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So much the better. It lay within her power, then, to repay him, if only in part, for what he had made her suffer. "I repeat, Miss Gloria," Gratton was saying, a stubborn look in his eyes, "that you promised to marry me. You have had a hard day, I realize; there has been much to unnerve you. I erred in haste, perhaps; I should have waited until you had a night's rest.
A day or two after these events Gratton came in to us at the Ramparts and casually informed us that the Coast idea was postponed: the battle was going to be fought north and south of Ypres only. The Coast landing was going to take place later if the Third Battle of Ypres should prove a success of which, of course, no patriot could entertain any doubts! Rawlinson was not ready.
Brodie chuckled. "I don't care whose before Gratton's the first time; but whose after Gratton's the last time, that's it! Who are you for, Bright-Eyes? Me or Steve?" "No!" she cried, her hands at her breast. "No! I am not like that! I was not Gratton's; I am ... I am Mark King's wife!" "So?" admitted Brodie good-humouredly. "Well, that cuts no ice; it's open and shut you'd gone back to Gratton.
Other voices; the other men had drawn aside, amazed, leaving Gratton a clear field with his unwilling bride. "Have you gone mad, Gloria?" King could hear the words now. "Think what you are saying " "I have thought. I hate you. Go away. Let me go." Gratton's pale eyes must be ablaze with wrath now; his tone told that. "There's no way out for you. You've got to marry me. "Take your hand off "
"Here's the grub he stole!" It was Benny's cracked, nervous voice, full of wrath. She could feel Gratton shiver as he crouched against her. Sudden disgust filled her. They knew that he was here; they would take him in a minute; his seeking further to hide was so futile.
"I beg pardon; sir, but I think Gratton has gone to bed. He had no orders." "Then wake him," said Eldon Parr, "instantly. And send for my secretary." With a glance which he perceived Alison comprehended, Hodder made his way out of the room. He had from Eldon Parr, as he passed him, neither question, acknowledgment, nor recognition.
Then, still bareheaded, he looked up. It was Gratton! Gratton alone; Gratton looking back over his shoulder more often than he quested far ahead; Gratton in a mad attempt to make haste where haste was impossible. Now his every gesture bespoke a frantic haste. He was escaping from something. Then, what? He had left the other men; he was running away from them.
"It is only since coming here that I have realized how things will look; what people will think and say, curse them. Our being out so long together; my buying clothing for you " "Our being registered as Mr. and Mrs. Gratton " His eyes burned, his lips clamped tight. "Forgive me, Gloria! It was the mad impulse of a moment.
His thoughts all of a sudden were restive, flying off to Swen Brodie, to Loony Honeycutt, to what he must get done without too much delay. Gratton startled him by speaking, bringing his thoughts back from across the ridges to the sunny verandah overlooking Lake Gloria. Gratton was nobody's fool, save his own, and both marked and resented King's attitude.
"I have been working with Brodie," shouted Gratton. "If I go on with him now, with him and the men with him, six or eight of them taking what he gives them either in money or in curses and orders if, I say, I chip in with him against you, what will the inevitable end be, I ask you? Look at the odds " "The inevitable end," said King sternly, "will be that they'll pick your bones and kick you out."
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