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He had beaten lower his rival and wedded firmer to the beaten man the love he prized above all else. In his ears rang the girl's words, "Wait, wait, wait." Irresponsibly he repeated to himself, "All things come to them that wait." Seated in the car swift whirled toward the city, he was almost surprised to find Farrell by his side. He was like a man in a dream.
As for Mr Farrell himself, so far from looking forward to the interview with foreboding, he seemed in an unusually amiable frame of mind as he took the head of the table on Sunday evening, actually deigning to question his guests as to the day's doings, and the impressions which they had received.
Ten wagons passed thus, without a movement or sound from the men lying concealed almost within arm's reach of the unconscious guards. Farrell never stirred, and I scarcely ventured to breathe. Then there came another squadron of Rangers, an officer riding alone in front, the black shadow of another section of the wagon train looming over the ridge behind them.
The young man, the husband, was well enough apparently a gentleman; but Miss Farrell felt that she would have forgotten his existence when the tea-party was over. So she had fallen back on conversation with her cousin.
They had left the door ajar, and I had a glimpse through the crack. Farrell was leaning carelessly in the outer doorway, smoking, his short legs wide apart, his expression one of total indifference. A big fellow stepped past him, and saluted some one just out of sight. "Nobody in there, sir," he reported. "All right, Mason," and Grant came into view on a rangy sorrel.
Miss Farrell was surprised to find her employer already in his office when she unlocked the door at eight o'clock the next morning, and her surprise was increased when Harwood, always punctilious in such matters, ignored the good-morning with which she greeted him. The electric lights over Dan's desk were burning, a fact not lost upon his stenographer.
Absorbed in anticipations of the morrow, when first he should set foot in Calcutta and take the first step in pursuit of Sophia Farrell, he had absent-mindedly neglected to empty the pockets of his discarded clothing.
Victor's eyelids sank, and a dull red flush showed on his cheeks. "It is impossible!" he protested. "Why will you conjure up such a position? Mr Farrell has never mentioned his niece's name since she left the Court. He treats me like a son; I come and go as I choose. It is preposterous to believe there can be any doubt on the subject!" "But suppose there were?
And the meaning of that fact that possibility was writ so large on Nelly's physical aspect, on Nelly's ways and plans, that there was really no getting away from it. Also there were other people to be considered. Bridget did not at all want to offend or alienate Sir William Farrell now less than ever.
"As bad as that? Really? I must be ferocious! It's rather unkind of you to pitch into me like this, Miss Mollie, when I have just been paying you compliments. It's a good thing I am going away so soon, as I am such a desperate character. There is no saying to what lengths Mr Farrell and I might get if we were long together." "Oh!" Mollie's face sobered, and a little chill came over her spirits.
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