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The chief private secretary last year being made governor of a colony, John has now stepped into his shoes, and presently he will go into Parliament. He is a brilliant fellow and cares for no man following only his own star. I shall be very glad to see him again." Halcyone's face fell into a brown study and the Professor watching her mused to himself. "John Derringham will find her in the way.
I thought Jason was a straight enough sort of a fellow and that it was Medea who brought all the trouble Medea, the woman." Halcyone's grave eyes never left his face. She saw the whimsical twinkle in his but heeded it not. "He should not have had anything to do with Medea that is where he was wrong," she said, "but having given her his word, he should have kept it." "Even though she was a witch?"
Priscilla had let down Halcyone's white muslin frock and as the tucks were rather large, it was longer than she intended, so that the child might easily have been taken for a girl of fifteen, and her perfect feet were encased in a pair of old-fashioned bronze slippers with elastics crossed up the legs of her white silk stockings.
And in Halcyone's brave heart not a doubt ever entered she waited and believed and endured, in silent pain. After Arabella's unfortunate announcement, for two or three days John Derringham was too ill to know or care what occurred, and then other and further tormenting thoughts began to trouble his weary brain.
Here Halcyone's foot had struck against the marble upon her original voyage of discovery, and by the other objects she encountered she supposed someone long ago, being in flight, had gradually dropped things which were heavy and of least value. There was a breastplate as well, and an iron-bound box which she had never been able to move or open.
And he suddenly was conscious of something which his whole life had missed for he knew he did not know what real love meant, not even that which his mother might have given him, if she had lived. He did not speak for a moment; he gazed into Halcyone's face.
Then he folded Halcyone's pitiful little communication absently, and thought deeply. Two things were evident. Firstly, John Derringham had been disabled before the hour when he should have met his bride; and secondly, she was, when she wrote, unaware that he had had any accident at all. She must thus be very unhappy and full of horrible anxiety his dear little girl!
"Yes, he knows rather more than you do as yet," the Professor allowed. "Perhaps you will not like him; he can be quite disagreeable when he wishes and he may not like you." Halcyone's dark brows met. "If he is someone for whom you have a regard he must be of those who count. I shall be angry then, if he dislikes me is he coming soon?" "On Monday, by the four o'clock train."
"Get on with your courting then, lad!" said the Professor, pointing with his stick in Halcyone's direction, while his wise eyes smiled. "I suppose she will think you perfect in any case it is her incredible conviction!" And with this he shook his old pupil's hand again, and the two men went their separate ways; John Derringham forgetful of even his lame ankle as he rapidly approached his beloved.
Anderton, being well assured by the Misses La Sarthe that his stepdaughter was receiving a splendid education, was only too glad to leave her in peace, and Mrs. Anderton felt her duty achieved when at the beginning of each summer and winter she sent a supply of what she considered suitable clothes. It took Priscilla and Hester hours to alter them to Halcyone's slender shape. Mr.
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