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However, after the decree, his one thought was for Beatty. His whole soul has been wrapped up in that child from the first moment she was put into his arms. When he first realized that his wife meant to take her from him, Boyson tells me that he seemed to lose his head. He was like a person unnerved and bewildered, not knowing how to act or where to turn.
Two ladies beyond Mrs. Phillips made vague inclinations, and young Barnes raised his hat. The whole party walked on up the hill. The General and Captain Boyson fell into a discussion of some military news of the morning. Roger Barnes was mostly occupied with Miss Boyson, who had a turn for monopoly; and he could only glance occasionally at the two ladies with Mrs. Phillips. But he was conscious that the whole group made a distinguished appearance. Among the hundreds of young women streaming over the lawn they were clearly marked out by their carriage and their clothes especially their clothes as belonging to the fastidious cosmopolitan class, between whom and the young school-teachers from the West, in their white cotton blouses, leathern belts, and neat short skirts, the links were few. Miss Floyd, indeed, was dressed with great simplicity. A white muslin dress,
Tell me everything you can remember about Beatty that last six months and about her illness, you understand never mind repeating what you told Boyson, and he told me. But there's lots more, there must be. Did she ever ask for me? Boyson said you couldn't remember. But you must remember!" He came closer still, his threatening eyes upon her.
"All very well!" said Boyson presently. "But a fog at Niagara is no joke!" The night stole on, and the cloud through which they journeyed grew denser. Up crept the fog, on stole the night. The lights of the canal faded, the orchards sank into darkness, and when the bride and bridegroom reached the station on the Canadian side the bride's pleasure had become dismay.
And another man whom I met casually, in Pall Mall this morning and had half an hour's talk with an American naval officer an old acquaintance of Elsie's Captain Boyson will join us also. I met him at Harvard before our wedding, and liked him. He has just come over with his sister for a short holiday, and I ran across him." "Is there any particular point in his joining us?"
Her neck, the General thought, was the slenderest he had ever seen, and the slight round lines of her form spoke of youth in its first delicate maturity. He followed her obediently, and they were all soon in the garden again, and free of the crowd. Miss Floyd led the way across the grass with the General. "Ah! now you will see the General will begin to like us," said Miss Boyson.
Boyson shook his head, lit a cigar, and spent some time longer pacing up and down the veranda. When he went to his wife's room he found her asleep, a vision of soft youth and charm. He stood a few moments looking down upon her, wondering in himself at what he had done. Yet he knew very well that it was the stirring and deepening of his whole being produced by love that had impelled him to do it.
Half-way up the hill Roger suddenly raised his hat. "Who is it?" said the General, putting up his eyeglass. "The girl we met last night and her brother." "Captain Boyson? So it is. They seem to have a party with them." The lady whom young Barnes had greeted moved toward the Englishmen, followed by her brother. "I didn't know we were to meet to-day," she said gaily, with a mocking look at Roger.
"I am ashamed to remind you, Barnes, again that your case is no worse than that of scores of American citizens. We are the first to suffer from our own enormities." "Perhaps," said Barnes absently, "perhaps." His impulse of speech dropped. He sat, drearily staring into the fire, absorbed in recollection. Penrose had gone. So had Boyson.
With a stiff inclination she turned in the direction of the hotel, but Captain Boyson stood in her way. She saw a face embarrassed yet resolved. "Mrs. Barnes, may I speak to you a few minutes?" Daphne gave a slight laugh. "I don't see how I can prevent it. So you didn't follow me, Captain Boyson, out of mere regard for my personal safety?"
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