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Nevitt's disappearance?" "Oh, that was quite another matter," Cyril answered, blushing deep with shame, for he couldn't bear to let Elma know Guy was a forger as well as a murderer. "That was something purely personal between us two. He he owed me money." Elma's keen eyes read him through at a glance. "But he said it all in one sentence," she objected, "as if the two went naturally together.
I should have put them on if you had not locked our bedroom door, and prevented my coming into the room, which is just as much mine as yours. As it was imperative for me to see Elma Lewis immediately, I asked Fred if he would walk round with me to her house, and I wore his college cap.
Then he descended cautiously on to the six-foot-way, and held out his hand to help Elma from the carriage. It was no collision, he saw at once, but a far more curious and unusual accident. Looking ahead through the tunnel, all was black as night. A dense wall of earth seemed to block and fill in the whole space in front of them.
And she blames me so for marrying your poor father, Carrie; as if I could help that now. And what do you think she is going to do? She says she is going to take Elma from us." "And a good thing, too," said Carrie. "Carrie, what an unnatural girl you are! Do you mean to say you would be glad to part from your sister?"
Clifford's eyes, fixed mildly and calmly upon her face, not in anger, as she feared, or reproach, but rather in infinite pity. For a second their glances met in mute intercourse of soul, then each dropped their eyelashes as suddenly as before. Through the rest of that lunch Elma sat as in a maze, hearing and seeing nothing. What she ate, or drank, or talked about, she knew not. Mr.
"I cannot think why you speak to me in that tone," said Elma. "What have I done to you that you should think so badly of me?" "Oh, I don't think badly of you, Elma, not specially; but I have always seen that whatever you did, you did with a reason. In your own way you are clever, you are extremely worldly wise. There are certain people who would commend you; but you are not like the rest of us.
I heard of this through a great friend of mine, Fraeulein Van Brunt. She is going to Germany herself next week, and will take Elma, if you can spare her." "If I can spare her? But it will break my heart such a sensible girl as she is," said poor Mrs. Lewis.
"How can I when you don't understand," said Elma. "You would be wanting in all honor; none of us ten girls would speak to you again." "Wouldn't Bessie Challoner, the darling?" "Certainly not. She could not; none of us could." "I shouldn't like that," said Kitty thoughtfully. "I did not know, when I joined the Tug-of-war, that I was to be burdened with secrets.
"Yes, and that's the bother," said Bessie, "for mother insists on my brushing it out every night for at least ten minutes, and all that time is taken from my books. I tell you, Elma, I would gladly change with you."
Not a word that he said, to be sure, implied to Guy himself the depth of his surprise; but Elma, with her marvellous insight, could see at once, for all that, by the very haze in his eyes, that he was fascinated by Guy's personality, somewhat as she herself had been fascinated the other day in the train by Sardanapalus.
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