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Updated: June 11, 2025
But here again I should have been wrong, as I was apt to be in those days; for Tom intended no harm whatever, and his gaze was of pure curiosity; though Annie herself was vexed with it. The two objects of his close regard, were first, and most worthily, Lorna's face, and secondly, the ancient necklace restored to her by Sir Ensor Doone.
However humble I might be, no one knowing anything of our part of the country, would for a moment doubt that now here was a great to do and talk of John Ridd and his wedding. We heard that people meant to come from more than thirty miles around, upon excuse of seeing my stature and Lorna's beauty; but in good truth out of sheer curiosity, and the love of meddling.
"Oh, if Bobbie were only here!" thought Mary in despair. "This man is a villain. It is he who has been filling Lorna's mind with stage talk. I don't believe he is a theatrical man, either. They would not insult me so!" The manager bustled about. "Closing time, girls. Get everything orderly now, and hurry up.
And Benita knew this ring as well as she knew her own fingers, having heard a long history about it; and the effigy on it of the wild cat was the bearing of the house of Lorne. For though Lorna's father was a nobleman of high and goodly lineage, her mother was of yet more ancient and renowned descent, being the last in line direct from the great and kingly chiefs of Lorne.
Then Carver Doone, with his deadly smile, gloating upon her horror, lifted his long gun, and pointed full at Lorna's heart. In vain she strove to turn away; fright had stricken her stiff as stone.
Therefore Annie found it sparkling in the little secret hole, near the head of Lorna's bed, which she herself had recommended for its safer custody; and without a word to any one she brought it down, and danced it in the air before the Counsellor, for him to admire its lustre. 'Oh, that old thing! said the gentleman, in a tone of some contempt; 'I remember that old thing well enough.
It was not the value of the necklace I am not so low a hound as that nor was it even the damned folly shown by every one of us it was the thought of Lorna's sorrow for her ancient plaything; and even more, my fury at the breach of hospitality. But Lorna came up to me softly, as a woman should always come; and she laid one hand upon my shoulder; and she only looked at me.
Moreover, it was only right that I should learn, for Lorna's sake, how far Annie, or any one else, had penetrated our secret. Therefore, I went forth at once, bearing my pipe in a skilful manner, as I had seen Farmer Nicholas do; and marking, with a new kind of pleasure, how the rings and wreaths of smoke hovered and fluttered in the moonlight, like a lark upon his carol.
She met her friends away from the house, and returning at night she walked the last few blocks. It was this fact that awoke Lane's serious suspicions. Another problem lay upon Lane's heart; if not so distressing as Lorna's, still one that added to his sorrow and his perplexity. He had gone once to call on Mel Iden. Mel Iden was all soul.
I'm not very good at dancing or I'd get you to turkey trot with me." Lorna's voice was whiny now as she responded. "Oh, I'm feeling funny. That cocktail was too much for me.... I guess I'd better go home." "There, there, my dear," Shepard reassured her. "You get that way for a little while, but it's all right. You'd better have a little beer that will straighten you up."
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