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As he did so, he removed the muzzle from his nose and quietly let himself out of the house. The next morning, Rusty, who had been Elaine's constant companion since the trouble had begun, awakened his mistress by licking her hand as it hung limply over the side of her bed. She awakened with a start and put her hand to her head. She felt ill.
The country people, who lived round about the castle of Astolat, which was Elaine's home, had another and a very beautiful name for her. As she passed their windows in her white frock, they looked at the white lilies growing in their gardens, and they said, 'She is tall and graceful and pure as these, and they called her the 'Lily Maid of Astolat.
There was no use trying to follow the man further. To Elaine's inquiry of what I meant, I replied by merely going over to the spot where I had hidden the camera and disconnecting it. We went up-stairs where I had rigged up an impromptu dark room for my amateur photographic work some days before. Elaine watched me closely. At last I found that I had developed something.
As they passed, the tramp paused a moment and looked at us sharply. Although he carefully avoided Elaine's eyes, I fancied that only when he saw that she was safe was he satisfied to gallop off and rejoin the cavalry. Around the old hotel, in every direction, Del Mar's men were searching for the tramp and Elaine, while in the hotel another search was in progress.
At last he held it up beside a picture of Galton, I think, of finger print and eugenics fame, who hung on the wall directly opposite the fireplace. Hastily he compared the two. Elaine's picture was of precisely the same size. Next he tore out the picture of the scientist and threw it carelessly into the fireplace.
"Here, Miss Elaine," he urged, pressing it on her, "take this keep it near you!" The noises ceased at length, as strangely as they had begun. Half an hour later, they had all gone back to bed and were asleep. But Elaine's sleep now was fitful, a constant procession of faces flitted before her closed eyes. Suddenly, she woke with a start and stared into the semi-darkness.
Finally Kennedy's eyes opened and gradually his breathing seemed to become more normal. The antidote had been given in time. Kennedy was considerably broken up by the narrow escape which he had had, and, naturally, even the next morning, did not feel like himself. In the excitement of leaving Elaine's we had forgotten the bottle of digitalin.
They were far too correct and rationally minded to intrude themselves on their niece, but it was significant of Elaine's altered view as to the sanctity of honeymoon life that she secretly rather welcomed the presence of her two relatives in the hotel, and had found time and occasion to give them more of her society than she would have considered necessary or desirable a few weeks ago.
Meanwhile Kennedy, beside the couch, with an air of desperate determination, turned away and opened a cabinet. From it he took a large coil and attached it to a storage battery, dragging the peculiar apparatus near Elaine's couch. To an electric light socket, Craig attached wires. The doctor watched him in silent wonder.
Elaine's blood was up, but somehow, in spite of herself, she went astray, for the hounds had distanced the fleetest riders and she, in an attempt at a short cut over the country which she thought she knew so well, went a mile or so out of the way. She pulled up in a ravine and looked about. Intently she listened. There was no sign of the hunt.
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