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"What can have become of Greensnake?" exclaimed Hector, as soon as they had time and breath to speak. "I hope that he has not played us false, and gone off with the horses." "I have no fear of that," answered Loraine. "The old hunter would not have sent him with us unless he had perfect confidence in his honesty.
But hadn't she been over all this before? Long ago she had decided what to do. Now, suddenly, she wheeled in the dark road and went hurrying in the other direction. She would go back to Loraine on the doorstep, and laugh and talk. She had decided "for good." The stars came trooping out, and she lifted her face to them with a new sense of peace. They were such friendly, twinkling little stars.
While Hector was away from the camp Loraine thoughtfully employed himself in examining their baggage, and in selecting such articles of food and clothing as they could carry on their backs, and in doing them up in two packs, making the heaviest for himself.
The young ladies at once disappeared into the house, under charge of Mrs Mackintosh, whose maternal feelings had been fearfully tried during their absence. They did not appear again until the evening, when Hector declared that they looked as blooming as ever. Loraine soon won the regard of Captain Mackintosh and Norman.
The Duchess had obstructed as much as she could the marriage of the Dauphin with the Queen of Scotland; the beauty and forward wit of that young Queen, and the credit which her marriage gave to Messieurs de Guise, were insupportable to her; she in particular hated the Cardinal of Loraine, who had spoken to her with severity, and even with contempt; she was sensible he took the party of the Queen, so that the Constable found her very well disposed to unite her interests with his and to enter into alliance with him, by marrying her granddaughter Madam de la Marke with Monsieur d'Anville, his second son, who succeeded him in his employment under the reign of Charles the Ninth.
She had a hard, determined face, and she was well dressed, and not too covered with jewels. "That is a celebrated lady," Count Valonne said. "You must look at her, Madame Loraine; she was one of the best dancers at the ballet, and last year she tried to commit suicide in a charmingly dramatic way at one of Gritzko's parties.
When Loraine pointed to the articles they must abandon, Hector suggested that they should be placed en cache by hanging them up to the bough of a tree, deep in the wood, so as to be concealed from passers-by. They might thus some day have an opportunity of sending for them. "There, you see how at once you can help me," remarked Loraine. "I have been sadly puzzled to know what to do with them."
Let me see, she lives over near Lake Loraine, doesn't she?" This time Feldman could not repress a start. But he covered it admirably by stooping over to pick up a tool that fell to the floor. "No, my mother is in Lafayette," he said. "I don't know where Lake Loraine is." "Oh," said Tom, as he turned aside to hide a smile. He was sure now he knew at least one of the plotters.
"You know, Len," she casually reminded him, "you and I can't dance together. I'm a fair dancer and you are a very good one, but together we can't manage it. There were plenty of other girls, weren't there?" The man's face for an instant worked spasmodically and in pain, then it grew dark. "For me, Loraine, there is never any other girl. You know that. Why do you avoid me as if I were a pestilence?
Loraine, too with his puritanical ways! I know what he thinks of Cliffe. He wouldn't touch him in private. But in public you'll see he'll swallow him whole just to annoy Parham. There's your politician." And stiff with the angry virtue of the "ins," denouncing the faction of the "outs," Lady Parham passed on. Elizabeth Tranmore meanwhile turned to look for Mary Lyster.
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