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Nay, nay, said the townsman, that may not be; for waste is that house now; there is none dwelleth there, save, it may be, now and again a wandering carle or carline abideth there a day or two. Said Birdalone: How hath that befallen? or where is gone Sir Hugh, the Green Knight?
She had seen Gus Carline stumble into her cabin, and with angry defiance she had acted with the intention of doing to him what she had done to Prebol but she had missed deliberately when she shot. When she recalled the matter, she saw that for weeks she had been living in a false frame of mind; that she was desperate, and not contented; that she was afraid and that she hated fear.
He could not associate the girl of the pictures with the island shack, with this weakling man, nor yet with the Mississippi River at least not at that moment. "She's beautiful," he exclaimed, sincerely. "Yes, sir." Carline packed the pictures away. He started the motor, straightened the boat out and steered into mid-stream, looking uncertainly from side to side.
But great shame and grief had Thorbiorn Angle from all these words. <i>Of the Carline's evil Gift to Grettir</i>. Now wore away the time of autumn till it wanted but three weeks of winter; then the carline bade bear her to the sea-shore. Thorbiorn asked what she would there. "Little is my errand, yet maybe," she says, "it is a foreboding of greater tidings."
So much spake the carline by her words that the needle of nature stirred somewhat. The lady asked who the knight might be. "Who is it, lady? A-God's name! I may well name him. It is the lovely, the valiant, the hardy Sir Raoul, who is one of the mesney of thy father; the kindest heart men wot of."
"We call her the Lady of Abundance," said the old woman. Said Ralph: "Is she a good lady?" "She is my lady," said the carline, "and doeth good to me, and there is not a carle in the land but speaketh well of her it may be over well." "Is she fair to look on?" said Ralph. "Of women-folk there is none fairer," said the carline; "as to men, that is another thing."
They had it all determined: Carline was to be wedged away with his friend, a cotton broker that Daisy Nelia's newfound accomplice knew, and Terabon was to be tempted to "do the Palace," and he was to be caught unaware, by Nelia, who wanted to dance with him, dine with him under bright lights, and drink dangerous drinks with him.
Hearken to the lovely lady! quoth the carline, how she deemeth me to be none other than the great God himself, to hold the winds in the hollow of my hand, and still the waves with a word! What! am I wrought somewhat after his image, kind ladies? And she grinned horribly therewith. Then she said again: As to thy remedy, sweetling, meseemeth it nought.
He threw chunks on the fire and went toward the bed, but as he stood by it the world grew black before his eyes and clutching about him, he sank to the floor. Nelia Carline would not return to that miserable little river-bottom cabin where she had grown up in unhappy privation. She had other plans.
Then a whisper that became a rumour, which at last seemed to be a fact, said that Nelia Carline was somewhere down Old Mississip'. Someone who knew her by sight was reported to have seen her in Cape Girardeau, and the husband raced down there in his automobile to see if he could not learn something about the missing woman, whose absence now proved what a place she had filled in his heart.
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