack Darrow said, hastily.
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