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He says he could never read through a second-rate book, and he therefore read masterpieces only; "after Milton, then Shakspeare; then Ossian; then Junius; Paine's 'Common Sense; Swift's 'Tale of a Tub; 'Joan of Arc; Schiller's 'Robbers; Burger's 'Lenora; Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall; and long afterward, Tasso, Dante, De Staël, Schlegel, Hazlitt, and the 'Westminster Review." Reading of this character might have been expected to lead to something; and was well calculated to make an extraordinary impression on such a mind as Elliott's; and we have the fruit of this course of study in the poetry which from this time he began to throw off.
Hamilton ashamed of himself and emboldened, perhaps, by Lenora's words, slipped back the bolt of the door, and walking out, confronted his wife. "Shall I order pistols and coffee for two?" asked Lenora, swinging herself entirely over the bannister, and dropping like a squirrel on the stair below. "Is Polly going to stay in this house?" asked Mrs. Hamilton. "She is," was the reply.
At times her mother petted and caressed her, and again, in a fit of ill-humor, drove her from the room, taunting her with the strong resemblance which she bore to the man whom she had once called father! On such occasions Lenora was never at a loss for words, and the scenes which sometimes occurred were too disgraceful for repetition.
I can see you sitting there, and Lenora and Laura looking as though you had them on the rack. You can drop that, French. I've got Red Gallagher and his mate, got them here with the Sheriff of Bethel. They went off with my auto and sold it. We've got that. Also, in less than five minutes my chauffeur will be here. He's been lying in a farmhouse, unconscious, since that scrap.
"Because you have inspired me with courage and confidence, Lenora; because your love is restored to me fully after a long constraint; because you let me hope that you will not be unhappy. I know what you want to say, noble child, whom God has given me as a shield against every ill! Well, I will encounter ruin without bowing my head, and submit with resignation to the hand of God!
As she entered the garden the outline of a figure; sitting on a bench at its further extremity, made her stop for a moment, but thinking to herself, "I expected it, and why should I be afraid?" she walked on fearlessly, until the person, roused by the sound of her footsteps, started up, and turning toward her, said half-aloud: "Lenora, is it you?"
If you value your lives, you will do as you are bidden." "I don't like the idea of the jungle," Lenora sighed. "Gives me the creeps," Laura admitted, as she climbed upon her horse. "Any wild animals there, Professor?" The Professor became more cheerful. "The animal life of the region we are about to traverse," he observed, as they moved off, "is in some respects familiar to me.
Imprisonment for life will keep him from crossing your path again." Lenora sighed. She was almost ashamed of her feeling of immense relief. "I am very sorry for him," she murmured. "I wish there were something one could do." "There is nothing," Quest replied shortly, "and if there were, you would not be allowed to undertake it.
Lenora's face sank into her hands for a moment. Quest stood on one side while Laura passed her arm around the other girl's waist. Presently he returned. "We can do no more," he pointed out; "we must send for help to bring the body up." "I shall stay here, please," Lenora begged. "Don't think I'm foolish, please. I can't pretend I am sorry, but I'll stay till some one comes and takes it away."
"Let me see, that was the man who was at the Rheinholdts' house the night of the robbery, and who might have left through the conservatory." "He did leave by it," Lenora declared. "He is in a state of panic at the present moment. What else do you suppose he was out there listening for?" "The Professor speaks very highly of him," Quest reminded her.
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