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Updated: June 22, 2025
Have you not bewitched me?" his strong arms moving tenderly around the girl's little jacket, while he covered her lips with kisses. "Give the talisman to me, darling, that I may wear it until your love shall be as strong for me as is my own for Eyllen!" Then the girl, thinking him in earnest, handed it to her lover who hung it about his neck beneath his waistcoat next to his heart.
"Anywhere you say, Eyllen, only let it not be too far for my feet to travel," replied the man indulgently, as he watched her, well pleased with the grace of her movements. "When we are tired we will sit and rest in the sunshine. See! Here is buttermilk the priest's housekeeper has sent you. I will carry a bottleful to refresh you when thirsty." They then trudged off among the hills.
None could be reported; and the youngster was soon in a state of great sleepiness in bed, while the two women washed the supper dishes and made the small cabin once more tidy. That night Eyllen slept little. On her cot in the corner she pondered long and earnestly. Just what was the nature of the strange phenomenon with which she was so lately identified she had no idea.
At this point Eyllen's father began to speak of other things, and the irrepressible youngster subsided; while Eyllen and her aunt looked modestly down upon the plates before them. Two weeks passed. The ship which brought the sick man and his friend had departed, leaving them behind. None were sad at its going.
She may be coming from Vladivostock and bring news of my uncle!" and the lad dashed out of the cabin and down again upon the wharf. "Or, better yet, the ship may bring him!" suggested Eyllen, in a flutter, hastily rising and putting away her work. "I must see if my father has really come." "I trust it is so; then will my prayers not be in vain.
"When we played by the schoolyard," remarked her youngster cousin dryly, from between huge mouthfuls of fish and potato, "she was standing on the high hilltop and looking out to sea. I am certain I saw her wave something to the sailors, only there were no sailors there," and the urchin glanced roguishly across the table at Eyllen. "Ha, you rogue!
"But he cannot be on board your ship or he would have been out to greet us." "Your father's name?" asked the officer. "Fedor Michaelovitz," responded Eyllen. "He is on board, but he is ill. We will fetch him ashore presently," but even as he spoke two men passed through the door to the gangplank. They carried a litter between them upon which lay stretched a man. Eyllen rushed toward the litter.
"Eyllen has been long expecting you, Mr. Shismakoff. She often went to the hilltop to wave to you, and I suppose she also called you. Did you hear her across the water, and come in answer?" The young man smiled. "Be silent! you naughty boy!" commanded his mother, with as much force as she could master. Eyllen's color grew like the wild roses in the window.
The lunch basket, too, toppled over, with the contents, luckily being only sandwiches of bread and butter; and Eyllen, as excited now as her father, ran lightly down the path to the spring from which she had filled her drinking cup a few minutes earlier. "Here are the ledges, Father, here they are! Come and see for yourself!" pointing to the rocks she had already so thoroughly investigated.
It will be a wonder if some of them do not follow me. If they do, they will not find me," and she laughed again as she hastened on over the brow of the bluff. Eyllen was lithe of limb and supple. To mountain climbing she had been accustomed since a baby, and was well and hardy. She now stood for a moment to take a fresh survey of the bay.
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