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"Rousseau thought that both the initials were those of Diane; he says in his Confessions: 'In 1747 we went to pass the autumn in Touraine, at the castle of Chenonceaux, a royal mansion upon the Cher, built by Henry II for Diane de Poitiers, of whom the ciphers are still seen." We turned, at the sound of a strange voice, to find the Frenchman of the Bon Laboureur standing quite near us.
His gaze passed on to the set features of Pilot O'Malley to the blue eyes of a flaxen-haired giant then on to where Walt Harkness and Diane, his wife, sat regarding him with happy smiles. Dimly Chet heard the man at the speakers' stand. " and on that other occasion, Mr. Bullard refused a decoration tendered him and marking him as the first to travel through airless space.
It was the February of a year later before it became a definite necessity no longer to be put off. In the mean while, under the beneficent processes of time, sunshine, and Diane Eveleth's cultivation, Miss Dorothea Pruyn had become a "bud." The small, hard, green thing had unfolded petals whose delicacy, purity, and fragrance were a new contribution to the joy of living.
"I'll have to," said Aunt Agatha with an aggrieved sniff. "For I do believe I'm filled with steam now. Why are you so white and quiet, Diane? Is it the revolver?" "Aunt Agatha," exclaimed the girl impetuously, "why have you always been so reticent about my mother?" The effect of the girl's words was sufficient proof that the frightened lady had absorbed but little of Philip's revelation.
Diane brought a message from the doctor asking her father and the sheriff to join him. Marbolt displayed unusual alacrity, and Fyles followed him as he tapped his way up to the sick-room. Here the stick was abandoned, and he was led to his seat by his daughter. Diane was pale, but alert and determined; while her father wore a gentle look of the utmost concern.
That is the way to deal with such a child as that. 'You do not know what you say, brother, answered Diane with dignity. 'It goes deeper than that. 'The deeper it goes, child, said the elder Chevalier, 'the better it is that she should be undeceived as soon as possible. She will recover, and be amenable the sooner. 'Then he lives, father? exclaimed Diane.
"Well, mine was short: it was simply to beware of a church under the ground and a woman in black and white. I have never seen such a church nor ever met such a woman." I thought of Diane of Valentinois and her favourite colours, and a sudden chill came over me. For a moment I stood silent. "Now for yours, monsieur," she said gaily. "Mine!
"Diane," he cried in a terrible voice as he stretched his arms out towards her, "it was for your sake!" But she, his destroyer, scarce glanced at him from her place on the judgment seat. "He is quite mad!" And with a musical laugh she leaned back, and picking out a comfit from a little jewelled box began to nibble at it daintily as De Ganache's hands fell helplessly to his sides.
"Yes; Diane de Poitiers Diane, Duchess of Valentinois Diane, the curse of France! But I should play the Caliph Aaron no more, and keep home of nights; better still, take horse with the dawn for Navarre!" There was a strange earnestness in the speaker's voice.
With the swift grace which to Carl's eyes always bore in it something of the primitive, Diane swept away, and the staring tableau dissolved into a trio of discomfited men of whom Carl seemed But an indifferent onlooker. "Well," fumed Starrett irritably, "why in thunder don't you say something?"
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