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I shall have Jasper Mellen at me and the Dean too. Do you remember did you ever hear, I wonder, of Box and Cox? They have a knack of coming to me on the same day. Once they met on the doorstep, and each of them turned and fled away. It must have been very comic...." Lucy busied herself with her letters and her coffee-cups. She wished that she did not feel so ruffled, but a walk would do her good.
How how is your sister?" he stammered, addressing Mellen with desperate energy; for Elsie's name came up from his heart with a jerk. "She is quite well," Mellen answered, "and will be charmed to see you; we were expecting you." "That's nice of you. So you've only just got back!
Socially no family stood higher than his in any part of the South. His accomplished wife was a Miss Mellen, whose brother, William F. Mellen, was one of the most brilliant members of the bar that the State had ever produced. She had another brother who acquired quite a distinction as a minister of the gospel.
And with a grin still expanding his broad mouth, the recruit addressed as Mellen came reluctantly sauntering in the trail of his comrade, who had submitted in silence and yet not without a shrug of protest. It was to the latter the corporal spoke when the two had rejoined their associates. "You've got sense enough to know you're not wanted at that diner, Murray, whether Mellen has or not.
I am sure there is nothing to make a fuss about. I found the bracelet among a lot of rubbish in one of Bessie's drawers I suppose she forgot it was there." Grantley Mellen turned furiously towards her. "Are you learning to cheat and lie also?" he said. Elsie burst into a passionate flood of tears. "You are just as cruel and bad as you can be!" she moaned. "You ought to be ashamed to talk so to me!
Come here, Grantley, and help me in this old song you like so much." "In a moment, dear," he replied. Mellen left the room, fearing that Elizabeth might be drawn away by a headache. He had never felt so tenderly solicitous about her. These last weeks of sunshine had made his proud nature kindly genial. He was anxious to atone for all his old suspicions and little neglects of her comfort.
"But we all know when we aren't," Weldon replied succinctly. Faintly from the room below came the sound of a piano and of a hushed girlish voice singing softly to itself. "It all depends on one's point of view," Carew said, after an interval. "I am living in a seven-by-nine room in a hotel, and Miss Mellen is seventy-two miles and three quarters away.
The party mounted at last, and cantered in a gay cavalcade across the lawn, leaving the mansion behind them almost in solitude. It was a lovely day, bright with sunshine, and freshened by a cool breeze from the ocean. Mrs. Mellen that day seemed among the most joyous of the party.
She had a school-friend, to whom she had been greatly attached; a girl older than herself, and so different in every respect, that it was a wonder Elsie's volatile character had been attracted to her, or that her liking had been reciprocated. This was the state of events when Mellen returned from Europe. Elsie's account of her friend interested him in the unfortunate girl.
You had better send for her, or give me her address and I will call and tell her how much she is wanted the moment I reach town. To-night I stay in the village." "Thank you, I won't trouble you," replied Mellen. "You will be here to-morrow morning?" "Oh, certainly! Don't be at all alarmed Miss Elsie is subject to these nervous attacks. So I shan't call on your wife?"
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