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Anyone save a doctor would know you would sooner grow strong again there than here." As she talked, partly as a relief from nervousness and to hide her consternation over Kara's changed appearance, Tory was moving about the room arranging her gifts. In a vase filled with water from a pitcher standing on a table she placed a bouquet of faded wild flowers.
The mystery surrounding poor Kara has fascinated you. The fact that she knew nothing of her parents has made you feel that you could be more to her than had she enjoyed the family affection other girls receive. I believe in your heart of hearts you have planned some day to be Kara's fairy godmother and make up to her for what she has failed to receive." "Well, if I have, is it so wicked of me?"
Tory demanded. Memory Frean smiled. "I am afraid so, Tory dear, although many wise persons may not agree with me. I don't think it often is allowed us to play special Providence to other people. Since Kara's accident more than ever have you been trying to accomplish this for her. You have been wearing yourself out and Kara feels this and cannot enjoy it.
Tory appreciated that Dorothy was jesting, nevertheless, she bit her lips and frowned. Kara's hand reached around and took hold of hers. "You'll come along with us, won't you, Tory? I know I am selfish, but I do hate being separated from you. If there is time before Mrs. Phillips arrives why not attempt another sketch of Lucy?
In an inside pocket, as near to my body as I could put them, I had the two candles. How I should use them both I had already decided. The valet ushered me into Kara's room and once more I stood in the presence of the man who had killed my girl and blotted out all that was beautiful in life for me." There was a breathless silence when he paused.
He evidently had orders not to touch me, for he was in a great panic of mind, as he had reason to be, because on Kara's return he discovered the state of my face, started an enquiry and had Salvolio taken to the courtyard in the true eastern style and bastinadoed until his feet were pulp. "You may be sure the man hated me with a malignity which almost rivalled his employer's.
Kara in England was when we were staying at Babbacombe on a summer holiday which was really a prolongation of our honeymoon. Mr. Kara came to stay at the same hotel. I think Mr. Vassalaro must have been there before; at any rate they knew one another and after Kara's introduction to my husband the rest was easy. "Can I do anything for John!" she asked piteously. T. X. shook his head.
"My musical composition has the advantage of not being long and is merely an attempt to express our sorrow over Kara's departure, our faith in her good courage and our splendid hope for her return. Yes, and perhaps a little of my envy that she goes to the city of my dreams. Perhaps after all I shall meet her there."
Jeremy Hammond and the little girl, Lucy Martin, whom they had adopted some months ago. In the years at the old Gray House on the hill in Westhaven Lucy had been Kara's special charge. If Tory had been fascinated by the little girl's extraordinary beauty in the past, she was more startled to-night. The room was lighted only by candles and a single large lamp under a yellow shade.
There would be less difficulty in finally getting away. Dr. McClain was to accompany Kara to New York in order to see the New York physicians. Mr. Jeremy Hammond had offered to motor them down, as he owned a handsome car and Kara would be spared having to be lifted in and out of the train. Kara's farewell Scout meeting was by her own request a quiet one.
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