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Tommy listened uneasily to the distant sound. Suddenly he felt Evelyn bump against his shoulder. He turned sharply and she was out of the Tube! She was walking steadily off into the darkness! "Evelyn! Evelyn!" She did not falter or turn. He switched on the flashlight beneath his gun barrel and leaped out of the Tube himself. The light swept about. Evelyn's lithe figure kept moving away from him.
I'm afraid Rex won't succeed his father," she added, with a touch of regret and a glance of pride at her husband. "You never go to church, Rex. Phil does." "I got enough church at boarding-school to last me a lifetime, mother," her son replied. He was slightly older than Evelyn, and just out of college.
Evelyn listened, thinking of her poor people, contrasting their simplicities with the artificialities of the gang that is how she put it to herself which ran about from one house to another, visiting, calling itself Society, talking always, changing the conversation rapidly, never interested in any subject sufficiently to endure it for more than a minute and a half.
"You will be very happy with such a companion." Evelyn made no answer for a few moments, and then, turning abruptly round to Caroline, and stopping short, she said, with a kind of tearful eagerness, "Dear Caroline, you are so wise, so kind too; advise me, tell me what is best. I am very unhappy." Miss Merton was moved and surprised by Evelyn's earnestness.
Fleda was going on, but she suddenly became aware that the eye to which she was speaking had ceased to look at the Evelyns, even in imagination, and she stopped short. "Will you trust me, after this, to see Mrs. Evelyn without the note?" said he smiling. But Fleda gave him her hand very demurely without raising her eyes again, and he went.
"Suppose we join him and Lu to-morrow in their morning walk, as we did to-day, and then and there improve the opportunity to discuss this momentous question," suggested Evelyn laughingly. "I am strongly in favor of so doing, provided I wake in season," returned Rosie, and with that they separated for the night.
They all ate heartily. Jack delighted in cooking since the new range had been put up. Terry was an expert at broiling quail and any other kind of game, and they had fresh butter and milk. "Brother," Evelyn said, during the meal, "last night Fred said that you would have to go to town to buy a piano. Are you going?" "Yes, I guess I will."
He was not such a bad judge of make and shape as his father would have had the world believe; and as usual Brazil Silver's judgment proved good. In the appointed time his wife fulfilled her function, and gave him the son he asked of her. The Eton Man Jim Silver grew up neither his father's son nor his mother's. "He's a throw-back to his grandfather," said old Sir Evelyn.
But Evelyn, though she worked hard at decorating the altar, was not moved by the black hangings, nor by the doleful chant, nor by the flutter of the white surplice and the official drone about the grave. All the convent had followed the prelates down the garden paths; by the side of the grave Latin prayers were recited and holy water was sprinkled.
Once, at her earnest appeal, after she had got the young woman telling her about how kind her father had been to her when her mother died, Evelyn consented to write him a letter, but when it was finished, with a flash of her old imperious pride, she tore it across and flung the pieces on the floor, then hastily gathered them up and put them in the stove.
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