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Great clouds covered the horizon; large rain-drops began to fall. Joseph covered the head of his young wife with her mantle, and we hastened back to the camp. "Do you fear a storm, Joseph?" asked Alix. "I do not know too much," he replied; "but when you are near, all dangers seem great." We found the camp deserted; all our companions were on board the flatboat.
She had looked at her sister as if she would like to speak, smiled uncertainly, and had gone back to the house. Alix had started on her trip with a heavy heart, but the half-hour's run soothed her in spite of herself, and now she reached the cabin in a much more cheerful mood.
"But I think you would be sorry to have me face what I am facing now. You were always so forgiving, Alix; you would be the first to be sorry." He put his hand over the tigerish pain that was beginning to reach his heart. His throat felt thick and choked, and still he did not cry.
"Yes, there's a blouse. It's in the linen closet; ask Kow for it or get it yourself when you get your towels. You left it the day you changed here after we all climbed the mountain. I hope you people are going to get enough to eat," Peter added, flinging himself into a chair beside Cherry. "He's been cooking it since breakfast!" Alix remarked, departing. Peter laughed guiltily, and Cherry, too.
Then her eyes narrowed suddenly. "Don't don't you think he's straight, Addy?" she half-whispered. "I confess I'm puzzled. I never dreamed of doubting him when I went there. But I've been doing a lot of thinking since I saw him, and, by George, Mary, I'm up a tree. Good Lord, if he should be well, if he should be putting something over on Alix, he ought to be shot, that's all.
"Don't cry, dear!" she said, tenderly. "It'll all come straight, somehow, and we'll wonder why we took it so hard!" "The thing that breaks my heart!" sobbed Cherry, clinging tight, "is that it is all my fault!" "Oh, no; it's not, Cherry. You were too young. And it's only one of so many thousands of unhappy marriages!" Alix argued, soothingly.
Mason jumped into the scrimmage and had him arrested for swindling her out of thirty-five thousand dollars, and the New York police came along with a warrant for " "Yes, yes," she interrupted impatiently. "But Alix is quite different. She is NOT a fool, and Isabel was, and still is, I maintain. You have seen this friend of Alix's. Is he attractive?"
And immediately after that, Alix recalled wretchedly, had come a brief and apparently aimless talk about Alix's rights, and her eagerness to share them with her sister. Cherry had been in misery, of course. Alix knew her too well not to know with what suffering she would admit that the one desire of her heart was for something to which Alix had the higher, if not the stronger, claim.
She was rarely angry; she was unexacting, good-humoured, preferring animals to people, and unconventional in speech and manner. Her father and Anne sometimes discussed her anxiously; they confessed that they were rather fearful for Alix. For Cherry, neither one had ever had a disquieting thought.
With her head against his other, Suzanne crouched upon the floor. We were silent, our hearts beating hard, wishing ourselves with mamma in St. James. Joseph set Alix upon a stool beside him and removed her wrapping. "Hello!" said the younger stranger, "I thought you were carrying a child. It's a woman!" An hour passed. The woman in the corner seemed to sleep; Celeste, too, slumbered.
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