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Reporters are shrewd. And it might be quite serious for her to know that she was being followed and hounded now. She has had a shock." "The bump on the head, you mean?" "Worse than that. I think I'd better tell you since we are all in this thing together." Briefly she outlined the abortive adventure that had brought Io west, and its ugly outcome.
Banneker he must arrange it for me." "We'll see. Now you go back to bed and sleep." "I'd rather sleep here," said Io. "The fire is so friendly." She curled herself into a little soft ball. Her hostess threw a coverlet over her and returned to her own room. When light broke, there was no question of Io's going that day, even had accommodations been available.
The constant succession of hopes, fears, wants, gratitudes, loves, and the necessity of employing his imagination, accounts for all. "Io veggio in cielo scintillar le stelle,"
She had lost interest in the game. The color had receded from her cheeks and now and again her lips trembled. Kenkenes looked and saw that Seti's eyes were adoring Ta-user, who smiled at him. With a sudden rush of heat through his veins, the young artist turned again to Io, and watched till he caught her eye. With a look he invited her to come to him.
Miss Camilla could doubtless give him that. But would she? How much did she understand? Why had she turned so unhelpful? Banneker sat with his problem half through a searing night; and the other half of the night he spent in writing. But not to Io. At noon Camilla Van Arsdale rode up to the station. "Are you ill, Ban?" was her greeting, as soon as she saw his face. "No, Miss Camilla.
Let Medea be fierce and untractable, Ino an object of pity, Ixion perfidious, Io wandering, Orestes in distress. If you offer to the stage any thing unattempted, and venture to form a new character; let it be preserved to the last such as it set out at the beginning, and be consistent with itself.
He intoned slowly and effectively: "Ah, who shall dare to search in what sad maze Thenceforth their incommunicable ways Follow the desultory feet of Death?" Banneker took the book from him. Upon the sonnet a crushed bloom of the sage had left its spiced and fragrant stain. How came it there? Through but one possible agency of which Banneker could think. Io Welland!
When peace was proclaimed, Paine, the untiring advocate of independence, had a right to print his "Io Paean." The last "Crisis" announces, "that the times that tried men's souls were over, and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew gloriously and happily accomplished." "America need never be ashamed to tell her birth, nor relate the stages by which she rose to empire."
But if she were going to divorce Eyre, she'd have done it long ago, wouldn't she? I think she'll wait. He won't last long." "Then our hold on Banneker, through his ability to intimidate The Searchlight, depends on the life of a paretic." "Paretic is too strong a word yet. But it comes to about that. Except he'll want a lot of money to marry Io Eyre." "He wants a lot, anyway," smiled Marrineal.
Wise in her day and her protective instinct of love, Io pointed out that the more he was identified with her set, the less occasion would there be for comment upon their being seen together. And they were seen together much.
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