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Helbeck just got into the old mill by the bridge in time, but they'd marked his face for him all the same." "Ah!" said Laura, staring into the fire. She had just remembered a dark scar on Mr. Helbeck's forehead, under the strong ripples of black hair. "Go on do!" "Oh! afterwards there was a lot of men bound over father among 'em. There was a priest with Mr.
And and he showed no sense of it." Her tone was so simple, so poignant, that Helbeck smiled only that he might not weep. Hurriedly coming to her he kissed her soft hair. "There were temptations of his youth," he said with difficulty, "from which the Faith rescued him. Now these same temptations have torn him from the faith. It has been all known to me from first to last. I see no hope.
Helbeck, in general a singularly absent and ineffective man of business, had thrown himself into the matter with an astonishing energy, had pressed his price, hurried his solicitors, and begged the patience of the nuns who were still sleeping in doorways and praying for new buildings till all should be complete. That afternoon he had ridden over to Whinthorpe in the hopes of signing the contract.
His differences with the modern world are purely speculative, having little or no bearing on practical life, and therefore the world is content to take Catholicism at its own valuation. How far this is from Helbeck one can easily divine, but Laura has brought them leagues from that Westmoreland home of impossible ideals and all it symbolises.
There, beating against the gravelly bank, in a soft helplessness, her bright hair tangled among the drift of branch and leaf brought down by the storm, Helbeck found her. He brought her home upon his breast. Those who had come to search with him followed at a distance. He carried her through the garden, and at the chapel entrance nurses and doctors met him.
Laura felt a fresh prick of irritation as he paused. Was she never to escape not even here, in the April sun, beside the river bank! For, of course, what all this meant was that the really virtuous and admirable woman does not roam the world in search of art and friendship; she makes herself happy at home with religion and rheumatic gout. But Helbeck resumed.
"I shall have something else to do before long," he said in a low voice, "than to consider my own happiness." She was framing another question, when there was a sound of footsteps on the gravel behind them. Augustina exclaimed, with the agitation of weakness, "Don't let any visitors come!" Helbeck looked a moment in astonishment, then his face cleared.
When she reappeared, in walking dress with Fricka at her heels Helbeck opened the heavy outer door for her. "May I have Bruno?" she said. Helbeck turned and whistled. "You are not afraid?" he said, smiling, and looking at Fricka. "Oh, dear no! I spent an hour this morning introducing them." At that moment Bruno came bounding up.
But for the moment the collapse of the afternoon had been arrested; Mrs. Fountain was in no urgent danger. "Now then," said the nurse cheerily, when Miss Fountain had been supplied with all necessaries for sleep, "let us look at that arm, please." Laura turned in surprise. "Mr. Helbeck tells me you wrenched your wrist on the drive. He thought you would perhaps allow me to treat it."
Had Mason simply arranged the whole "mistake," jumped into the same train with her, and confronted her at the junction? Helbeck moved blindly up and down the room, traversed by one of those storms of excitement to which the men of his stock were liable. The thought of those two figures leaving the Braeside station together at midnight roused in him a madness half jealousy, half pride.
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