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"See here, mavourneen!" Indignation thrilled in the Irishman's voice. "I'm not going to be done up with baby-ribbons and laid away in a cradle for safe-keeping while a fight is on; don't think it. Why didn't you call me?" "You needed rest!" There was indomitable determination in the handmaiden's tones, the eternal maternal shining defiant from her eyes. "You were tired and you hurt!
O'Keefe was silent; the Golden Girl shook her head. "Well would I like to," her face grew dreaming; "but the Silent Ones say no; they bid me let you go, Yolara " "The Silent Ones," the priestess laughed. "You, Lakla! You fear, perhaps, to let me tarry here too close!" Storm gathered again in the handmaiden's eyes; she forced it back.
Standing in the porch, and looking extremely pretty in its flickering light and shade, stood Poppy Jenkins, in the neatest of handmaiden's attire, and as the girls all came into the shade of the cool porch, Noel himself, looking somewhat pale, and with a curious agitation in his manner, came out to meet them. "This is my house," he said, "and Poppy is engaged as one of the servants.
"They say," the handmaiden's voice was surer, "they say that in their cradle near earth's heart they grew; grew untroubled by the turmoil and disorder which flayed the surface of this globe. And they say it was a place of light and that strength came to them from earth heart strength greater than you and those from which you sprang ever derived from sun.
Jane entered, with a slight toss of her head. "Here's your expressman, ef you're wantin' him NOW." Mrs. Rylands was too preoccupied to notice her handmaiden's significant emphasis, as she indicated a fresh-looking, bashful young fellow, whose confusion was evidently heightened by the unexpected egress of Mr. Hamlin, and the point-blank presence of the handsome Mrs. Rylands.
"Larry Farewell!" "My heart, Larry " It was the handmaiden's murmur. "My heart feels like a bird that is flying from a nest of sorrow."
Gasping, shaken, weak, I stood within the faceted oval chamber; arm still about the handmaiden's white shoulder; Larry's hand still clutching her girdle. The roaring, impalpable gale from the cosmos was retreating to the outposts of space was still; the intense, streaming, flooding radiance lessened died. "Now have you beheld," said Lakla, "and well you trod the road.
Nor did we stop until we came to the handmaiden's boudoir. There we seated ourselves. "Now," said Larry, "two things I want to know. First how many can Yolara muster against us; second, how many of these Akka have we to meet them?" Rador gave our equivalent for eighty thousand men as the force Yolara could muster without stripping her city.
Henrietta was closer to earth, for her features had been revealed; she was therefore the dearer, and the richer for him who loved her, being one of us, though an over-earthly one; and Carinthia gave her to Chillon, reserving for herself a handmaiden's place within the circle of their happiness. This done, she sat straight in the car.
For the dwarfs lay dead, and Larry, holding Lakla tightly, was staring even as I, and ranged at the head of the path were the Akka, whose booming advance in obedience to the handmaiden's call I had heard.
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