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"Dig out a plot, escape from three cops, fight an assassin, then say it was nothing. That's incredible!" So they'd succeeded in worming part of the story out of her, Medart thought. Just the basics, most likely, so they'd let her eat, and there was no harm in that; everyone would find out soon enough. "You can't shrug it off that lightly, 'Rina," someone else said. "That'd get one of us a medal.
"When I had made my choice, they told me the captain was waiting dinner for me; and accordingly, on entering the principal room of the inn, I found a table spread for the captain, Mademoiselle Rina, the lieutenant, and myself. There were several other tables for the rest of the banditti. The room was lighted up with at least three hundred wax candles. "The dinner was a merry one.
"It was lucky, for the bow had fallen from my hands at the news I had just heard. Rina made one bound to the door, and then turning, as if she had been on the stage, curtsied to the audience, and kissed her hand to the captain. The applause was deafening; I doubt if she had ever had such a triumph. "'And now, to arms! cried the captain. 'Prepare a horse for Rina and another for the musician.
"'Erbe't," she whispered, "my head is so full of things I am near crazy wit' thoughts! And my tongue is in a snare; I cannot speak at all!" Mabyn's only comment was a sort of grunt, which meant anything or nothing. Rina was encouraged to creep a little closer. "Oh, 'Erbe't, I love you!" she whispered. "I am loving you every minute! I so glad you marry me, 'Erbe't!"
Rina, divining his thought, coolly lifted the pail to her lips, and drank of it. Once more he felt himself rebuked. Left alone, his thoughts reverted to Mabyn. What would he have been plotting all this time? he wondered; what stand would he take in this new posture of affairs?
My trip North during the summer of '98 was very much saddened by the illness and death of my aunt Rina Rivers, whom I had learned to love as a mother, and to whom I always feel that I owe my life, for had it not been for the care she gave me during my sickness, I could not have stood the ordeal.
He left Rina and Charley with a better will, knowing she could doubtless get others, as she had snared the first. There was about ten inches of snow on the flat, with deep encumbering drifts in the hollows; and his advance was very slow. The ill-nourished horse wearied immediately; and any pace beyond a walk was out of the question.
Frankness had served Garth in good stead before this; and finally he told her the plain truth in such terms that she could understand. "This feeling Mabyn has for her," he insisted in the end, "is only a passing one. If we can get her out of his sight all will go on as before." Rina nodded. Her inscrutable face softened a little, he thought. "I on'erstan' now," she said quietly.
Later, reaching the shack, on the threshold Rina spread out her arms with an unconscious gesture. "This is my home!" she cried. "I will jus' love it!" Mabyn looking around at the gaping walls, the empty panes and the foul litter, laughed jeeringly at her simplicity. The girl was too happy to feel the sting. "I will fix it!" she said stoutly. "I will mak' it like an outside house.
He'll come through all right!" he said to Rina more than once perhaps because he needed secretly to reassure himself. Rina, preoccupied with her own heavy thoughts, did not seem to care either way. About ten o'clock they descended into a considerable coulée whose stony bed still contained some standing pools.
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