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Next morning there was little said by any one, and not a word by Graeme, but the last glimpse Harry had of home, showed his eldest sister's face smiling and hopeful, saying as plainly as her words had said before, "Harry, I trust you quite."
Craig's manner with me was solemn enough. "He that loveth his life"; good-bye, don't fool with this, was what he said to me. But when he turned to Graeme his whole face lit up. He took him by the shoulders and gave him a little shake, looking into his eyes, and saying over and over in a low, sweet tone 'You'll come, old chap, you'll come, you'll come. Tell me you'll come.
But when the first arrangements were made when the taste and skill of Graeme, and the inexhaustible strength of their new maid, Nelly Anderson, had changed the dingy house into as bright and pleasant a place as might well be in a city street, then came the long days and the weariness.
So they led him to the Avenue, and set his face straight down it, and bade him follow his nose and turn neither to the right hand nor to the left, and then they turned off through the fields by their own short-cut, and went merrily home. Graeme was just finishing a beautiful knot in his tie, when he heard hasty feet crossing the verandah to the open front door.
Then addressing himself to Roland Graeme, he said to him, "Hast thou not a packet from George Douglas?" "I have," said the page, suddenly recollecting that which had been committed to his charge in the morning, "but I may not deliver it to any one without some token that they have a right to ask it."
"Then there's only one thing to do if he agrees, and that is to go with him and bring the property back with you." Charles groaned. "It may mean the Argentine. Spain's no place for investments these days." "It's rough on you, old man, but it's the best I can think of," said Graeme. "And supposing he tells me to go hang?" "Then," said Graeme, with a shrug, "I don't see that you can help him.
Graeme laughed, while Rose clapped her hands. "I am not afraid of the call or the invitation," said Graeme. But they came first the call, which was duly returned, and then the invitation. That was quite informal. Mrs Grove would be happy if Miss Elliott and her sister would spend the evening at her house to meet a few friends.
"Miss Graeme, my dear," said Mrs Snow, with some hesitation, "did you ever think there was anything between your brother Harry and his master's daughter the young lady that Allan Ruthven married or was it only Sandy's fancy?" Graeme's face grew white as she turned her startled eyes on her friend. "Sandy! Did he see it? I did not think about it at the time; but afterward I knew it, and, oh!
At Bath he was again doomed to be disappointed, for his friend had gone to Clifton. Sir Henry dined that day with Mr. Belliston Graeme; and on returning to the hotel, had the interview with Oliver Delancey, that has been described in the thirteenth chapter of our first volume. On the succeeding morning, Delme was with the future trustee; and finally arranged the affair to his entire satisfaction.
"You are like a polished corslet of steel; it shines more gaudily, but it is not a whit softer nay, it is five times harder than a Glasgow breastplate of hammered iron. Enough. We know each other." They descended the stairs, were heard to summon their boats, and the Queen signed to Roland Graeme to retire to the vestibule, and leave her with her female attendants.
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