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"You notice what I say, Amabel?" "Yes; that isn't it. He will guess." "You are morbid, my poor child. But do you notice nothing when I say that only we three know?" Amabel looked up. Lady Elliston met her eyes. "I came today to tell you, Amabel. I felt sure you did not know. There is no reason at all, now, why you should dread coming out into the world with Augustine. You need fear no meetings.
Each envelope was of a pale pink tint, with a crest and monogram in white relief; one was addressed to the Misses Asplin, another to Oswald Elliston, and a third to Miss Mariquita Saville. "Invitations!" cried Peggy, with a caper of delight. "Invitations! How scrumptious!"
The man leaned toward her and looked straight into her eyes. "Oh, Miss Elliston can't you see I am thinking of your welfare of your safety; I have known you but a short time, as acquaintance is reckoned, but already you have become more to me than " Chloe interrupted him with a gesture. "Don't please I " Lapierre ignored the protest, and, seizing her hand in both his own, spoke rapidly.
All the unaccomplish'd works of Authors' hands, Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mix'd, Damn'd upon earth, fleet thither Play, Opera, Farce, with all their trumpery In Green Rooms, impervious to mortal eye, the muse beholds thee wielding posthumous empire. Magnificent were thy capriccios on this globe of earth, ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON! for as yet we know not thy new name in heaven.
But so, also, had he trusted the boasting, flaunting Vermilion. "All right; but keep your eye on him," he said, smiling sardonically, "and you may learn a lesson. Now you listen to me. You are to stay here. Miss Elliston wants you for her chief trader. Make out your list of supplies fill that storehouse up with stuff. She wants you to undersell the H.B.C. and you do it. Get the trade in here see?
There was a solemn expression pervading the face of Dyke Darrel. He had experienced many strange things during his detective life, but this latest phase puzzled him the most. He could swear that he saw the face of Elliston at the window of the house in the gulch on the previous night, yet the assertion from his friend that he was fifty miles away at the time seemed honest enough.
And Lapierre realized with a chill in his heart that he was "the man"! His one chance lay in a timely marriage with Chloe Elliston, and a quick dash for the States. If the dash succeeded, he had nothing to fear. Even if it failed, and he fell into the hands of the Mounted with the Elliston millions behind him, he felt he could snap his fingers in the face of the law.
He said, in answer to her questioning, that he had quite liked Lady Elliston; yes, they had had a nice talk; she seemed very friendly; he should go and see her when he next went up to London. Amabel felt the crispness in his voice but, centered as she was in her own self-mastery, she could not guess at the degree of his.
"Hardly an accident, I think, Miss Elliston, and, in any event, of small consequence." He shrugged a dismissal of the subject, and his voice assumed a light gaiety of tone. "May we not become better acquainted, we two, who meet in this far place, where travellers are few and worth the knowing?"
They are patient men these water freighters of the far North. For more than two centuries and a quarter they have sweated the wilderness freight across these same portages. And they are sober men when civilization is behind them far behind. Close beside Chloe Elliston, upon the same piece, Harriet Penny, of vague age, and vaguer purpose, also watched the loading of the scows.
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