United States or Norfolk Island ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
At last I could make out Kennedy dimly mounting the ladder. The weight was the unconscious body of Elaine which he steadied as he mounted. I tugged harder and he slowly came up. Together, at last, the policeman and I reached down and pulled them out. We placed Elaine on the cellar floor, as comfortably as was possible, and the policeman began his first-aid motions for resuscitation.
"This time it was you saved me!" he cried, "Elaine!" Involuntarily his arms sought hers and he held her a moment, looking deep into her wonderful eyes. Then their faces came slowly together in their first kiss. "Jameson wake up!"
"Did you think," she asked, "that it was nice to make fun of a lady in that way?" "I didn't think," returned Dick, truthfully. "I never thought for a minute that it was making fun of you, but only of that that pup, Perkins," he concluded, viciously. "Under the circumstances," said Elaine, ignoring the epithet, "the silence of Mr. Perkins has been very noble. I shall tell him so."
Off in the water they could now see the most curious sights. Four strangely helmeted creatures were wading out, each like a huge octopus-head, without tenacles. Only a few seconds before, Del Mar and his companions, carrying Elaine had emerged from the secret entrance of the tunnel and had dashed for the shore of the promontory.
"My gracious," cried Aunt Josephine, in alarm, "where will this thing end?" Elaine was doing her best now to quiet the fears of her aunt and the rest of the household. "Well," she laughed, a little nervously, now that it was all over, "I want you all to go to bed and stop worrying about me. Don't you see, I'm perfectly able to take care of myself?
The congratulations and compliments which she heard on every side were very sweet to Mary's ears, and when Phil came up a little later to tell her that she was a brick and the heroine of the evening, she laughed happily. "Where is the fair Elaine?" he asked next. "I see her boat is empty. Can you tell me where she has drifted?"
"Elaine," he said at length, dropping the recent return to "Miss Dodge," for the moment, "Elaine, is there any truth in this morning's newspaper report of of you?" She had dropped her eyes. But he persisted, taking a newspaper clipping from his pocket and handing it to her. Dame Rumor is connecting the name of Miss Elaine Dodge, the heiress, with that of Perry Bennett, the famous young lawyer.
"Oh, good!" exclaimed Elaine, as Craig and I hurried out after Chase and his man with her. "May I go with you?" "Really, Elaine," objected Craig, "I don't think it's safe. There's no telling what may happen. In fact, I think Walter and I had better not be seen there even with Chase." She pouted and pleaded, but Craig was obdurate.
Perkins, without even a poem for farewell. Elaine, lost in the story, was heedless of her surroundings. It was only at the last chapter that she became conscious of self at all. Then, suddenly, in her turn, she perceived a parallel, and quivered painfully with a new emotion.
Let this exquisite garment, which we have both worn, be the symbol of that internal robe which costumes our united souls, woven from the texture of our affections. Tit-tit-tit-transparent though it may seem tot- tot-tolerably thick; for does it not reveal to me the workings of the soul of my beb-beb-beloved? Ah, Elaine, how trifling do earthly treasures seem, compared with those of the affections!
Word Of The Day