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How they got in how they managed to present themselves who took Leila and Agatha from him where they went where he himself might be he did not understand very clearly. The house was large, strange, full of strangers. That good lady had really rather liked him; he never suspected it. But he couldn't find the rococo room or perhaps he didn't recognise it.
With a renewal of contentment and well-pleased, John called for the rector. They went away into the forest to the cabin. "And so," said Rivers, "this is where the first Penhallow had his Indian fight. I must ask the Squire." "I know about it," said John. "Leila told me, and" he paused, "I saw it." "Oh! did you? Let's hear." They lay down, and the rector lazily smoked.
It was early, one morning, that Leila stood by the lattice of her lofty chamber gazing, with many and mingled emotions, on the distant domes of Granada, as they slept in the silent sunshine. Her heart, for the moment, was busy with the thoughts of home, and the chances and peril of the time were forgotten.
Miss Leila presently said decidedly that unless her mother stood still, the sun, which was indeed sinking low in the western sky, got in everyone's eyes. Miss Edith said that she was dying for tea; Mr. Hoyt's watch was consulted. Four o'clock; it was a little too early for tea.
Their way led across the garden, which was showing signs of feeling the chilly nights of the close of summer in this upland, where the seasons sometimes change abruptly. "The garden has missed Aunt Ann," said Leila. "Uncle Jim looks at it from the porch, says 'How pretty! and expects to see roses on his table every day. I do believe he considers a garden as merely a kind of flower-farm."
Marjorie glimpsed, in passing, the same wealth of colorful leaf and bloom she had so greatly admired when driving through the pretty town the previous autumn. "No signs of them yet," Leila made reply. "I am not grieving. I am wondering if they will be at the Hall again this year. Miss Remson doesn't want them; that I know.
And you should have heard how she sang that! You know the words?" she asked me over her shoulder: "And because I, too, am a lover, And my love is far from me, I hated the two on the sands there, And the moon, and the sands, and the sea." "And the moon, and the sands, and the sea," Dick repeated. He rose, going to the window where Leila had stood, and looking outward.
But, despite all the arguments of the friar, she could not be prevailed upon to render up Leila to the tribunal of the Inquisition; and that dread court, but newly established, did not dare, without her consent, to seize upon one under the immediate protection of the queen.
When Leila sat upon the upper deck of the great Hudson River steamer, she was in a condition of excitement natural to an imaginative nature unused to travel. Her mind was like a fresh canvas ready for the hand of the artist.
She was robed in black; but the rich pearls that were interwoven in the sleeves and stomacher, the jewelled cross that was appended from a chain of massive gold, and, still more, a certain air of dignity and command, bespoke, even to the inexperienced eye of Leila, the evidence of superior station.
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