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But she could not bring guests to the gallery when they came to Idlewood for the day. If he would only let a connoisseur go through the place and pick out the best ones the gallery was not so bad! She looked about her with curious, tolerant smile. The boy's gaze followed hers. He had not been in this big room, with the high-reaching skylight, and the vari-coloured pictures and grey walls.
To-morrow the horses would be sent on; and the next day they would all go in the great touring car that would eat up the miles, and pass the horses, and reach Idlewood long before them. No one except Betty and Miss Stone used the horses now. They would have been sold long ago had it not been for the child.
When Achilles spoke again, he was telling her of Alcibiades and Yaxis and of the long days of waiting and the happiness their coming would bring and of her father and mother, asleep at Idlewood and the great house on the lake, ready always, night and day, for her coming "Do they know ?" she asked quickly, "that we are coming?" "Nobody knows," said Achilles, "except you and me."
The brain that could play with a world when it liked, was devoted now, night and day, to a great hospital standing on the edge of the plain, and to the big free ward, and to a dark face, flashing a smile when he came. Miss Stone sat by the boy on the lawn at Idlewood.
And he was whirred away in the great car to the children that needed him, and Idlewood had settled, in its charmed stillness, into the night.... No one would have guessed that it was a state of siege there the world passed in and out of the big gates automobiles and drays and foot passengers, winding their way up to the low, rambling house that wandered through the flowers toward the river and the wood.
"I will ask the questions," Achilles had said, in his quiet voice, and it had been arranged that he should come to Idlewood when the surgeon gave the word. He arrived the next night, stepping from the car as it drew up before the door, and Alcibiades, standing among the flowers talking with Miss Stone, saw him and started and came forward swiftly.
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