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In a short time your father seemed to have" Dermott coughed "tired of the affair," he explained, lightly, "and, his studies being finished, he left his wife and child and returned to America. I do not desire to dwell on the misery of my cousin and her child.
"The only person ye've ever known, probably, who did not fall under the charm of the ways and the eyes of you." There was flattery in this of such a subtle kind that Katrine looked quickly from one to the other, for with woman's intuition she had long since felt the antagonism between them. "Ye see," Dermott went on, "I underrated the South when I came here.
When you had gone, his daughter Winny awoke and called your name, for you had been in her dreams. Bridget Delaney the Dummy saw her lips move and the trouble upon her, and came where we were hiding in the wood above the house and took Dermott of the Sheep by the coat and brought him to his daughter. He saw the trouble upon her, and bid me ride his own horse to bring you the quicker.
Both men turned, for at the far end of the room Katrine stood, under the swinging light of a Japanese lamp, regarding them. She came rapidly toward them, her head a little forward, her cheeks scarlet, and a gleam of temper in her eyes, which Frank had never seen, but with which Dermott was not unfamiliar, and took a place between them.
There is none need ever know, save Frank." "You have never liked him, have you, Dermott?" Katrine asked, with directness. "Never," Dermott answered, with a frankness matching her own. "Why?"
But that evening, as the ladies were having their candles lit at the foot of the staircase, I heard Robin say to Dolly "Will you come with us to-morrow?" Dolly seemed to consider, and was about to reply, when Dermott, who never seemed very far away now, cut in. "Too late, Fordyce! Miss Rubislaw has promised to come and load for me in my butt to-morrow afternoon."
"To see justice done to Madame de Nemours," he answered. "It will mean that Mr. Ravenel has no right either to his home or his name?" The pleading and protest in her voice did not escape Dermott as he answered: "It will mean just that!" "And nothing can move you from your purpose?"
He reflected, too, upon the changes in himself, one of the greatest being his recognition of the sound virtues of Dermott McDermott. There had been times when circumvention by this son of Erin had been so masterly, so deft, so unexpected that Frank had felt like extending a congratulating hand. Once he had actually laughed aloud, at a board meeting, over an election which McDermott had dictated.
Why," Dermott rose from the table by which he had been sitting, and stood directly facing Frank "why he should have made a second marriage, with a wife and child living in France, is beyond explanation."
After his mother's recovery Frank went back to New York immediately, keen to arrange the railroad matters and get the actual work started. In the first interview with De Peyster, however, he found that Dermott McDermott was far from being out of the reckoning. "It is rumored," said De Peyster, "that he is trying to elect himself president of N.C. & T. road.