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Hinsdale showed no intention of leaving them in peace to indulge in one of those long and delightful talks that Betty had so anticipated. Indeed it was he, with his coldest expression and his dryest tone, who introduced the subject of the initiation party and demanded to know why Madeline Ayres had neglected Miss Ferris's summons.
Pat Hawe cocked his head to one side, like a vulture about to strike with his beak, and cunningly eyed Madeline. "Considered as testimony, what you've said is sure important an' conclusive. But I'm calculatin' thet the court will want to hev explained why you stayed from eleven-thirty till one-thirty in thet waitin'-room alone with Stewart."
Yes, Madeline, ask your father if he consents; I hail your strengthening presence as that of an angel. I will not be the one to sever you from my side." "You are right, Eugene," said Lester, who was supporting Ellinor, not yet recovered, "let her go with us; it is but common kindness and common mercy."
"It is like a file," whispered Ellinor: "perhaps " "You are right," said Madeline, suddenly rising, "it is a file, and at the bars my father had fixed against the window yesterday. Let us go down, and alarm the house." "No, no; for God's sake, don't be so rash," cried Ellinor, losing all presence of mind: "hark! the sound ceases, there is a louder noise below, and steps. Let us lock the door."
But to save time, perhaps delay, I suggest you take this Mexican, Senor Montes, with you. He outranks Don Carlos and knows the captain of the Mezquital detachment." "Ah! Then Don Carlos is not in command of the forces holding Stewart?" "No." "I thank you, sir. I shall not forget your kindness," concluded Madeline. She bowed to Senor Montes, and requested him to enter the car.
"You mock me," replied Madeline, incredulously; "whom could you select?" Ellinor blushed deeply blushed from her snowy temples to her yet whiter bosom, as she answered, "If I said Walter Lester, could you deny it?" "Walter!" repeated Madeline, "the equal to Eugene Aram!" "Ay, and more than equal," said Ellinor, with spirit, and a warm and angry tone.
Rosa's uncle and her father told her it was wrong to have taken another little girl's toy without asking, and she was sorry when she understood that, but she was happy with her new plaything. In the afternoon Mirabell and Dorothy went home with Madeline. "I want to show you my Candy Rabbit again," Madeline said to her little girl chums.
"You never told us there was danger of absolute beggary, papa," remarked Barbara, in a tone not unlike her mother's. "I ought to have spoken more plainly," was her father's meek answer. "You are quite right, Barbara. I feel that I am to blame." "I don't think you are at all," said Madeline, with decision. "Your letters were plain enough, if we had chosen to pay any attention to them."
Betty's eyes followed Madeline's to the table, and then to "The Quiver," lying in full view where she had dropped it an hour before. There was one chance in a thousand that Madeline meant something besides Eleanor's story, and Betty resolved to make sure.
Yet, slight as had been his pause, Madeline received from it an impression of some strong halting force. A man struck by a bullet might have had an instant jerk of muscular control such as convulsed Stewart. In that instant, as her keen gaze searched his dust-caked face, she met the full, free look of his eyes. Her own did not fall, though she felt a warmth steal to her cheeks.
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