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Dermott knew, when he wrote it, that my father had made that early marriage. It had been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt even to me. I feel sure that he knew nothing of a divorce or he would have mentioned it." "I think," Katrine said, softly, "that Dermott told a story. You remember" her voice broke a little "you discovered long ago he didn't always tell the truth."
"Do look out for him," Katrine had said to Dermott, the night before, between tears and a smile. "I can get through it all right, but I am fearful it may kill Josef. He takes me very seriously, you know." A heavy knocking came. The leader took his place. The overture began, and when the curtain rose Campanali received the genuine ovation which was his due.
'I made the mistake of beating her once, he explained to me, 'and after a man has struck a woman once she'll stick to him forever." If he expected angry speech of hurt remonstrance because of the too evident implication of the story, he was disappointed, for Katrine raised her eyes to his with sad frankness. "I think it speaks a truth, Dermott," she said.
"The last four years of my life have contained something overmuch of Dermott McDermott " And then, the animosity gone from him, "Katrine," he cried, "in Heaven's name, what did I ever do to him? He seems to spend his time trying to circumvent my plans. He hates me so that it seems" he waited for an appropriate word "funny," he ended, with a laugh. "I have sometimes thought he was in love with you.
A great bowl of white roses filled the room with fragrance, and Dermott thought, as he bent over Katrine's hand, that it was all but an exquisite setting for the girl herself. Nearly a year had passed since their last meeting, and naturally Dermott expected some change in her. But Katrine was entirely unprepared for the change in Dermott. She had known but the one side of him in Carolina.
She had hoped that after a few years of the singing Katrine's heart would turn to Dermott, and as she saw her hopes fade away she shook her head knowingly, with even a touch of vindictive satisfaction.
McDermott has been so kind as to send me to you." "It came about in this way," the Countess explained, drawing Katrine to a couch and still keeping her hand. "There was a time when I knew Dermott, my cousin, very well. That was in Ireland, before he became the great man he now is. Since that time we have written to each other always, for he has been kind enough to give me his friendship.
She paused in her talk, and, looking into the hall, saw Quantrelle the Red pass quickly up the stairs with his daily flower for Madame de Nemours. "And, believing that Ravenel did not belong to Mr. Ravenel," she continued, "you encouraged him to build the railroad?" "I neither encouraged nor discouraged that enterprise," Dermott answered. "Fate steered, and did it well." "And Mrs. Ravenel?"
Will you arrange the necessary papers and bring them with you when you come to hear her sing? And I'm hoping I may be still here to greet you and thank you once more for a lifetime of loyalty and devotion." Sitting in his New York office, Dermott read the lines with a face saddened and gray. But the smile, so peculiarly his own, filled with cynicism and humor, came to his lips at its close.
This was evidently a blow to his professional pride. "Didn't any of that great pack come near you?" asked the Admiral sympathetically. "No don't think so," said Dermott shortly. I had counted eight birds flying straight over his butt myself, but I said nothing. I was beginning to comprehend. Et ego in Arcadia vixi. But the obtuse master-mariner persisted.
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