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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Upon my word!" exclaimed Miss Laniston, "your way of taking it is indeed interesting. Not a word of thanks, not a sign of recognition" I had nearly reached the door, but now rushed back and seized her by the hand. "Excuse me," I said, "but you can see for yourself" and with one violent shake I dropped her hand, and hurried away.
The world seemed cold and dark, and the coldest and darkest thing in it was the figure of Mother Anastasia, as she rose to leave me. When I reached New York, I bethought myself of my promise to Miss Laniston. It tortured my soul to think of what had happened; I knew it would torture it still more to talk of these things.
The loose end had been gathered up. It might have been supposed that my little experience in gathering up loose ends would have deterred me from further efforts in this direction, but it did not. I had left Miss Laniston without asking some questions I had intended to put to her. I wished very much to know I thought it was my right to know something definite about the Mr.
"The story is briefly this," replied Miss Laniston: "A certain gentleman courted Sylvia's cousin, and everybody supposed they would be married; but in some way or other he treated her badly, and the match was broken off; then, a few years later, this same person fell in love with Sylvia, who knew nothing of the previous affair.
I did not know Miss Laniston's name, but I have also met her, and talked to her about you, and she knows you used to write for me, and I do not like her." Sylvia answered not a word, but, as she sat and looked at me with wide-open eyes, I told her what had happened since my companion and I had landed at Racket Island. I omitted only my confidences to Mother Anastasia and Miss Laniston.
Then I went to your club, to your lawyer's office, and several other places where I supposed you might go, but no one had seen or heard of you. Then a fear began to creep over me that you had had some greatly depressing news from Miss Laniston, and that you had made away with yourself." "Walkirk!" I exclaimed, "how dared you think that?"
I could not put my thoughts into form, and with my mind in chaos I strode up and down the room until Miss Laniston returned. "What an uneasy person you are!" she said. "Have you settled that little point?" "Settled it! There is nothing to settle." She laughed. "I am not so sure about that. I thought I saw a change in the wind when you were here last, and it is natural enough that it should change.
Vanderley," said Miss Laniston, "I forbid you to utter one word of that outpouring, which you would have poured out yesterday morning, had it not been so urgently necessary to catch a train. When I am ready for the effusion referred to, I will fix a time for it and let you know the day before, and I will take care that no one shall be present at it but ourselves."
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