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As Kenric, leading Elspeth forward, walked slowly up the aisle, Allan did not fail to notice that his sword was not in its accustomed place. The abbot paused until Earl Kenric had taken his seat between Sir Allan Redmain and Ailsa. Kenric caught. Ailsa's hand and drew it gently to him. He looked down into her eyes as she turned to smile upon him.
A gun-boat was to take one of the Commission's steamers to Fortress Monroe, and all that day the fleet kept on firing at our at the Confederate batteries over the river" she corrected herself wearily "and I was so afraid, that Ailsa's steamer would try to get out " "Did it?" "I don't know.
Next afternoon he came again, and lingered, though neither he nor Ailsa spoke of Berkley. And the next afternoon he reappeared, and sat silent, preoccupied, for a long time, in the peculiar hushed attitude of a man who listens. But the door-bell did not ring and the only sound in tile house was from Ailsa's piano, where she sat idling through the sunny afternoon.
Aside from his money, the gems were the only articles he possessed of the slightest value or significance. Half persuaded that the diamonds and pearls afforded the booty for which his visitor had searched, he was once more in doubt as to whether he had lost Ailsa's letter or not. He might find it still among his things, at his room in Forty-fourth Street.
"Stop it, Letty dear! I won't let you become morbid. Think of your beautiful watch! Think of dear Dr. Benton." "I I am," gasped Letty, and fell to crying again until she sobbed herself to sleep in Ailsa's tired arms. Supper was spread in Dr.
They had been seated in Celia's room, mending by candle-light, and the steward who brought the message was awaiting Ailsa's response, and Celia's lifted eyes grew curious as she watched her sister-in-law's flushed face. "Say to Captain Hallam that I will come down, Flannery." And when the hospital steward had gone: "Captain Hallam is a friend of Colonel Arran, Celia."
I feel sure that his little lordship will be quite all right in a day or two, although I shall, of course, be glad to learn how he progresses. May I? Perhaps Miss Lorne might be persuaded to send me a word or two through Mr. Narkom." Lady Chepstow was still looking at him as she had been from the moment he had taken Ailsa's hand. Now she put out her own to him. "Why wait for written reports, Mr.
Gray turned upon the consul the same look of gravity that he had worn on the yacht the same look that the consul even fancied he had seen in Ailsa's eyes. "That's exactly where you're mistaken in her," he said slowly. "A girl like that gives her word and keeps it. She waits, hopes, accepts what may come breaks her heart, if you will, but not her word. Come, let's talk of something else.
Ailsa laid a pink bow against her hair and glanced at her sister-in-law for approval. "I declare. Honey-bud, you are all rose colour to-day," said Celia Craig, smiling; and, on impulse, unpinned the pink-and-white cameo from her own throat and fastened it to Ailsa's breast. "I reckon I'll slip on a gay gown myse'f," she added mischievously.
Unremembered by Garrison, Ailsa's last letter still reposed in the pocket, its romance laid forever in the lavender of rapidly fading memories.
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