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Ellmother reminded the merry young lady that the proposed arrangement between them had not been concluded yet. "Am I to understand, miss, that you will keep a place open for me in your service?" "You are to understand," Francine replied sharply, "that I must have Miss Ladd's approval before I can engage you. Suppose you come to Brighton? I will pay your fare, of course."
From this she advanced to the narrative of what had taken place at Netherwoods to the atrocious attempt to frighten her by means of the image of wax to the discovery made by Francine in the garden at night and to the circumstances under which that discovery had been communicated to Emily. Miss Ladd's face reddened with indignation. "Are you sure of all that you have said?" she asked.
White-faced, with great black eyes flashing, the Spanish girl spoke the word that bound her and her companions in the desert. The subject was never mentioned again. Gale thought that he read a sinister purpose in Ladd's mind. To his astonishment, Lash came to him with the same fancy. After that they made certain there never was a gun within reach of Ladd's clutching, clawlike hands.
Ladd began to work the lever of the Winchester and to shoot. At every shot the heavy firearm sprang up, and the recoil made Ladd's shoulder give back. Gale saw the bullets strike the lava behind, beside, before the fleeing Mexican, sending up dull puffs of dust. On the sixth shot he plunged down out of sight, either hit or frightened into seeking cover.
On this occasion, the feast was especially plentiful and expensive, in commemoration not only of the arrival of the Midsummer holidays, but of the coming freedom of Miss Ladd's two leading young ladies. With widely different destinies before them, Emily and Cecilia had completed their school life, and were now to go out into the world.
"Was your correspondent lately a pupil at Miss Ladd's school?" she inquired. "My correspondent has just left Miss Ladd," the doctor answered. "Are you a friend of hers?" "I am acquainted with her." "You would be doing the poor child a kindness, if you would go and see her. She has no friends in London." "Pardon me she has an aunt." "Her aunt died a week since." "Are there no other relations?"
These things in all their magnificence had not been unnoticed by him before; only now they spoke a different meaning. A voice that he had never heard called him to see, to feel the vast hard externals of heaven and earth, all that represented the open, the free, silence and solitude and space. Once more his thoughts, like his steps, were halted by Ladd's actions.
Ellmother, with the bewildered air of a lady who doubted the evidence of her own eyes. The next moment, her sense of humor overpowered her. She burst out laughing. "Close the door, Mr. Morris," she said, "and be so good as to tell me what this means. Have you been giving a lesson in drawing by starlight?" Mrs. Ellmother moved, so that the light of the lamp in Miss Ladd's hand fell on her face.
I shall be greatly obliged if you can obtain for me, and send to this place, a supply of artists' modeling wax sufficient for the product ion of a small image." A week later, Alban Morris happened to be in Miss Ladd's study, with a report to make on the subject of his drawing-class. Mrs. Ellmother interrupted them for a moment.
Presently Lash went to the rear and Ladd started ahead. The progress now, however, was considerably slower, not owing to a road for that became better but probably owing to caution exercised by the cowboy guide. At the end of a half hour this marked deliberation changed, and the horses followed Ladd's at a gait that put Gale to his best walking-paces.
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