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For when she made her customary appearance at the counter, he noticed a certain businesslike gravity in the paying teller's reception of her, and that he was consulting a small register before him instead of handing her the usual receipt form. "Perhaps you are unaware, Miss Avondale, that your account is overdrawn," Randolph distinctly heard him say, although in a politely lowered voice.
Nevertheless, Randolph remained after office hours and spent some time in examining the correspondence of two years ago. He was rewarded at last by a banker's letter from Callao advising the remittance of one thousand dollars to the credit of Miss Avondale of San Francisco.
Various causes combined to inspire his movement in the present instance. The neighborhood was healthy; the village was so nearly deserted that no curious observers lounged upon the tavern-porch, or sat upon the horse-block at the corner-store; and Mr. Alfred Barton had been seen riding towards Avondale.
In the court, ranked and ready, bridle to bridle were ranged the knights and squires in waiting about the Castle of Avondale, while out on a level green spot on the edge of the moor gathered the denser array of the townfolk with spears and partisans. In an hour the Avondale Douglases were ready to ride to the assistance of their cousins.
Now as the Marshal de Retz was the chief guest, it was impossible for James of Avondale to refuse his offer. Still there was nothing for the brothers from Douglasdale but to make the best of their bargain.
"It is what you might have expected of me before before I had been through all this, with his example to uplift me out of my helplessness and inefficiency. Believe me, Lord Avondale, I am a very different young woman from the shallow, frivolous girl you knew during those days on the Mediterranean." "Shallow! frivolous!" he protested. "Anything but that, Miss Genevieve!
Sunshine above, around us, White caps floating by, None in the world is happier Than you, my love, and I." Little Sprite Seaford felt so completely "at home," that it seemed to her as if she had always lived at Avondale. There were times when she felt homesick.
Consequently, the boundary riders of Avondale had strict orders to hunt all strays and trespassers across the frontiers of stations that did impound; so the fine old squatter-king got there just the same also the carriers' teams and the drovers' horses.
Blake nodded, and followed him down the tree-ladder and back along the cleft to the baobab. There he paused to take down his archery outfit. "Guess I'll keep these, too, as souvenirs," he remarked. He pointed to the blackened strips of flesh on the curing racks. "May I ask Lord Avondale to stay to dinner?" "Very kind, I'm sure. But I've a previous engagement," declined his lordship.
For no suspicion of treachery within the house and name of Douglas itself touched with a shade of shadow the mind of Sholto MacKim. "I have not time to waste, comrades; I would see my lords," said Sholto. "I must see them instantly." And even as he spoke there on the steps before him appeared the dark, handsome face and tall but slightly stooping figure of William Douglas of Avondale.
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