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Hamil; but, like it, very faithful even when in the arid days to come you turn to drink from sweeter springs." "Shiela!" "Oh, no no!" she breathed, releasing her hands; "you interrupt me; I was thinking ist-ahmah-mahhen which way we must go. Listen; we leave the road yonder where Gray's green butterfly net is bobbing above the dead grass: in-e-gitskah? can't you see it?

His was a very fine mind is a finer mind still.... Will you understand me if I say that we often communicate with each other my father and I?" "Communicate?" repeated Hamil. "Often." Hamil said slowly: "I don't think I understand."

The latter reined in and waited while the girl leisurely returned the fowling-piece to its holster. Then, together, they walked their horses forward, wading the "branch" which flowed clear as a trout stream out of the swamp on their right. "It looks drinkable," he said. "It is, for Crackers; but there's fever in it for you, Mr. Hamil.... Look at Gray! He's missed his butterfly.

Then she looked down at Hamil beside her, handing him the cup. "In-nah-cahpoor?" she asked softly; and as he looked up puzzled and smiling: "I asked you, in Seminole, what is the price I have to pay for your cup of water?" "A little love," he said quietly "a very little, Shiela." "I see! like this water, neither warm nor cold: nac-ey-tai? what do you call it? oh, yes, sisterly affection."

And all that day Portlaw fussed and fumed and pouted about the house, tormenting Hamil with questions and speculations concerning the going of Malcourt, which for a while struck Hamil merely as selfish ebullitions; but later it came to him by degrees that this rich, selfish, over-fed, over-pampered, and revoltingly idle landowner, whose sole mental and physical resources were confined to the dinner and card tables, had been capable of a genuine friendship for Malcourt.

"We are going to be delightfully messy in a moment," she said; "let me show you how they prepare an orange in Florida. This is for you you must take it.... And this is for me. The rind is all gone, you see. Now, Ulysses. This is the magic moment!" And without further ceremony her little teeth met in the dripping golden pulp; and in another moment Hamil was imitating her.

"I was hurt.... Then I supposed that you did not mean it. Besides" she looked up with her rare smile "I knew you, Mr. Hamil, in the boat this morning. I haven't really been very dreadful." "You knew even then?" "Yes, I did.

"Well, what the devil does it mean?" demanded Portlaw peevishly. "I can't spare you now. How can I? Here's Hamil all ready for you to take him about and show him what I want to have done " "I wonder what it means," mused Malcourt. "Maybe there's something wrong with the Tressilvain end of the family. The Shoshone Securities people manage her investments here "

Her husband glanced musingly out over the lawn where, in their white flannels, Shiela and Hamil were now seated together under a brilliant Japanese lawn umbrella, examining the pile of plans, reports and blue-prints which had accumulated in Hamil's office since his absence. "He seems to like her," nodded Cardross, "I'm sure he does. Why not?" "They were together a good deal, you said last night."

Upright on his bed he realised that somebody was knocking; and he slid to the floor, still stupid and scarcely convinced. "Mrs. Carrick's compliments, and is Mr. Hamil quite well bein' as the lights is burnin' an' past two o'clock, sir?" said the maid at the door. "Past two! O Lord! Please thank Mrs. Carrick, and say that I am going to do a little work, and that I am perfectly well."