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Now, Wenna, don't think about it. Come with me. We shall be married in London: Mabyn is coming with you." For one brief second or two she seemed stunned and bewildered: then, looking at the carriage, and the earnest suppliant before her, the whole truth appeared to flash in upon her. She looked wildly round.
It was Rina did it; day and night she never left him! "The investigation ended in a love feast that's what Garth called it. Old Colonel shook hands with Garth and me, and said we were heroes, by Gad! He's a bird. Garth wouldn't prosecute Mabyn; and he was let out from under arrest. "The winter had set in by that time; and Garth and I couldn't get out till the ice formed.
The Christmas and the New Year passed without any message from Mr. Roscorla; and Mabyn, though she rebelled against the bondage in which her sister was placed, was glad that she was not disturbed by angry letters. About the middle of January, however, a brief note arrived from Jamaica. "I cannot let such a time go by," Mr.
At first they dared not believe they could really be free of their enemy so easily; and they continually found themselves listening for the sound of their return. Garth saddled Cy at last; and rode along the trail to the top of the bench. He saw Mabyn and Rina two specks in the distance; and still travelling south.
Then it is you who are afraid to go down by yourself? Oh, Mabyn!" "Never mind, Wenna: let's go down through the wood, just for fun." So the two sisters set out arm in arm, and through some spirit of mischief Wenna would not speak a word. Mabyn was gradually overawed by the silence, the night, the loneliness of the road, and the solemn presence of the great living vault above them.
He could not pretend to himself that he had forgiven the woman; but since Natalie's pain was mitigated he was cooler; and his sense of justice forced it home on him that Rina, too, had been through her ordeal. In his present desperate situation, his only chance of assistance lay in her Mabyn was an egomaniac, and utterly irresponsible.
"I run against a tree," she hastily volunteered. At the same time her hand stole to her throat to hide certain marks on its dusky roundness. Garth knew instinctively that she was loyally lying. Mabyn had beaten her. He wondered how far the wish to serve the woman she had injured was Rina's own impulse and how far she had been forced to it by Mabyn.
"I come to-morrow," she said and disappeared through the trees. The horses offered Garth his next problem. Since immediately they were turned out they would bolt for the sweet grass of the prairie above, there was no way in which he could secure them from Mabyn, or keep them within reach against a time of need.
Roscorla, of a virago; only, viragoes do not ordinarily have tears in their eyes, as was the case with Mabyn when she finished her indignant appeal. "Mr. Trelyon, do you think it is fair to go and frighten Wenna so?" she demanded. "It is none of my business," Trelyon answered with an air as if he had said to his rival, "Yes, go and kill the girl.
Cornish told me: I've no doubt she had her instructions. He has just driven away to Launceston on his way to London." "Without a word?" "Would you like to have had another string of arguments?" Mabyn said impatiently. "Oh, Wenna, you don't know what mischief all this is doing. You are awake all night, you cry half the day: what is to be the end of it? You will work yourself into a fever."
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