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But as if not unwilling to let nature make known her own case among his suffering charge, or else in despair of restraining it for the time, the Spanish captain, a gentlemanly, reserved-looking, and rather young man to a stranger's eye, dressed with singular richness, but bearing plain traces of recent sleepless cares and disquietudes, stood passively by, leaning against the main-mast, at one moment casting a dreary, spiritless look upon his excited people, at the next an unhappy glance toward his visitor.
"Now I'm right sorry you didn't get here fifteen minutes ago." The stranger's face flushed under its tan and the broad felt hat, in the right hand, shook perceptibly. "Mr. Martin Morley has gone down The Way to see you. He reckons you will give him a job." At this the man leaned heavily against a pine tree and stared at the girl. Had he heard aright?
"Where is this mysterious stranger's letter?" Gilbert Crosby looked at the writing on the outside, which told him nothing. The contents mystified him, and he had no knowledge of the man who signed it. "Sir," he read, "I have waited for you, having broken my journey to the West against these rebels on purpose to see you.
I remember when passing a couple of days in the opulent city of Rotterdam, that after walking all the morning along its crowded streets, and paying the accustomed stranger's tribute of admiration to its quays, its port, and its commercial magnificence, I at length halted before the statue of Erasmus.
Harland's shoulder he looked the very embodiment of active, powerful manhood. Morton Harland stared at him in amazement and something of terror. "Rafel Santoris!" he repeated "You are his living image, but you cannot be himself you are too young!" A gleam of amusement sparkled in the stranger's eyes. "Don't let us talk of age or youth for the moment" he said.
All that day, and in the week which followed, my thought was ever upon him; a look in a stranger's face, a word on another's lips, by some magic of the mind would bring my brother almost visibly before me, ay, among the noise of swords on mail, and the screaming of arrows, and of great cannon-balls.
Being left alone, Barnwell could but reflect upon the strangeness of the stranger's behavior, for, indeed, he did not seem like a stranger there at all. At the expiration of five minutes the door opened, and, apparently, another person entered the room. "I am told you are in search of one Peter Vola," said he, taking a seat in front of him.
I looked my whole life back and through as though it were some stranger's" He turned abruptly away to the windows and stayed a moment, looking down the drive. Ethel said nothing. He came back to her in a few moments. "I tell you we ought to be taught we ought to be taught, when we are young, what marriage really means, just as we are taught not to steal, nor lie, nor sin.
The stranger's shrewd eyes twinkled, but he was otherwise unmoved. "Perhaps you're right," he mumbled, still plying his toothpick. "Anyway, I'm glad you're not a worm." He drew a large business card from his pocket and held it out. "Come to me if you ever want a man's job." Nelton took the card and held it out as though he had been petrified in the act.
Roxby's face had clouded at the mention of the four sons who had gone out from the mountains never to return, leaving to their mother's aching heart only the vague comfort of an elusive resemblance in a girl's face; but as he noted Millicent's pettish manner, and divined her mortification because of her unseemly head-gear in the stranger's presence, he addressed her again in that jocose tone without which he seldom spoke to her.
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