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Trelyon," Mabyn said warmly. "Wait to give him a chance to make our Wenna miserable! Is she to be made the prize of a sort of fight? If I were a man I'd pay less attention to my own scruples and try what I could do for her Oh, Mr. Trelyon I I beg your pardon." Mabyn suddenly stopped on the road, overwhelmed with confusion.
You know," she added with a smile, "that it is not pleasant to have any one you care for in the West Indies." When Wenna got home again she told Mabyn. Strange to say, Mabyn did not clap her hands for joy, as might have been expected. "Wenna," said she, "what made him go into the army? Was it to show you that he could pass an examination? or was it because he means to leave England?"
He saw that his own reticence in answering questions inspired the three simultaneously with the idea that he was a detective from outside, in pursuit of Herbert Mabyn for some early sin; and he let it go at that. Garth roused Natalie long before dawn; and they crossed the river by the first greenish light of the East. Garth handled one sweep, Natalie the other; and their labour was great.
"You scoundrel!" he said in cool, incisive tones though he was not a whit less blinded by passion than Mabyn himself "after the kind of life you've been leading up here, have you still the assurance to lay a claim upon her! And to cast a reflection on her good name! Have you no mirror to see what you are? Go in the lake, then, and see the vile record written on your face!" Mabyn was staggered.
Roscorla a good deal more than any tempest of passion into which she might have worked herself. "Is that all?" said he. "You have not startled me with any revelations." "I was going to say," continued Mabyn, "that a gentleman who has really a regard for a girl would not insist on her keeping a promise which only rendered her unhappy. I don't see what you are to gain by it.
And he took the trembling girl and half lifted her into the carriage. "Oh, my love, what am I doing for you this night?" she said to him with her eyes swimming in tears. But what was the matter with Mabyn? She was just putting her foot on the iron step when a rapidly approaching figure caused her to utter a cry of alarm, and she stumbled back into the road again.
He felt he could trust Rina, if she ever got Mabyn among her own people, to keep him from coming back. Thus he would at the same stroke be rid of them, and conserve his rapidly diminishing stores. It was no great matter if they drove off all the horses, for he still had old Cy under his eye for Natalie to ride; and their own journey back would have to be undertaken at a walking pace, anyway.
We shall be able to hide ourselves away pretty well in London, don't you think?" "Of course," cried Mabyn, confidently. "But tell me more, Mr. Trelyon. What have you arranged? What have you done?" "What could I do until I knew whether you'd help me?" "You must bring a fearful amount of wraps with you." "Certainly more than you'll want, I know.
He had learned enough of Rina's mixed character to be sure that this would have a greater chance of coming about if he let her think of it for herself, so he said nothing to her. He was disappointed. Mabyn, too timid to undertake so long a journey without ample supplies, or perhaps too obstinate to go, they remained on the island; and Rina came every day for food.
They drew still nearer. "They are Mrs. Trelyon's horses, and there is no driver." At this moment Harry Trelyon came quickly forward and stood in the road before her, while Mabyn as quickly went on and disappeared.
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