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Updated: May 29, 2025
The girl sprang to the ground, gun poised; Hamil followed her, and they walked across the sandy open where scarcely a tuft of dead grass bristled.
Cardross and Jessie Carrick driving to a luncheon; later, Gray passed in his motor with his father. "I have an idea that you and I are to lunch alone," said Hamil as they reached the house; and so it turned out, for Malcourt was going off with Portlaw somewhere and Cecile was dressing for Virginia's luncheon.
"But it's a bird!" insisted Hamil, "a big gray, long-legged, five-foot bird with a scarlet head!" "Of course," said the girl serenely; "it's a crane. His name is Alonzo; he's four feet high; and he's horridly savage.
Then through the thickening twilight they followed the Seminole in file, Hamil bringing up the rear. Little Tiger had left turban, plume, and leggings in camp; the scalp-lock bobbed on his head, bronzed feet and legs were bare; and, noiseless as a cypress shadow in the moonlight, he seemed part of it all, harmonious as a wild thing in its protective tints.
And I'm afraid Mrs. Van Dieman knows what she's talking about because she founded and still supports the asylum." Hamil looked gravely across at his aunt. "The poor little girl," he said slowly. "Lord, but that's tough! and tougher still to have Mrs. Van Dieman taking the trouble to spread the news. Can't you shut her up?" "It is tough, Garret. I suppose they all are dreadfully sensitive about it.
You don't care. I do. My curiosity is piqued. She becomes to me an abstract question which scientific experiment alone can elucidate " Hamil, leaning on the footboard of the bed, laughed and straightened up. "All right, Malcourt, if you think it worth while " "What pursuit, if you please, is worthier than logical and scientific investigations?"
Hamil passed on to the left through crowded gardens, pressing his way slowly where all around him lantern-lit faces appeared from the dusk and vanished again into it; where the rustle of summer gowns sweeping the shaven lawns of Bermuda grass sounded like a breeze in the leaves.
On the still surface of the lake, tinted with palest rose and primrose, the wild ducks floated, darkly silhouetted against the water or, hoping for crumbs, paddled shoreward, inquiringly peering up at the riders with little eyes of brightest gold. "Blue-bills," said Cardross to Hamil; "nobody shoots them on the lake; they're as tame as barnyard waterfowl.
"Gad, Hamil!" he said with considerable feeling, "I hate to see a noble tree go down; it's like murder to me. But it's the only thing to do, isn't it? The French understand the value of magnificent distances. What a glorious vista that will make, four miles straight away walled in by deathless green, and the blue lagoon sparkling at the end of the perspective! I love it, I tell you. I love it!"
And Hamil realised there had been two ways of interpreting Virginia's question, and he reddened, suddenly appalled at his own knowledge and at his hasty and gross conclusions. If Shiela noticed the quick changes in his face she did not appear to, nor the curious glance that Virginia cast at him.
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