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I halted three paces in front of her. There was no answering welcome on her face, only a cold little smile that showed she knew me. "Jacqueline!" I cried. "It is I, Paul! You know me, Jacqueline?" Jacqueline inclined her head. "Oh, yes; I know you, monsieur," she answered. "Why have you come here?" "To see you, Jacqueline! To save you, Jacqueline!" She made me a mocking courtesy.
"I care neither for Mr. Lee nor Mr. Allen," said Jacqueline, with a burning cheek. "Oh, Uncle Edward, make Uncle Dick let me go!" "It is not wise," Major Churchill considered within himself, "to push a woman too far. I'm a suspicious fool to think this thing of Jacqueline. It's all some girl's fancy or other, and if we go easily Cary will yet win by God, he shall win!
When she attempted to allude to the subject on which Jacqueline had spoken to her at the convent, and to ask her what it was that had then made her so unhappy, Jacqueline cried: "Oh! my dear, I have forgotten all about it!" But there was exaggeration in this profession of forgetfulness, and she hurriedly drew Giselle back to the game of croquet, where they were joined by M. de Talbrun.
No doubt M. de Cymier was most assiduous in his attendance on the receptions and dances at Madame de Nailles's, but he was there always at the same time as Madame de Villegry herself. They would hold whispered conferences in corners, which might possibly have been about Jacqueline, but there was no proof that they were so, except what Madame de Villegry herself said.
Of Marien she thought: "He sits there as if he had been put 'en penitence'." No doubt he could not endure scenes, and the one he had just passed through must have given him the downcast look which Jacqueline noticed with contempt. What she did not know was that his depression had more than one cause.
"But there's Jacqueline," cried Fred, in a sudden outburst, and already feeling better because he could mention her name. "Allons, donc! You don't mean to say anything against Jacqueline?" cried Giselle, clasping her hands with an air of astonishment. "What can she have done to scandalize you poor little dear?"
Giselle's sad smile seemed to answer, "No need I am aware of it I know my husband." Encouraged by this, Jacqueline went on with her confession, hiding nothing that was wrong, showing herself just as she had been, a poor, proud child who had set out to battle for herself in a dangerous world.
He had seen Fred so seldom, and Tonquin had so changed him that he spoke in his presence without supposing any one would interfere. I dare not tell you what he said " "Whatever spite or revenge suggested to him, no doubt," said Jacqueline. "Listen, Giselle Oh, you must listen. I shall not be long."
"It is I," said a voice at her elbow, and she turned to look into the dark eyes of Jacqueline. "So he's gone?" asked Jack bitterly. She fingered the butt of her gun. "I thought well, my chance at him is gone." "But what " "Bah, if you knew you'd die of fear. Listen to what I have to say. All the things I told you in the cabin were lies." "Lies?" said Mary evenly. "No, they proved themselves."
Jacqueline, there is that within me that will not rest, that cries for power, and that overrides obstacles! See what I have overridden since the days beneath the apple tree! I am not idly dreaming. Conditions such as exist to-day will not arise again. Upon this continent it is the time of times for the bold the wisely bold. This that beckons is no mirage in the West; it is palpable fact.
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