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Madelene's sad, tearful face flashed through Waldstricker's mind with the suspicions she had aroused against Frederick. Like an angry horse, his nostrils lifted and sniffed the air. Fury against this girl rode in his heart. "You needn't tell us the man's name," he taunted triumphantly. "We already know it." Up struggled Tess to her feet and thrust back the tawny curls feverishly.
"I telled ye and the student that the time'd come when I'd get even with ye both and it air here!... It air here, I say!" "The student ain't nothin' to do with this here brat," retorted Tess. "Ye thinks as how ye knows a heap.... Well, ye don't.... And it air time for ye to be a-goin' now, Ben Letts!" "I air a-goin' to stay," said he, "Daddy's" stool creaking under his weight.
And O, if you knew if you could only half know how I loved him how anxious I was to have him and how wrung I was between caring so much for him and my wish to be fair to him!" Tess was so shaken that she could get no further, and sank, a helpless thing, into a chair. "Well, well; what's done can't be undone!
He could only wait wait the interminable time until the red-brown head appeared and the wide eyes stared into his. Skinner quietly drew his child to the stone sill and placed his fingers over her lips to enjoin silence. Tess understood and even drew softer breaths, holding tightly to the beloved hands. "I comed for kisses on the bill, Daddy," she breathed. "Tess ... air lonely without ye."
"Here let me read the names to you. William Hopkins of the toggery shop, one hundred dollars. Do you know him?" Tess shook her head in the negative. "Deacon Hall and his wife Augusta gave one hundred dollars." "I know her," Tess cried, "and I knows him a little, too. I tooked them berries and fish they has a cottage below the ragged rocks." "And there's the druggist, Mr.
He cut and clipped the words as though he hated them, yet finished his explanation determinedly. As keenly as a darting flame, it burned into Tessibel's soul. "Tell me ... more," she breathed dizzily. "It'll only mean you and I will be apart for a little while, Tess," stated Frederick. "When I get back home, I'm coming straight to you, and "
It was perhaps a week later when young Mrs. Graves felt her first real jealousy. In the happiness of her hasty marriage, she had almost forgotten the story told her by the gossips of Ithaca. It was only when her husband's eyes were encircled and darkened by a far-away expression that Tess entered her mind. But even then, after a glance in the mirror, she dismissed the little singer contemptuously.
But the chukker ended with the same score, 1 0. "How d'you feel about it now?" asked Samson, looking as calm as the English habitually do whenever their pulse beats furiously. "I'd like to bet too!" Tess laughed, leaning across. "What the same sized bet?" "No, a hundred." "Dollars ?" "Rupees!" she laughed. "I'm not so rich as my husband." "Can't refuse a lady!"
Having seen that it was really her lover who had advanced, and no one else, her lips parted, and she sank upon him in her momentary joy, with something very like an ecstatic cry. He had been on the point of kissing that too tempting mouth, but he checked himself, for tender conscience' sake. "Forgive me, Tess dear!" he whispered. "I ought to have asked. I did not know what I was doing.
"Ye takes what ye need to save yer life, or the life of yer Daddy. Folks mostly never steals what they ain't needin'." The message went straight home to Frederick. He could not combat such reasoning. He knew well that he would have frozen but for the timely stealing of the altar-cloth also, he knew that the Bible was as necessary to Tess as the altar-cloth was to him.
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