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Several times he peered out into the silent hall, seeing the lamplight shining from the ventilator over Edith's door, and knowing by that token that she had not retired. What was she doing there so long? Victor fain would know, and as half-hour after half-hour went by, until it was almost four, he stepped boldly to the door and knocked.
What followed the birth and removal of Edith's baby up to the time of her return to reason after long struggle for life, has already been told. Her demand to have her baby "Oh, mother, bring me my baby! I shall die if you do not!" and the answer, "Your baby is in heaven!" sent the feeble life-currents back again upon her heart.
But Edith's plan for barn conversation with Maurice fell through, because after supper, with an air of complete self-justification, he said to his hosts, "Now you must hear Eleanor sing!" At which she protested, "Oh, Maurice, no!"
Thus Dudleigh and Edith found a new life opening before them; and though this life was felt by both to be a temporary one, which must soon come to an end, yet each seemed resolved upon enjoying it to the utmost while it lasted. On one of these rides a remarkable event occurred. It chanced that Edith's horse dropped a shoe, and they went slowly to the nearest village to have him reshod.
The stranger sank into the seat, dizzy and faint with the mighty shock, for he knew now that Edith's children were standing them before him that frank, fearless boy, and that sweet little girl, who, not caring to be outdone by her brother, said, in a half exultant way, as if it were something of which she were very proud, "I've got an Uncle 'Ichard, I have, and he's tomin' home bime by."
With poverty returned sundry peculiar propensities which he had manifested in former days; so that Ralph again lost savour in the nostrils of his acquaintance; and the last time that Forrester heard of him, he had got into a difficulty in some respects similar to that in the woods of Salt River from which Roland, at Edith's intercession, had saved him.
Edith's heart sank within her at the thought of landing alone in a strange place that dismal night. It was indeed a new experience to her. But she donned her waterproof, and the moment the boat touched the wharf, hurried ashore, and stood under her small umbrella, while her household gods were being hustled out into the drenching rain.
Harley wrote to his sister, thanking her for her kind offer, and adding that, if convenient, he would bring his daughter Edith, fifteen years of age, to her aunt's home at Silchester in a week's time. There was much to do in that short week in getting Edith's wardrobe into something like order.
"I wouldn't be anything else," retorted Frances, "only I don't care to have fun poked at the way I talk." Win's glance traveled from his sister's annoyed face to Edith's, which wore a look of perplexity. "We're polite," he remarked. "Here's Edith, who wouldn't be anything but English." "No," said Edith gravely. "One always feels that way about one's country. But I understand what Frances means.
"You look very worn and weary, Miss Allen; and if I, as a neighbor, can watch in your place for a while, I think you can trust me to do so." Tears sprang into Edith's eyes, and she said, with sudden color coming into her pale face, "You take noble revenge for the treatment you have received from us, and I gratefully submit to it.
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