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He smiled a grim, dreadful smile. "I am going to see you off. You can go now. Your friend Chesyl can follow by the next train when I have done with him." He had the key in his hand. He stooped to insert it in the lock. But swiftly she caught his wrist. "Jeff, stop stop!" she gasped; and, as he looked at her: "I'm not going away now!" He wrung his hand free.
The girl on the landing above waited tensely for Jeff's answer. It came at last slowly, in a tone that was not unfriendly, but which did not sound spontaneous. "You can do as you like, Chesyl. I have no objection." "All right, then. Good-bye for the present! I hope when I do come I shall find that all's well. All will be well in the end, eh, Jeff?"
And since with you it is otherwise, what remedy is there? You love Hugh Chesyl. You only want to be free to marry him. While I " He broke off in fierce impotence, and began to thrust her from him. But she held him fast. "Jeff Jeff, this is madness! Listen to me! You must listen! Hugh and I are friends, and we shall never be anything more. Jeff, let me be with you! Teach me to love you!
Lightly she mounted, and for a single moment he felt her passing touch upon his shoulder. Then Hector moved away, stepping proudly. Jeff was already in the saddle. "Good-bye!" said Doris, looking back to him. "Don't forget to come and see us!" She was gone. Hugh Chesyl turned with the sun-rays dazzling him, and groped for his gun.
"You're very lazy, Hugh," she said. "I know it," said Hugh Chesyl comfortably. She dropped the pole into the water and drove the punt towards the bank. "It's a pity you're such a slacker," she said. He removed his cigarette momentarily. "You wouldn't like me any better if I weren't," he said. "Indeed I should miles!" "No, you wouldn't." His smile became more pronounced.
The man on the other side of the door, evidently concluding that the waiting-room had not been opened that day, gave up the attempt and passed on. With straining ears Doris listened to his departing footsteps. A few seconds later she saw Jeff's eyes go to the farther window. Her own followed them. Hugh Chesyl, clad in a long grey ulster, was tramping away through the snow.
He would have put her from him, but she snatched her opportunity and clung to him fast with all her quivering strength. He stood still then, suddenly rigid. "I have warned you!" he said, in a voice so deep with passion that her heart quailed and ceased to beat. "Let me go!" But she only tightened her trembling hold. "You shan't go, Jeff! You shan't insult Hugh Chesyl! He is a gentleman!"
"My dear, dear girl!" he said. Her hand lay in his, held in a clasp such as Hugh Chesyl had never before given her, and then all in a moment she withdrew it. "Why, where have you come from?" she said, with a little nervous laugh. His eyes looked straight down to hers. "I've been yachting," he said, "along Argyll and Skye. I didn't know till the day before yesterday about the poor old Colonel.
Yours ever, "Hugh." Something within moved Doris to raise her eyes suddenly, and instantly she encountered Jeff's fixed upon her. The flush in her cheeks deepened burningly. With an effort she spoke: "Hugh Chesyl wants to know if he may come to see us." "I thought you asked him," said Jeff. A little quiver of resentment went through her; she could not have said wherefore.
"You never understand anything without being told," she said. "Don't you know that I positively hate the life I live now?" "I can quite believe it," said Hugh Chesyl. "But, if you will allow me to say so, I think your remedy would be worse than the disease. Your utmost ingenuity will fail to persuade me that the life of a farmer's wife would suit you."
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