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Shiela constantly tormented him about these functions for his benefit, suggesting that he attire himself in a sloppy velvet jacket and let his hair grow and his necktie flow. She pretended to prepare placards advertising Hamil's popular parks for poor people at cut rates, including wooden horses and a barrel-organ.
He did not hear it, but Shiela, sleepless in her room above, laid down Hamil's book; then, thinking it might be the outer door left carelessly unlocked, descended the stairs with lighted candle. Passing the library and hearing voices she halted, astonished to see her husband there alone; and as she stood, perplexed and disturbed, he spoke as though answering a question.
Then Hamil's luggage arrived, and he went away to inspect his quarters, prepare for luncheon, and exchange his attire for forest dress. For he meant to lose no time in the waste corners of the earth when Gotham town might any day suddenly bloom like Eden with the one young blossom that he loved.
But what completed his exasperation was the indifference of the physicians attending Hamil who did not seem to appreciate the gravity of an impaired digestive system, or comprehend that a man who couldn't enjoy eating might as well be in Hamil's condition; and Portlaw angrily swallowed the calomel so indifferently shoved toward him and hunted up Wayward, to whom he aired his deeply injured feelings.
But he saw by the scarcely perceptible change in Hamil's face that there were to be no such relations between them, informal or otherwise; and he went on quietly, closing his own suggestion: "Or, if you like, we'll get Portlaw some morning after his breakfast, and end the whole matter by laying down the law to him." "That would be perfectly agreeable to me," said Hamil.
A few moments later the Indian, bending low, came creeping back without a sound, and straightened up in the fathomless shadow of the oak, motioning Shiela and Hamil to rise. "Choo-lee," he motioned with his lips; "Ko-la-pa-kin!" Lips close to Hamil's ear she whispered: "He says that there are seven in that pine. Can you see them?"
The entire bally business has gone up! That pup of a Louis! Oh, there's no use! Look here, Hamil! I tell you I can't believe it, I can't, and I won't Look what that fool card says!" And Hamil's stunned gaze fell on the engraved card: "Mr. and Mrs. Neville Cardross have the honour of announcing the marriage of their daughter Shiela to Mr. Louis Malcourt." The date and place followed.
Cardross is in the orange grove, I see." And, smiling, passed the guilty ones with a humorously threatening shake of his head. A black boy, grinning, opened the gate; the quick-stepping figure in white flannels glanced around at the click of the latch. "Hamil! Good work! I am glad to see you!" his firm, sun-burnt hands closing over Hamil's "glad all through!" "Not as glad as I am, Mr. Cardross "
"A-po-kes-chay," he whispered; and Shiela translated close to Hamil's ear: "He says that we must all sit down here " A sudden crackle in the darkness stilled her voice. "Im-po-kit-chkaw?" she asked. "Did you hear that? No-ka-tee; what is it?" "Deer walk," nodded the Seminole; "sun gone down; moon come. Bimeby roost um turkey. Li-kus-chay! No sound."
He had not seen Hamil during his illness or his convalescence had made no attempt to, evading lightly the casual suggestions of Portlaw that he and his young wife pay Hamil a visit; nor did he appear to take anything more than a politely perfunctory interest in the sick man's progress; yet Constance Palliser had often seen him pacing the lawn under Hamil's window long after midnight during those desperate hours when the life-flame scarcely flickered those ominous moments when so many souls go out to meet the impending dawn.
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