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Jane came rapidly through the church door, out of the gloom and odour into the warm sunshine and the green glow of the world, her face bright, her eyes gleaming. "He is conscious!" she cried. "He knows me!" When Graydon Bansemer opened his eyes upon the world for the second time it was as if he had been born again he looked up into the eager, wistful face of Jane Cable.
If it was not James Bansemer, then who could it have been? The door opened and an agitated young woman came out. "It is Mrs. Cable," she cried in trembling tones. The physician arrived at that moment, and a few minutes later came an officer who had been hailed from the doorway.
Fernmore, smilingly. "Boys will be boys." "Whew!" whistled Billy, in conclusion. "It was no end of a lark! I would not have missed it for the world; but the old chaps will never, never forgive me." As the gentleman finished, Bansemer was looking at Droom with amusement. The old clerk was shaking his head in a manner that signified disapproval. "How's that for doings in swagger society, eh, Droom?
In her new consciousness she felt that a tragedy was just begun. Cable saw Bansemer leave the house as he drove up to the curb in front. The lawyer did not look back, but turned the nearest corner as if eager to disappear from sight as quickly as possible. Closing the door of his smoking-room behind him, David Cable dropped wearily into a chair without removing his hat or coat.
Her vigil ended when Bray came to lead her away ended because she dropped from exhaustion. The next morning, after a dead sleep of hours, she returned to his side. The surgeon smiled and the nurse clasped her hands with tears in her eyes. Bansemer was breathing thickly and tossing in delirum. It was as if he had been lifted from the grave.
Cable at home?" asked Mr. Bansemer, making no effort to find his cardcase. "Yes, sir," responded the servant after a moment's hesitation. Bansemer passed through the vestibule. "Say Mr. Bansemer, if you please." He removed his coat and was standing comfortably in front of the blazing logs in the library when she came down.
Then he suddenly understood why Jane Cable would not marry the man she had come to find. He asked no questions of himself, but Teresa would have been the result of every conjecture had he done so. "He might better be dead," he thought, his eyes hardening. "She's found him out. Gad, I hope " but he put it from him. Graydon Bansemer did not die within the hour, nor that day.
To Bansemer, it seemed that all his life he had been doing nothing but warding off and ring blows.
"I thought the night was too dreadful for anyone to venture out unless " she was saying as she gave him her hand. "A night indoors and alone is a thousandfold more dreadful than one outdoors in quest of good company," interrupted Bansemer. He drew up chairs in front of the fireplace and stood by waiting for her to be seated. "I had forgotten that Mr.
A moment later the torches in the hands of his friends were burning brightly above the figure of his captive a slender boy who choked with terror and rage. "Who the devil are you, my young friend?" asked Bansemer, holding the boy at arm's length. There was no answer from the tightly closed lips; and Bansemer shook him a little roughly.
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