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As this was vacation, and she happened to be resting idly at school, Miss Pender gladly undertook the congenial task offered her; and welcomed Miriam, and then shipped her to Barport with even more than her usual success. When the dear girl had gone, everybody greatly missed her, even La Fleur, for of certain sweets the child had eaten twice as much as any one else in the house.
When Miriam had finished eating, dressed her hurt, and rested a while, they took her to explore the wonders of the place. Beyond this great cistern, that was their common room, lay more to the number of six or seven, one of the smallest of which was given to Nehushta and herself to dwell in. Others were filled with stores enough to last them all for months.
Did I mention that Ciss wrote an account of you in the letter just after she had reached Rome?" Miriam made an involuntary movement as if to withdraw her hand, but overcame herself before she had succeeded. "How did she come to know me so quickly?" was her question, murmured absently. "From Mrs. Spence, it seemed. Come, tell me what you have been doing this long time. You have seen Greece too.
The boy is more rebellious than usual; he presently drums with his feet, and even begins to whistle, very low, a popular air. His sister looks at him, first with astonished reproach, then in dread. Satis superque. Again and again Miriam revived these images of the past. And the more she thought of herself as a child, the less was she pleased with what her memory presented.
"He likes to find his way himself," she whispered. "They tell me there's tea in here," Wayne said, cheerily, from the doorway. "There's more than tea," Miriam replied in as bright a tone as she could assume. "There's Mr. Strange, whom you met last night." "Ah, that's good." Wayne groped his way toward the voices. "How do you do! Glad to see you. It's windy out-of-doors.
"Hast thou the face to ask? Thy mother weeps all day, save when thy father is at home. Then she makes herself as stony as he. He an elder of the synagogue! thou hast brought down his gray hairs in sorrow to the grave." He swallowed a sob. Then, with something of his father's stoniness, "Suffering chastens, Miriam," he said. "It is God's weapon." "Accuse not God of thy cruelty. I hate thee."
I hope the girls will fall in readily with your plan." "I shall have to be as wise as a serpent," smiled Arline, "and as diplomatic as as Miriam Nesbit. She is the most diplomatic person I ever knew." "Isn't she, though?" agreed Grace smilingly. "Yes, my dear Daffydowndilly, you have a delicate task before you.
When Keith told him that Miriam was on the verge of a nervous breakdown simply because of certain trouble into which Shan Tung had inveigled her brother, and that everything would be straightened out the moment Shan Tung returned from Winnipeg, the iron man seized his hands in a sudden burst of relief and gratitude. "But why didn't she confide in me, Conniston?" he complained.
So they went and ate, but during that meal Gallus was very silent, as was his custom when he set his brain to work. Presently he asked: "Tell me, Miriam, did any see you or your companion enter here?" "No, I think not," she answered, "for as it chanced the door of the courtyard was ajar and the servant has not yet returned." "Good," he said.
I s'll be glad if she can." "Yes," replied Mrs. Leivers. "It's a wonder she isn't ill herself." Miriam was moving about preparing dinner. Paul watched everything that happened. His face was pale and thin, but his eyes were quick and bright with life as ever.
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