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Meanwhile, Lucian Davlin had hastened to Bellair in response to Cora's summons, full of conjectures as to what had "turned up." When the noon train from the city puffed up to the little platform, Lucian Davlin was among the arrivals, and at the end of the depot platform stood the dainty phæton of Mrs. John Arthur.
Philip said he was too much of a sybarite and ladies' man to be wedded to such sports." "Yet he played with Lucian Davlin, and lost heavily?" "True." "Well, is this all you have to tell of Mr. Percy?" "Not quite. About a year before the catastrophe of the hunting party, the uncle who had cared for him during his college career, died.
So she had made a friend of the shady wood, and welcomed back the birds, in early Springtime, with joyful anticipation of Summer rest under green branches, lulled and soothed by their songs. Wandering here, the acquaintance between herself and Lucian Davlin had begun.
After a long and serious discussion of the pros and cons of the case, Olive and Clarence decided they would instruct the detective to transfer his attentions to the Professor, only keeping a general surveillance over Davlin. They began to fear that they were watching the wrong man.
"He is terribly shocked, I fear." Studiously avoiding the necessity of glancing in the direction of Mr. Davlin, she glided from the room. And so the news fell in Madeline's home, and its inmates were affected no more than this: With Cora a renewal of tenderness toward "Dear John," and an increased stateliness toward Miss Arthur and the servants.
"And when your own eyes see the danger, it will be too late to avert it," said Olive, bitterly. "I know your feeling at this moment, and I know the heartache sure to follow your rashness. What are you, and what do you hope or expect to be, to the man you call Lucian Davlin?" She spoke his name as if it left the taste of poison in her mouth.
If she could only know just how these two had separated Edward Percy and Cora Arthur; and what part Lucian Davlin had played in that separation drama. Did Cora know Lucian ten years ago did Percy know him for his rival?
Miss Arthur, who clearly recognized in this lovely young lady the little Madeline of years ago, was so stricken with astonishment that she utterly forgot how appropriate it would be to faint. Cora sat like one in a nightmare. Percy was conscious of but one feeling. True to his nature even here, he was staring at this vision of beauty, thinking only, "how lovely! how lovely!" And Lucian Davlin?
"Snow!" cried Cora, annoyed out of her usual assumption of feebleness; "don't mention it, if you don't want me to die. We won't have snow, if you please, until I can drive in a cutter." Percy laughed softly; his laugh was always disagreeable to Cora, as having an undercurrent of meaning intended for her alone. And Davlin said: "Hear and heed, all ye gods of the wind and weather."
Do go to your room and rest before dinner. Mr. Davlin, at what hour do you dine?" He explained their reason for dining so early, and she said, as she turned again to Cora, "Do lie down, step-mamma; there is still a half-hour before dinner. And now I will go look after my maid."
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