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I can't make out just why, but I think she said it was either because I'm so tanned and a little thinner, or because none of her family were ever addicted to disappearing, or because she has an uncle who's a bishop. I came from Philip." "Philip!" "Yes. He came to Mic-co's the morning I was leaving. Later we met again at a village on the outskirts of the Glades. He waited for me.
Only a freak of fate has stayed my hand. And there is more that I may not tell " "So?" said Mic-co quietly. Flushing, Carl took the outstretched hand. "I I thank you," he said, and looked away. The rooms of Mic-co's lodge opened, in the fashion of the old Pompeian villas, upon a central court roofed only by the Southern sky.
I have yet to see such glow and warmth in the faces of men. They're going back to Mic-co's lodge together for a while. Odd!" he added thoughtfully. "I've known Satterlee for years, a quiet chap of wonderful kindliness and generosity. But I've heard Dad tell mad tales of his reckless whims when he was younger." "And the first paper?" "Satterlee had almost forgotten it. It's so long ago.
"Diane!" said Keela with charming and impartial acquiescence. "Yes, Diane has it, too," assented Carl, and fell thoughtful, watching Mic-co's snowy herons flap tamely about the lodge. "Play!" said Keela shyly. Carl drew the flute from his pocket again and obeyed. "Like a brook of silver!" said the Indian girl with an abashed revealment of the wild sylvan poetry with which her thoughts were rife.
The peace of it all lay in Mic-co's fine, dark, tranquil face as he talked, subtly moulding another's mind in the pattern of his own. He did not preach. Mic-co smoked and talked philosophy. Carl had known but little respect for the opinions of others. He was to learn it now.
Drawing his flute from his pocket, he glanced with a curious smile and glow at a row of notches in the wood. The first notch he had cut in the flute after the rainy night in Philip's wigwam, the second by Mic-co's pool, the third was subtly linked with the marshes of Glynn, and a fourth had been furtively added in the camp of his cousin.
It rose in sweltering clouds of steam about the naked body of Mic-co's guest, who at length plunged from the tent into the chill waters of the lake and swam vigorously across to towels and shelter. Carl learned to pole a cypress canoe dexterously through miles of swamp tangled with grass and lilies, through shallows and deep pools darkened by hanging branches.
He blames himself and me. You'll forgive me?" "I forgive!" faltered Carl. "There were forces driving you," said Diane steadily, "but I was deliberate. Let's pledge to a new beginning. Let me be your friend as Philip is." Their hands tightened in a clasp whose warmth was prophetic. Mic-co's words rang again in Carl's ears.
I! I! I! Who killed him when conscience and duty would have sent him back to the court of his father? I, his cousin whom he loved above all men. You lie. I did love him. I was drunk with the royal glitter ahead. I craved it even as he hated it. Thou shalt not kill! Thou shalt not kill! Mercy! Mercy! I can not bear it." He fell groveling upon the floor and crawled to Mic-co's feet.
"I am ever quiet," said Red-winged Blackbird with dignity. "Mic-co says it is better so." "Why?" "Mic-co only understands, and even to him I may not always talk." She went sedately on with the modeling of clay, her slender hands swift, graceful, unfaltering. Mic-co's lodge abounded in evidences of their deftness. "You have more grace," said Carl suddenly, "than any woman I have ever known."
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