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A telegram has just been sent to the Bishop to that effect, and while we all suffer from this disappointment, I am sure there is no one here who will not see the propriety of her decision." As he finished, Gilbertine appeared behind him.
That is what I am here to ask, first of myself, then of you. For the two women pressing behind me were " "Who?" I sharply demanded, partaking in some indefinable way of his excitement and alarm. "Gilbertine Murray and Dorothy Camerden!" his prospective bride and the woman I loved and whom he knew I loved, though I had kept my secret quite successfully from every one else!
What was my astonishment, in passing the little boudoir on the second floor, to find its door ajar and the place empty. Either the interview between Sinclair and Gilbertine had been very much curtailed, or it had not yet taken place.
A girl wretched enough to contemplate suicide would be especially careful to conceal both her misery and its cause. Neither can we order a search to be made for an object so small that it can be concealed about the person." "Yet this jewel must be recovered. Listen, Sinclair. I will have a talk with Dorothy, you with Gilbertine. A kind talk, mind you! one that will soothe, not frighten.
I wonder upon which of her two unfortunate nieces she will expend her ill-temper to-night." "Oh, there's no question about that," remarked the lady who stood near him. "Ever since she has had a reasonable prospect of working Gilbertine off her hands, she has devoted herself quite exclusively to her remaining burden.
"The danger is from now on," he cried, as soon as I had closed the door behind me. "I shall not undress to-night." "Nor I." "Happily we both have rooms by ourselves in this great house. I shall put out my light, and then open my door as far as need be. Not a move in the house will escape me." "I will do the same." "Gilbertine God be thanked! is not alone in her room.
It was Gilbertine and not Dorothy who stood before me. Never had a suspicion crossed my mind of any such explanation of our secret troubles. I had seen as much of one cousin as the other in my visits to Mrs.
Go into the conservatory and wait." She gave me a grateful pressure of the hand, while I bounded upstairs, determined that nothing should stop me from finding Gilbertine, and giving her the letter with which Sinclair had entrusted me. But this was more easily planned than accomplished.
According to Sinclair's description, the interview proceeded thus: As soon as the door had closed upon them, and before either of the girls had a chance to speak, he remarked to Gilbertine: "I have brought you here because I wish to express to you, in the presence of your cousin, my sympathy for the bereavement which in an instant has robbed you both of a lifelong guardian.
For, preposterous as his idea was, reason told me that he had some grounds for his doubt. Dorothy, unlike Gilbertine Murray, was not to be read at a glance, and her trouble for she certainly had a trouble was not one she chose to share with any one, even with me.
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