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And she spoke directly to him, proudly, her head erect: "If you've come ag'in your will If dad had to bring you " She paused, her lips trembling. "Shucks," said Catherson gently; "he's come on his own hook, Hagar. Why, he asked me to bring him didn't you, Masten?"
A child four or five years old was playing at their feet at the feet of its father and mother. * The girl came forward and faced the man the man she had sworn to marry. As I said, his ring was on her finger." She paused. People were passing near, and she smiled and bowed once or twice, but Hagar saw that the fire in her eyes had deepened. "Is it strong enough for your picture?" she said quietly.
Hagar blushed crimson and resorted to a lie. "My dad told me. He said he'd heard it." "Well, it isn't true," Ruth told her firmly; "I have never broken with Mr. Masten. And we are to be married soon."
"Then I may thank God," said the Countess, "for vouchsafing to use you as the messenger of His will, and thus, as ever, setting the treasures of mercy by the side of the scourges of His wrath, just as in bygone days He showed a spring to Hagar when He had driven her into the desert." "He measures your sufferings by the strength of your resignation and the weight of your sins."
Trafford yet stood apart from them with his eyes looking into the dense night, and Hagar, all muffled in her great cloak, swayed slowly to and fro with her face hidden. Oh, the suspense and agony of those minutes! the weary watching and waiting for what? It came at last.
The same antinomian spirit is shown in the Epistle to the Galatians by the allegory of the children whom Abraham had by Hagar the bondwoman and Sarah the free wife: "For there are the two covenants, the one from the mount of Sinai which gendereth to bondage, which is Hagar.... But we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise."
Miss Georgie felt blindly for her chair, and when she touched it she backed and sank into it rather heavily. She looked white and sick, and Hagar eyed her gloatingly. "Yo' no like for Good Injun be killum rope," she chuckled. "Yo' all time thinkum heap bueno. Mebbyso yo' love. Yo' buy? Yo' payum much dolla?" Miss Georgie passed a hand slowly over her eyes.
He raised his free arm, and pointed imperiously to the trail. "Pikeway!" he commanded. Viney and Lucy shrank from the tone of him, and, hiding their faces in a fold of blanket, slunk silently away like dogs that have been whipped and told to go. Even Hagar drew back a pace, hardy as was her untamed spirit.
"I'd hope she don't go around peddling that story not that anyone would believe it, but " Good Indian looked at her, and at Evadna. He opened his lips for speech, and closed them without saying a word. That near he came to telling them the truth about meeting Miss Georgie, and explaining about the hair and the knife and the footprints Hagar had prated about.
"You's tired out, chile," said Hagar, with ready sympathy; "better go to bed. I's been makin' ye one in de room jes' side o' Mas'r Dick's. Bes' room in de whole house!" The music had ceased, and Noll left his seat and went groping his way along the dark, echoing hall, through the dimly-lighted dining-room to the library-door.
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