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Updated: May 17, 2025
Five very hungry, thirsty, and wearied men lay in the shadow above the Pool of Ness, and prayed heaven for luncheon. Lewis and George, Wratislaw and Arthur Mordaunt were there, and Doctor Gracey, who loved a day on the hills. The keepers sat farther up the slope smoking their master's tobacco sure sign of a well-spent morning.
I never really cared for any woman in the world except Gracey Storefield, but she was far away, and I didn't see much likelihood of my being able to live in that part of the world, much less to settle down and marry there.
A shopgirl perhaps, and he was, probably not a clerk in a shop he looked more like a mechanic but hardly a gentleman. Not, at any rate, what her mother or Jane would call a gentleman not the kind of gentleman that George was, or Charley Gracey, for instance.
His clean-shaven face was wet and shining with the drizzle, pools formed on the floor of the cart, and the mare's flanks were plastered with the weather. Suddenly he drew up sharp at the sight of a figure by the roadside. "Hullo, Doctor Gracey," he cried, "where on earth have you come from? Come in and I'll give you a lift." The figure advanced and scrambled into the vacant seat.
Gracey Storefield not daring to think of me or say my name, after seeing me carried off a prisoner before her eyes. Here was a load of misery and disgrace heaped up together, to be borne by the whole family, now and for the time to come by the innocent as well as the guilty. And for what?
I believe I ought to be jealous of that girl. 'All Starlight's fault, I said; 'but anyhow, it's through him we've had this meeting here. I was dead against coming all the time, and I never expected things to turn out so lucky as they have done. 'Will he be here to-night? Aileen says, very soft and timid like. 'I almost wished I'd stayed away, but Gracey here would come.
There was an invitation from the Hylan B. Gracey Camp of Confederate Veterans of Eddyburg, asking him to deliver the chief oration at the annual reunion, to be held at Mineral Springs on the twelfth day of the following month; an official notice from the clerk of the Court of Appeals concerning the affirmation of a judgment that had been handed down by Judge Priest at the preceding term of his own court; a bill for five pounds of a special brand of smoking tobacco; a notice of a lodge meeting altogether quite a sizable batch of mail.
Some things that are suffered in this world can't be paid for, I don't care how they fix it. More than once, too, there was a line or two on a scrap of paper slipped in Aileen's letters from Gracey Storefield. She wasn't half as good with the pen as Aileen, but a few words from the woman you love goes a long way, no matter what sort of a fist she writes.
The bedroom had been settled up too, and there was a good, comfortable bed ready for any tired man to turn into. Better than all, there was a letter, signed 'Your own Gracey, that made me think I might have some life left worth living yet.
Somehow I feel ready to chance everything for an hour's happiness like this. Gracey said nothing, but looked down, and Aileen kept turning towards the door as if she half hoped and was half afraid of seeing him come in. By and by we heard some one say, 'Here comes the Commissioner; all the camp will be here now, and there was a bit of a move to look at them as they came in.
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