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I'll have a secret some time and keep it from you!" "Impossible!" said Merry. "No woman ever kept a secret." "Especially from her husband," put in Hodge. "Oh, you'll see you'll see!" threatened Inza. But the two laughing young men disappeared round the corner. "Now, I'd just give anything in the world to know what they're up to," said Inza. "Aren't you dying to know, Elsie?"
Now, my father never revealed the secret of this ring to my mother, if the ring has a secret; but I am sure that mother believed there was something mysterious about it, for, when she was dying, she gave it to me, telling me never to part with it. Of course I will not sell it." "Of course not," nodded Inza; "but the horrid old thing may bring you trouble, instead of good."
If so, we must turn the joke." Bart and Elsie came up. Frank left Inza with them as he returned with the empty glass. Leaving the glass, he set out to find the wolf. As he was passing one of the wide windows he saw two wolves standing outside. Immediately he stepped through the window and joined them. "Howdy, pards," he said, with an assumption of the cowboy manner.
Somehow an atmosphere of unrest and uncertainty, a sensation of expectation in the face of some unforeseen calamity, seemed to hover over Merry Home. It was nearly mid-afternoon, and Inza was on the veranda, with Elsie near, when Maggie appeared, looking puzzled and frightened. "Shure, ma'am," she said, "Oi wish ye'd come up and take a peep at the choild."
When this dance was over Merry left Inza, departing to find and bring her a glass of water. Barely was he gone when she was surprised to hear a harsh voice at her elbow saying: "I'll not believe your ghostly garments hide nothing save the hideous skeleton I saw a few moments ago. I must confess you gave me a shock." One of the wolves had paused close at hand.
I am all alone in ze world, monsieur. I have ze hard time to geet ze living once. It gif me ze great work." "Well, don't worry about that any more, my girl. We need you right here at Merry Home." Inza was calling to him, and Frank hastened up the steps. "I didn't expect you'd be able to come so soon, Frank," said his wife, as he drew his chair close to hers.
"You called up the past, Elsie," he said, in a low tone. "I can't forget that once I thought Frank loved you and you loved him. You've confessed a feeling of jealousy toward Inza." "Oh, no, no, no!" she said quickly. "You didn't understand me, Bart truly you didn't! It was not the sort of jealousy you mean. I'm not jealous of her because she is Frank's wife never! never!" He seemed puzzled.
"I'll know better about that after consulting with Watson Scott. If possible to linger, I'll be in no hurry to go." They swept past a solitary man who stood watching the dancers. His mask was the head of a wolf. Through the twin holes of the mask his eyes gleamed strangely as they followed Merry and Inza. Another wolf approached and touched the first on the shoulder. "Have you found him yet?"
Almost on hands and knees they crept out into the open air amid a thick screen of brush and shrubbery that concealed the mouth of the cave. "Thank Heaven!" murmured Inza, on the verge of collapsing. "Where is that Indian?" cried Frank. "I cannot leave him alone to face those men." "No leave him," said a voice, as Red Ben came leaping out from the cave. "Him here.
"Why, think of it, Inza, I'm a father and you are the dearest, sweetest, handsomest, noblest little mother in all the world!" The nurse ventured to speak. "Madame is so well! Madame is so strong! It is wonderful! It is grand!" "You've been very good, Lizette," said Inza. "We'll not forget it."
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