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She lifted her eyes to the leering, sinister face that protruded from the Devil's Hood. "As, presumably, from his choice of a profession, he, too, had no love for women, you ought to enjoy telling his story," she added maliciously. Garth's eyes twinkled. "As a matter of fact, it was love o' women that was Anselmo's undoing," he said.
The next word failed on his lips; he raised his hand in the dead silence. With eyes that opened wide in horror, he raised his hand and pointed over Miss Garth's shoulder. She turned a little, and looked back. Face to face with her, on the threshold of the study door, stood the mistress of the house. She held her old music-book clutched fast mechanically in both hands.
"Lord, give me rest," he murmured again, and the tongue that uttered the prayer spoke no more. Rotha took his hand. His pulse sank slower, slower, slower. His end was like the going out of a lamp down, down, down then a fitful flicker and then Death, the merciful mediator; Death, the Just Judge; Death, the righter of the wronged; Death was here here! Mrs. Garth's grief was uncontrollable.
"Here we are!" Garth's voice recalled her abruptly from her musings to find that the Betsy Anne was swaying gently alongside a little wooden landing-stage. "But how civilized!" she exclaimed. "One does not expect to find a jetty on a desert-island." Trent laughed grimly. "Devil's Hood is far from being a desert island in the summer, when the tourists come this way. They swarm over it."
The younger man brushed the dirt away gently as the other opened his eyes to regard Shann with his old impersonal stare. "You're alive," Thorvald stated bleakly. "Garth's dead. You ought to be dead too." Shann drew back, rubbed sand from his hands, his concern dampened by the other's patent hostility. Only that angry accusation vanished in a blink of those gray eyes.
Congreve, and had the most interesting stories to tell of the northern lands he had visited. Then his books of travel and legend, how bewitching they were! While Harry Mitchell revelled in Garth's specimens, Yaspard pored over his books, and could scarcely be torn from them. "Oh, Harry," he said, "wouldn't you like his chance of going away and discovering all sorts of places and things?"
"Viens, mon cher," she said gently; and he led her away. Conscious of Garth's eyes on her face, she could not trust herself to look again at Lenox, who had neither moved nor spoken since he set her on dry ground. But that one moment in his arms had solved her problem in a fashion that she dreamed not of: a fashion that still seemed past belief.
When he's sober and that's not often in these days he's as sour as Mother Garth's plums, and when he's tipsy his head's as soft as poddish." "It was a sad day for Robbie when his old mother died," said Rotha. "And that was in one of his bouts" said Liza; "but I thought it had sobered him forever. He loved the old soul, did Robbie, though he didn't always do well by her.
But this was a moment of agony nevertheless. Ralph was following the funeral of the mightiest passion of his soul. He got up and opened the door. "Good night, and God bless you!" he said huskily. "One moment, Ralph. Did you see two men, strangers, on the road to-night? Ah, I remember, you came in at the back." "Two friends of Joe Garth's," said Ralph, closing the door behind him.
Dalmain, with a clever brain behind them, and a kind, sympathetic, womanly heart directing and controlling that brain. Nurse Gray arrived this morning, Mr. Dalmain." No response from the bed. But Garth's hand groped for the wall; touched it, then dropped listlessly back. Jane could not realise that SHE was "Nurse Gray." She only longed that her poor boy need not be bothered with the woman!
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