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"Well, sir, we shot up about a thousand feet more, and then Jones dropped the lunch-basket overboard by accident, and we went up nearly four miles Conly got blue in the face, Jones fainted, and I came near going under myself. A minute more we'd all've been dead men; but I gave the valve a jerk, and we came down like a rocket-stick.
Lacey walked in. He had come for his wife, and when he and the others had exchanged greetings, she rose to make ready for departure. Calhoun Conly rose also, saying to his brother, "Well, Art, perhaps it would be as well for us to go, too; our friends must be tired after their long journey, and will want to get to bed early."
"And Ronald and Conly go well together, making a very pretty name, to my thinking," said Rosie. "Have they heard the news at Beechwood yet?" asked Lucilla. "I think not," replied the doctor; "but I shall take it in my way home, as it will make the drive only a little longer and I need delay there but a moment." Then with a hasty adieu he took his departure. "Art is a very happy man to-day," Mr.
Conly felt for the child, and laying a hand kindly on his head, said cheerfully, "Don't be down-hearted, my boy, your mother will be well enough in a few days, I hope, to stand quite an interview with her youngest son, and perhaps it may do for you to go in for a moment this morning; you may come upstairs with me and wait in the hall till I see how she is.
It was very nice, they thought; almost nicer, just for a change, than going to the larger table down-stairs with the rest of the family. Soon after they had had their supper, their father came in, bringing the doctor with him, for his second visit that day. "Ah! she is a good deal better," Dr. Conly said, when he had examined his little patient.
Also a messenger was at once despatched for Dr. Conly. Zoe stationed herself at a front window of the drawing-room to watch for his coming. Presently Edward came to her side. "Zoe," he said, "can't you go to Miss Deane?" "What for?" she asked, without turning her head to look at him. "To show your kind feeling." "I'm not sure that I have any." "Zoe! I am shocked! She is in great pain."
"Good-night, my dearest, best of fathers," she responded, putting her arms round his neck as he stooped to give her a parting caress. Calhoun and Arthur Conly were now joint proprietors at Roselands. "Aunt Maria," an old negress born and bred on the estate, was their housekeeper, and managed so well that they found themselves as comfortable as in the days of their mother's administration.
But she had scarcely taken out her books, when the sound of wheels on the avenue attracted her attention; and glancing from the window, she saw the Roselands carriage draw up at the front entrance, and Ella Conly alight from it, and run up the veranda steps.
No opportunity of making inquiries about the character or real circumstances of the stranger to whom she committed the happiness of her life, was afforded by Virginia to grandfather, uncle or brothers. Of late Mrs. Conly had ceased to boast of the match scarcely mentioned Virginia's name; and Mr.
Conly in anguished accents, rising as if to go, but instantly falling heavily to the floor. Virginia rushed to her side, half frantic with terror. "Oh, mother, mother, what is it? What have I done! what have I done!
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