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Yesterday Harry came crying to me, and told me that one of the neighbor's boys had called him 'nigger." A shadow flitted over Leroy's face, as he answered, somewhat soberly, "Oh, Marie, do not meet trouble half way. I have manumitted you, and the children will follow your condition. I have made you all legatees of my will.
"Oh," she said, and wheeled upon him, but had to laugh too, such was the high glee behind the sweet gravity on William Leroy's countenance. Glee there was, yet, too, something else in the dark eyes laughing at her, something unconsciously warm and caressing. The girl ran quickly up-stairs. And William Leroy, brought to himself, stood where she left him.
In a few days Marie returned as mistress to the plantation from which she had gone as a slave. But as unholy alliances were common in those days between masters and slaves, no one took especial notice that Marie shared Leroy's life as mistress of his home, and that the family silver and jewelry were in her possession.
Doudou acts as my secretary sometimes, you know." The information seemed necessary, as Monsieur Leroy's position had been far from clear. "Baron Goldbirn was associated with Cecilia's father in some railways in South America," said the Countess, "and is her principal guardian. He will always continue to manage her fortune for her, I hope."
One result of this was that I offered to take Leroy's watch, from eight o'clock to midnight, an offer which was gratefully accepted; but as we were running down before a fair wind there was nothing for me to do beyond maintaining a good look-out, and I thus found it unnecessary to give the crew any orders or to interfere with them in any way.
And wouldn't some casual passenger be likely to get his lights put out when the band began to play? Would you want that Boston church to be shy a preacher, ma'am?" Her lips parted slightly in a curve of scorn. "I suppose you had your reasons for not interfering." "Surely, ma'am. I hated to have them make a sieve of me." "Were you afraid?" "Most men are when Wolf Leroy's gang is on the war path."
We went to speak to our hostess. She stood beside her husband, looking taller than ever; and her face was white. Her long red gown of clinging silk was so peculiar as to give one the impression that she was dressed in character. It was easy to tell that it was one of Leroy's fancies. I hardly heard what she said, but I know she reproached me gently for not having been to see them.
"No one really knows what he is or where he springs from; yet he always seems to have plenty of money, and apparently the whole of Leroy's passes through his hands." "Something near a million," put in Parselle enviously, "and with the run of a castle like a palace. No, Vermont's no fool!" Mortimer Shelton nodded. "The Castle's all right," he said curtly.
"I'll back the roan while there's a penny to borrow," he said with sublime confidence. "There's nothing can touch him." "That's what Jasper said," remarked Leroy, "and he ought to know." "Oh, yes, he's a good judge of a horse," grudgingly admitted Shelton, who frankly hated him; "and of men too when it pays him." Leroy's face darkened slightly.
On the evening when the Iowa woman was ordered to leave the west-side house, she waited until she thought the landlady had gone down stairs, and then went into LeRoy's room. It was about eight o'clock and he sat by a window reading a book. The woman did not knock but opened the door. She said nothing but ran across the floor and knelt at his feet.
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