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The next evening Thurston repaired to the mossy dell in the expectation of seeing Marian, who, of course, did not make her appearance. The morning after, filled with disappointment and mortifying conjecture as to the cause of her non-appearance, Thurston presented himself before Jacquelina at Luckenough. He happened to find her alone.
"I seen de lady lying like dead, and a man jump up and run away, and when I went nigh, I seen her all welkering in her blood, an' dis yer lying by her," and the boy handed a small poignard to his master. It was Thurston's own weapon, that he had lost some months previous in the woods of Luckenough. It was a costly and curious specimen of French taste and ingenuity.
The first was, that Marian's mysterious lover had been present in the neighborhood, and perhaps, in the mansion at the time of the house-warming at Luckenough that he had met her once or more, and that his name was not Thomas Truman that the latter was an assumed name, for, with all her observation and astute investigation, she had not been able to find that any one of the name of Truman had ever been seen or heard of in the county.
There were also other considerations that rendered it desirable for Miriam to reside at Dell-Delight, rather than at Luckenough: Commodore Waugh would have made a terrible guardian to a child so lately used to the blessedness of a home with her mother and withal, so shy and sensitive as to breathe freely only in an atmosphere of peace and affection, and Luckenough would have supplied a dark, and dreary home for her whose melancholy temperament and recent bereavements rendered change of scene and the companionship of other children, absolute necessities.
He had been received with unbounded joy by his child-friend; had brought her his outgrown suit of uniform; had spent several months at Luckenough, and renewed his old delightful intimacy with its little heiress presumptive, and at length had gone to sea again for another three years' voyage. And it must be confessed that Jacquelina had found the second parting more grievous than the first.
And Marian, guarding her happy secret, entered the cottage to make preparations for keeping her appointment with Thurston. Meanwhile, at Luckenough, Dr. Grimshaw kept his room until late in the afternoon. Then, descending the stairs, and meeting the maid Maria, who almost shrieked aloud at the ghastly face that confronted her, he asked: "Where is Mrs. Grimshaw?"
And very much delighted and very grateful they were for the opening for education thus made for them. And very zealously they entered upon their academical studies. They boarded at the college and roomed together. But their vacations were spent apart, Thurston spending his at Dell-Delight, and Cloudy his at Luckenough.
Cloudy's ship had been ordered home sooner than had been expected; he had reached Norfolk a week before, B that afternoon, and had immediately procured a horse and hurried on home. Hence his unlooked-for arrival. "How is Thurston? How is Miriam? How are they all at Luckenough?" "All are well; the family at Luckenough are absent in the South, but are expected home every week."
And how should he prevent her coming to the beach and waiting for him there? He did not know where a message would most likely now to find her, whether at Luckenough, at Old Fields or at Colonel Thornton's. But he momentarily expected the arrival of Dr.
"But where are you going to go, Miss Edith?" asked her groom, Oliver, now speaking for the first time. "Back to Luckenough." "What for, Miss Edith, for goodness sake?" "Back to Luckenough to guard the dear old house, and take care of you two." "But oh, Miss Edy! Miss Edy! for Marster in heaven's sake what'll come o' you?" "What the Master in heaven wills!"
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