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"No please Miss Dodge. Let me deal with her." By this time Elaine was furious. "Yes I WILL see her." She pressed the button on Bennett's desk and Milton responded. "Milton, show the the woman in," she ordered, "and that boy, too." As Milton turned to crook his finger at "Weepy Mary," she nodded surreptitiously and dug her fingers sharply into "son's" ribs.
"That's the Dodge boat," he said thoughtfully. "I don't like the looks of that fellow. Give her more speed." Del Mar had not been gone long before Elaine decided to take a ride herself. She ordered her horse around from the stables while she donned her neat little riding-habit.
What Elaine Arsdale, whom he had legally adopted, knew, was what caused the white light about the bowed head of the man. When she first learned she could not tell, but as a very young girl she remembered days when he came to her with his face very white and tense, and in his eyes the terror of one in great pain, and said to her, "Little girl, will you sit with me a bit?"
"Isn't May 3rd the day that ends your agreement?" asked Elaine. "It is; but I'll extend that date." Larssen took from his pockets a fountain-pen and a scrap of paper and scribbled a few words on it, signing his name underneath. "Suppose you enclose this when you're writing to Matheson? It extends our agreement until May 20th." He passed the paper to her.
Then they came to Astolat, and Sir Bernard gave them all great welcome, and they were well feasted and well lodged. On the morrow, when they should depart, the maid Elaine was pale and very quiet, until Sir Lancelot came into the hall to say farewell. Then the maid, bringing her father and her two brothers with her, went up to Sir Lancelot and said: 'My lord, now I see that ye will depart.
Come, you must lie down again and keep quiet." There was a brisk rap at the door, and Dr. Hegelmann came in to see how his patient was progressing. "What's this?" he exclaimed, seeing Elaine standing up and the nurse trying to persuade her to return to her couch. "Doctor, please let me telephone!" "To whom?" "To Mr Rivière. I must speak to him quickly I must!"
Lars Larssen proposed to do it. In order to provide the requisite security, he would have to mortgage his ships and his private investments. He would be dicing with nine-tenths of his entire fortune. The second move was to prevent interference, while the issue was being offered to the public, from those who knew anything of the inner history of the flotation Matheson, Olive, Elaine, and Dean.
It was either that, or else, who knows, the happiness, the peace, the love which was not troubled by any evil afterthoughts, that absolute love that I dreamt of between Elaine and myself when I asked for her hand, and which I was still continually dreaming of with the despair of a condemned soul far from Paradise, and from which I was suffering, and which would kill me.
Quickly Del Mar whispered his instructions which the man took, and hung up the receiver. "I hope you'll pardon me," said Elaine, entering just as Del Mar left the telephone. "Mr. Jameson was going into town and I had a number of little things I wanted him to do. Won't you sit down?" They chatted for a few moments, but Del Mar did not stay very long.
It was only a small moon, but it was close. He walked to the edge of the landing stage, and Elaine was walking with him. The noise from inside, where the Nemesis crew were feasting with those of the Lamia and Space Scourge grew fainter. To the south, a star moved; one of the pinnaces they had left on off-planet watch. There was firelight far below, and he could hear singing.
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