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At long intervals Horatio would come to them for Sunday dinner, when Milly had not some other festivity on foot. On these occasions the little man seemed subdued, as if he had turned down the hill and drearily contemplated the end, at the bottom. He liked best to sit on the rear porch, read the Sunday Star, and watch the gleaming lake.
"Of course you have, dear," soothed the other, quickly; "and we shall keep on hunting, both of us, till we do find him or die. But THIS sort of thing doesn't help." "But I don't want to do anything else," murmured Ruth Carew, drearily. For a moment there was silence. The younger woman sat regarding her sister with troubled, disapproving eyes.
Meantime the long sunny hours, that passed so pleasantly for these plighted lovers, lagged drearily enough for one young lady at Powyss Place Miss Beatrix Stuart. She had sent for her mother and told her the news. Placid Aunt Chatty lifted her meek eyebrows and opened her dim eyes as she listened. "Sir Victor Catheron going to marry our Edith! Dear me!
On the tenth day the Captain broke silence. "Get ready the lots, Blowhard," he said. "It's got to come to that." "Yes," I answered drearily, "we're getting thinner every day." Then, with the awful prospect of cannibalism before us, we drew lots. I prepared the lots and held them to the Captain. He drew the longer one. "Which does that mean," he asked, trembling between hope and despair.
I smiled drearily as I imagined his incredulous indignation. No; everybody was against me, saints and sages, Geoffrey and Hammerfeldt, women and men; even the fools gave no countenance to my folly. William Adolphus thought that I might gradually ! At five o'clock I sent for Wetter. He came with remarkable promptness.
A watery sun looked out of a lowering sky, and then retreated altogether, and a leaden dullness overspread the whole firmament. An icy wind curdled your blood and tweaked your nose, and feathery snowflakes whirled drearily through the opaque gloom.
She was too overwrought to see things with an impartial eye. She felt too tired greatly to care. "I feel," she told him drearily, "as if I want to get away from everything and everybody." "Oh no, you don't!" he said. "All you want is to get away from Burke. That's your trouble and always will be under present conditions. Do you think I haven't looked on long enough? Why don't you go away?"
And of such was Harris's leave taking, cool as his contribution to that happy rival's comfort, he thought, as he rode drearily away to the ford, with but a wave of the hand in response to the shout of Craney and Watts at the shack, while "Barkeep" and a few hangers-on stood gazing from under the canvas shade at the store, and Case, the silent bookkeeper, bent over his desk by the east window the desk wherein still reposed that big calibre 44, with every chamber loaded and the handle more coated with dust.
A similar thought passed through Elspie's mind, while she sat with little Olive at the window, where, a few years ago, she had stood rocking the new-born babe in her arms, and pondering drearily on its future. That future seemed still as dark in all outward circumstances but there was one ray of hope, which centred in the little one herself.
On the contrary, he buys precisely the same things as his fellow-millionaires, the same stereotyped possessions houses in Fifth Avenue and Newport, racehorses, automobiles, boxes at the opera, diamonds and dancing girls; and whether, as the phrase is, he makes good use of his wealth, or squanders it on his pleasures, the so-called good or bad uses are alike drearily devoid of individuality.
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