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The old man did not answer for a moment or two. He looked his visitor through and through with his wise gray eyes an investigation which might have disconcerted some people, but Halcyone was unabashed. "I know what you are doing," she said.
And the two younger children, Mabel of five and Ethel of four, shouted riotously with glee and snatched the coins from one another and greedily quarreled over those which Halcyone caught with her superior skill and handed to them.
"Well, now that this has begun to work, we must leave things to Fate." But he did not guess how passion on the one side and complete love and trust upon the other were precipitously forcing Fate's hand. The possibility of John Derringham's sending a message to Halcyone was very slender.
And while he was there with her, clasping her slender willowy form to his heart, John Derringham felt exalted. The importance of his career dwindled, the imperative necessity of possessing Halcyone for his very own augmented, until at last he whispered in her ear as her little head lay there upon his breast: "Darling child, you must marry me at once immediately next week.
"What fault of mine, dearest husband, has turned your affection from me? Where is that love of me that used to be uppermost in your thoughts? Have you learned to feel easy in the absence of Halcyone? Would you rather have me away?"
There was one from Cheiron, which he insisted upon opening a brief dry line of commiseration for his accident, with no mention of Halcyone in it. The complete ignoring of his letter to announce their marriage cut him deeply. He realized Mr. Carlyon guessed that the accident had happened before that event could take place, and his silence about it showed what he thought.
I do not think I am glad are you?" "Yes, I am glad. It is someone for whom I have a great regard," and Mr. Carlyon knocked the ashes from his long pipe. "It is a young man who used to be at Oxford and to whom also I taught Greek." "Then he will know a great deal more than I do, being older," returned Halcyone, not at all mollified by this information.
"Come!" whispered Halcyone, and walked to the high window-sill of the middle section, and then put down her burden upon the old faded velvet seat. "See, I will take off her veil gradually," she said, "and you must tell me of what she makes you think." John Derringham was growing interested by now, but had no idea in the world of the marvel he was going to see.
"Queen Mab!" she said at last, as she sat down in the middle of the sunlight, "I have found an old gentleman and he is Cheiron, and if one could see it in the right light, he may have a horse's body, and he is going to teach me just what Jason learnt and then I shall tell it to you." The rays shifted again to a path beyond, and Halcyone bounded up and went on her way.
He prays that the waves may bear his body to her sight, and that it may receive burial at her hands. At length the waters overwhelm him, and he sinks. The Day-star looked dim that night. Since it could not leave the heavens, it shrouded its face with clouds. In the meanwhile Halcyone, ignorant of all these horrors, counted the days till her husband's promised return.
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