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His accents expressed surprise, but not of an immoderate nature. He, no doubt, received many arbitrary and unexpected orders when his excellency went a-cruising. "Repeat the order." Heatherbloom's whisper seemed fairly to sting the nobleman's disengaged ear. The latter did repeat savagely jerkily, but the humming wires tempered the tones.
"Come along!" The officer's English was labored and guttural. Mr. Heatherbloom's eyes swung swiftly from the near-by door through which he had momentarily expected the woman to emerge. Involuntarily he would have stepped after the vanishing figure of the prince what to do, he knew not, when "Non, non," said the officer, intervening. "Hees excellenz dislikes to be importuned."
The driver had begun to speed; as if to make up for lost time, he was forcing the engine to its limit. The machine, of light construction, shook violently, negotiated the steep places with jumps and slid down on the other side with breakneck velocity. The dust thickened about Mr. Heatherbloom's head so that he could scarcely see. His arms ached and every bump nearly tore him loose.
"There has been a big reward offered, of course, and he'll appear in due time to claim it." "He'll not," began Betty Dalrymple indignantly, and stopped. She had been obliged to explain in some way Mr. Heatherbloom's presence, and the subterfuge he had himself employed toward her on the Nevski had been the only one that occurred to her.
She had got on at the other end of the car at the last station, and after waiting a few moments for him to see her, had moved toward him, or a seat at his side just then vacated by some one preparing to leave. Mr. Heatherbloom's face cleared; he banished the belligerent expression. "You look edible enough!" he said with forced jocularity.
Heatherbloom's eyes while rage that she should thus be driven harder filled his breast. Fool! that he had not killed the prince when opportunity had offered that night in the cabin. His clemency might probably would cost her dear. "We've got to go on, and faster," said the young man. His hands were clenched; his arms were stiff at his side. "Can you do it?" he asked Betty Dalrymple.
The speaker had a smooth face and dark soulful eyes. His manner was both furtive and constrained. He looked around as if uncomfortable at finding himself in that place. "Well, I guess you can have it. I can't get away," muttered the manacled man. "Miss Dalrymple sent me." Mr. Heatherbloom's interest was manifest; he strove to suppress outward signs of it. "What what for?"
"Should I be so forgiving after last night?" she murmured. "It would be inconsistent, wouldn't it? or angelic? And I am no angel." The girl's lips started to form a question but she did not speak. Afar, Mr. Heatherbloom's figure could be seen, almost at the vanishing point. He was toiling up an incline. Then the green foliage swallowed him. Sonia Turgeinov smiled at vacancy.
Then she had lolled back and listened to the first reading. She would have lolled back now for the air was soporific but, instead, she started suddenly. The old wound on Mr. Heatherbloom's head, heretofore concealed by the cap Francois had procured for him, had reopened as he exerted himself; he raised his hand quickly and seemed a little at a loss. She stepped to him at once.
But later, that night, there was no joy on Mr. Heatherbloom's face. In his room in the old negro woman's house, he indited a letter. It was brought to Betty Dalrymple the next morning as the early sunshine entered her chamber overlooking the governor's park. "Darling: Forgive me. I am sailing at dawn on the old tub, for South America " Here the note fell from the girl's hand.
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