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"He is a handsome young officer," timidly whispered the girl, shrinking back out of sight. "What can he have in common with my father? I thought he was some old veteran." And the awakened heart of Justine Delande bounded in delight.
There will be two four-wheelers here after yere dinner, and ye'll find the Royal Victoria Hotel suited to ye both, at St. Heliers. If ye choose to go, the morning boat takes ye to Granville. Bring the maid here now! Do you linger, woman? I'll be obeyed and forthwith!" With flashing eyes, Justine Delande sprang up, facing the flinty-hearted old Scotsman. "I will never abandon Nadine here!
"This is to be 'Bride's Hall, and not a 'place of arms'! You are now joint commanders, and so make the best use of your three days liberty! I give up my sword!" That night, while Nadine Johnstone sat in a heart exchange of confidence with Justine Delande and the fair woman no longer Berthe Louison while Flossie Murray was playing hostess with Mrs.
"I know" he slowly answered, "that one of them is Miss or Madame Delande, old Fraser's house duenna I will still call him Fraser, you see the other is the mystery of Delhi. Popularly supposed to be the old boy's daughter, and his sole heiress, Miss Nadine," concluded the young aid-de-camp. "The old curmudgeon keeps her judiciously veiled from mortal ken.
The woman who had deserted the rich nabob. With uneasy, tottering steps the old scholar paced the room, watching the two women in a grim silence, until Justine Delande, with a woman's questioning eyes, pointed to the rooms above.
He was a model of respectable gravity, however, when he presented himself before Mademoiselle Euphrosyne Delande, at her Institute, when the bells clanged ten in the morning. Major Hawke at once impressed the sleek door-opener, Francois, by the ultra refinement of his demeanor, and the suave elegance of his French.
If he is playing fast and loose with the government he will never get his honors before he gives up the sleeping trust of the forgotten years." Major Hawke vainly tried to follow the exuberant Anstruther in his incursion into the placid temple of Minerva, where that watchful spinster, Miss Euphrosyne Delande, eyed somewhat icily the handsome. young "Greek bearing gifts."
He was all unaware that his daughter Nadine was now a woman like her bolder sisters of society, but it was true. The chrysalis was nearing the butterfly stage of life and beating the bars with her wings. The secret exultation of Justine Delande in her shadowy hold on Major Alan Hawke caused her to furtively lead Nadine Johnstone to the head of the great stairway, when Hawke made his adieux.
If the Viceroy returns to England, my promotion will probably carry me with his Embassy to Paris as Major and Military Attache." And then they parted as mere casual acquaintances. "Damn his cool impertinence," mused Alan Hawke, as he caught a passing cab, after telegraphing his greetings and intended departure to Justine Delande.
It had been with a guilty, beating heart that Justine Delande abandoned her fair, young charge to the morning ministrations of a bevy of dark-skinned servants.
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