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And the maid fled the kitchen, which had become practically dangerous, to attend on Innes' wants in the front parlour. TANTAENE IRAE? Has the reader perceived the reason? Since Frank's coming there were no more hours of gossip over the supper tray! All his blandishments were in vain; he had started handicapped on the race for Mrs. Elliott's favour.
Soon afterward inquiries by the Colonel brought out definite information as to the exact location of Frank's camp. A railway teamster, also, it appeared, was starting in that direction after ties and offered to transport a messenger as far as he was going, directing him, then, so that he could not lose his way. Old Neb, the darky, thereupon, was started on the search.
Frank's earnings were therefore smaller than they had been at first, but they still paid his expenses, and added a few pounds each trip to his account at the bank. He took shares in many of the companies formed for bringing down water from the lakes, and these were soon found to be an exceedingly valuable property, paying in many cases a return each month equal to the capital.
He sallied out as he spoke, and closed the door after him in that quiet, thoughtful way for which he was ever remarkable. The season was midsummer, and the morning wanted at least an hour of sunrise. Owen ascended a little knoll, above Frank's house, on which he stood and surveyed the surrounding country with a pleasing but melancholy interest.
I hope Frank's witness is not fat," said Jack, putting himself up against the wall, and lifting languidly his glass to his eye which byplay was somewhat startling, but totally incomprehensible, to the amateur judges, who looked upon him with angry eyes.
"Well, for instance, suppose they sent her away into seclusion, with Frank's consent, another serious question, and she should take the notion to fly her retirement, and appear inopportunely at some social function clothed as she is now! I fancy her blanket would be a wet one in such a case if you will pardon the little joke." Lambert sighed.
Then they came up to the scratch, and the word was given that started the contest. Bascomb started in at once with a series of false motions intended to confuse Merriwell, but they simply brought a faint smile to Frank's face, and he remained as placid as ever until Just as Bascomb had decided to rush, Merriwell rushed. There was a flashing of their gloves.
She had been out but for half-an-hour, after not speaking all the morning; and having seen Cutler at the billiard-room window, and suspecting we might take advantage of her absence, she had suddenly returned home again, and had flung herself, weeping, into her Frank's arms, and said she could not bear to leave him in anger.
But he did not see her, his eyes lighting instead upon the Princess, who was on her way to join her husband. The blood rose to Frank's cheeks as he saw that her Royal Highness was looking at him intently, and his confusion increased as she smiled pleasantly at him in passing.
"It was Francis Ravenel." The sound of the name itself brought no shock to Katrine. She seemed to have heard it before it was spoken, but she made no sign. She knew it was Frank's father of whom Madame de Nemours spoke, and the tales of him in North Carolina had more than prepared her for wild doings in his student days.
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