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She believed that the way would open out before her as she went. She had made one great mistake. She would never make such another. She would be patient. It might be in time that to her, even as to her friend, a blossoming might come out of the barren soil in which her life was cast. During those months spent at Bhulwana with the surgeon's wife a measure of peace did gradually return to Stella.
She has been at Bhulwana in the Hills for the past three months. Now, St. Bernard, is this as you like it?" The big man took the glass, looking at him with a smile of kindly criticism. "Well, you won't bore each other at that rate, anyhow," he remarked. "Here's to you both! I drink to the greatest thing in life!" He drank deeply and set down the glass. "Look here! You're just off to mess.
She believed he watched her narrowly though he certainly had no appearance of doing so, and the suspicion made her nervous. There were a few Lady Harriet among the number who condemned Udalkhand from the outset as impossible, and departed for Bhulwana without attempting to spend even the beginning of the hot season there. Netta Ermsted also decided against it though Mrs.
The blue jay was still laughing on the pine-clad slopes of Bhulwana when Stella returned thither. It was glorious summer weather. There was life in the air such life as never reached the Plains. The bungalow up the hill, called "The Nest," which once Ralph Dacre had taken for his bride, was to be Stella's home for the period of her sojourn at Bhulwana.
His face wore a curiously stony look, but his eyes burned with a fierce intensity. He spoke without apology or preliminary of any sort. "I have just had a message, sir, from Bhulwana," he said. "I wish to apply for immediate leave." The Colonel looked at him in surprise. "A message, Captain Monck?" "From my wife," Monck said, and drew a hard breath between his teeth.
Then when the summer came we had to separate. I went to Bhulwana for the birth of my baby. And while I was there, he heard that Ralph Dacre's wife had died in England only a few days before his marriage to me. That meant of course that I was not Everard's legal wife, that the baby was illegitimate. But I was very ill at the time he kept it from me." "Of course he did," said Sir Reginald.
"And he's going to be a public character is Uncle Everard, so he is wise to make the most of his privacy now. Ah, Bhulwana," he stretched his arms to the pine-trees, "how I have yearned for thee!" "And me too," said Tessa jealously. He looked at her. "You, you scaramouch? Of course not! Whoever yearned for a thing like you?
"God bless you, little one!" he said. Later, when Major Ralston had seen her again, they had another conference. The doctor's suspicions were fully justified. Tessa would need the utmost care. "She shall have it," Bernard said. "But I can't leave Stella now. I shall see my way clearer presently." "Quite so," Ralston agreed. "My wife shall look after the child at Bhulwana. It will keep her quiet."
It was the rich bestowal of a woman's full treasury, than which it may be there is nought greater on earth. Bhulwana in early spring! Bhulwana of the singing birds and darting squirrels! Bhulwana of the pines! Stella stood in the green compound of the bungalow known as The Grand Stand, gazing down upon the green racecourse with eyes that dreamed. The evening was drawing near.
"Don't get up to any tomfoolery while I am away! And if you get thirsty, stick to lime-juice!" "I'll be as good as gold," Tommy promised, touched alike by action and admonition. "But it will be pretty beastly without you. I hate a lonely life, and Stella will be stuck at Bhulwana for the rest of the hot weather when they get back."
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