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"My child," said George Brudenell simply, again remembering only how young she was as he spoke to her thus protectingly, "stay if you wish, and as long as you wish. You shall leave only when you yourself desire it." "I shall not do that," murmured Alexia softly; and then, having no further excuse for remaining, he went away.
That done, he turned to the judge and said: "We must take Katie with us, ask Mr. Brudenell to accompany us, and drive first to the office of our consul. We shall require official assistance in the recovery of these servants. We must be quick, for we must get all this business settled in time for the sailing of the 'Cadiz, in which we must return to England, and take these negroes with us.
Brudenell, like all the other passengers, were so ill as still to hate the sight of a human being. Leaving them in the care of the stateroom steward, Ishmael went to see after his old retainer. The professor was up, clothed, and in his right mind. "You see I made an effort, Mr. Ishmael, sir, and a successful one, so far as getting on my feet was concerned.
Again Herman Brudenell stamped impatiently, frowned, bit his lips, and said: "You shall not goad me to anger with the two-edged sword of your tongue, Hannah! You are unjust, because you are utterly mistaken in your premises! I did leave that check of which I speak! And I wish to know what became of it, that it was not used for the support and education of Ishmael.
He is still on the Continent somewhere; hiding from his creditors, it is said." "And his unhappy wife?" "Is on her voyage to America. I have sent them all home, Ishmael. They must live quietly at Brudenell Hall."
I glory in him, for he is now my son also," said this generous woman fervently. Herman Brudenell raised her hand and pressed it to his lips. "Oh, Herman, I knew it! I knew it twenty years ago, when I went to the Hill Hut and begged the babe to bring up as my own," she said. "You did, Berenice? How divinely good you are." "Good! Why, I only sought my own comfort in the babe.
The air of sterility, in spite of the woodlands so far down below, in spite of the attenuated grass on which they stood, inspired a profound sense of repugnance. To the mind of Bill Brudenell, at least, it was a land of hopelessness, a land of starvation and despair. He turned to his companion at last, and his voice rang with deep feeling. "Fierce? Gee!
I do not wish to go to Brudenell, Nora. Nothing can ever polish me into a fine lady; so I should be out of place there even for a day. Besides it would be awkward on account of the house-servants, who have always looked upon me as a sort of companion, because I have been their fellow-laborer in busy times.
No, I feel that I can make her no atonement," said Mr. Brudenell bitterly. "No, sir; you can make her no atonement, but you can make her happy. And that is all she will need," said Ishmael gravely and sweetly. "If I thought I could, Ishmael, I would hasten to her at once. In any case, however, I must go to her, acknowledge the wrong I have done her and ask for pardon.
And he let Brudenell Hall once more, and took up his abode at a cheap watering-place on the continent, where he remained for years, passing his time in reading, fishing, boating, and other idle seaside pastimes, until he was startled from his repose by a letter from his mother a letter full of anguish, telling him that her younger daughter, Eleanor, had fled from home in company with a certain Captain Dugald, and that she had traced them to Liverpool, whence they had sailed for New Tork, and entreated him to follow and if possible save his sister.
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