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Lacey from Chicago held out his hand. "Thee is welcome, friend," said David. "She's ready, I suppose. Wonderful person, that. Stands on her own feet every time. She don't seem as though she came of the same stock as me, does she?" "I will bring her if thee will wait, friend." "I'm waiting." Lacey drew back to the gateway again and leaned against the wall, his cigar blazing in the dusk.
"I begged her to stay long enough for me to have the pleasure of bringing you together, but she felt that she couldn't do so." Miss Lacey flushed. "Oh, we've met, you know," she replied. "Indeed? I didn't understand, then." "Oh, certainly. Of course I met her in Boston when she came on from the West.
"We don't want to remain at home, and neither do we desire to put ourselves under the control of such a man as General Lacey; but there's nothing else we can do, unless we go up to Missouri. Were you really in earnest when you said you intended to start oft tomorrow?" he added, addressing himself to Rodney. "Your decision was made on the spur of the moment, wasn't it?" "Well, no.
"Yes, thus," cried Edith, as with a divine impulse and a great yearning pity she sprang up and threw her arms around Mrs. Lacey. Hope dawned in the poor worn face like the morning. Belief in God's love and sympathy seemed to flow into her sad heart from the other human heart that was pressed against it.
The next morning, Rondeau waited for a long time for his master’s usual orders that he should go to the post office, but no such commands came, and as Dr. Lacey had not been heard moving in his room yet, Rondeau concluded to go at all events. "I know,", said he, "that’ll be the first thing he’ll tell me to do, and I may as well go on my own hook, as to wait and be sent."
Here Julia interrupted her by saying, "I do not mean to refer to Mr. Wilmot. I was flattered by his attentions, but I never knew what it was to love until I saw Dr. Lacey." "Dr. Lacey!—You love Dr. Lacey!" said Fanny, and again she fell back cold and motionless. A second time Julia restored her to consciousness, but for an hour she did not speak or scarcely move.
At the same time she hastily thrust a paper back into her portfolio, which she immediately shut. "What is the matter?" asked Dr. Lacey. "For whom was that sigh and those tears?" "For poor Fan," answered Julia. "I have accidently found a part of an old journal, which she kept while Mr. Wilmot was living." "May I see it?" asked Dr. Lacey.
"They can't rush the store till they get Lacey, an' they can't rush him till they get the store," shouted Neal over his shoulder. "They'd be in a cross fire if they tried either an' that's what licks 'em." "They'll be in a cross fire purty soon," promised Pete, grimly.
The host breathed a sigh of relief, and his sharp eyes began to question Dunham while he collected himself sufficiently to bring forward a chair for the lady. "You honor me, Mar Miss Lacey," he said. "Thank you Judge Trent," she returned, and giving his figure a comprehensive glance from top to toe, she touched her bonnet significantly as she sat down. He did not observe the gesture.
In a few days Florence Woodburn departed for New Orleans, where her mother’s brother resided. We will take passage with her and pay a visit to Dr. Lacey in his Southern home. The house which Dr. Lacey occupied was situated on one of the pleasantest streets of New Orleans.
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