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Updated: June 11, 2025
"What is your given name?" she asked, still dimpling at me, and her eyes now but two blue wells of light. "Euan," I said, foolish as a flattered schoolboy, and as awkward. "Euan," she said, still smiling at me, "I think that I could be your friend if you do truly wish it. What is it you desire of me? Ask me once more, and make it very clear and plain." "Only your confidence; that is all I ask."
'And if you could find out anything before the case comes up, said Euan, 'you might be the means of saving the lad and his mother too; for she will be heart-broken if her son is not cleared, and that quickly. 'We'll do all we can, said Marjorie. 'Yes, said Allan slowly and deliberately; 'I vote we all make up our minds not to rest until we find out who did it and get Neil cleared.
Then for the first time he saw how pale she looked. "My dear," he said, "I know what an awful shock you've had...." "You've heard about it?" "I saw it in the Sunday papers. I was going to write to you." "Euan," the girl began in a nervous, hasty way, "I have to go to Holland at once. There is not a moment to lose. I want you to help me get my passport viseed."
I ran back along the trail, meeting the boat-guard, batt-men, and the sick horses all along the way to Tioga, where they took me over on a raft of logs.... I paid them three hard shillings. Then Colonel Shreve heard of what I had been about, and sent a soldier after me, but I avoided the fort, Euan, and went boldly up through the deserted camps until I came to where the army had crossed.
Friendships have their deeps and shallows, but are deathless only while they endure. Love hath no shallows, Euan, and endures often when friendship dies.... I speak, having no knowledge. But I believe it.
"And if you were not the honest-meaning marplot that you are, Mr. Boyd should teach you a lesson!" "I'll teach him one now," said I, springing to my feet and gone quite blind with rage so that I was obliged to stand still a moment before I could discover Boyd where he stood by the open door, trying to converse with Mrs. Lansing, but watching us both with unfeigned amazement. "Euan!"
"I made no mockery! I laughed. And you shall know that one day, please God, I shall laugh at you, plague you, torment you, and " She looked at me smilingly, hesitating; then in a low voice: "All my caprices you shall endure as in duty bound.... Because your reward shall be the adoration of one who is at heart your slave already.... And your desires will ever be her own are hers already, Euan.... Have I made amends?"
But I know I should do it, somehow." "I know it, too," said I, looking at my ring she wore. She blushed hotly: "It is well that you do, Euan. Death is the dire penalty if my prisoner escapes!" She hesitated, bit her lip, then added faintly: "Death for me, I mean."
I marry in the face of the sad and miserable examples all my friends afford me! Not I, Euan, unless " She smiled at me with pretty malice. " you enter the lists. Do you then enter?"
'No, says she, 'there are other men like Euan Loskiel in the world. 'Exceptions prove the case, says he, laughing; and there was a great sob in her voice as she answered that such men as he were born to damn women.
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