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Garth thoroughly distrusted the man; but he could see no harm to Natalie in accepting his offer, while privately determining to relax none of his vigilance. It was only too true, as Mabyn had said; neither could afford to quarrel. Mabyn had no gun, and Garth could not leave Natalie's side for an instant. "I am willing," said Garth readily.
They made two trips back and forth between the island and the mouth of the creek; and afterward, while Mabyn saddled and packed the horses, Rina paddled to Garth's camp to get the promised rations. They both awaited her on the bank. Rina presented the mask-like face they had grown accustomed to, and maintained a dogged silence.
"The manners of some of her relatives might prove embarrassing." "Yes, that is true enough," Mabyn said with hot cheeks. "If ever I became a relative of yours, my manners no doubt would embarrass you very considerably. But I am not a relative of yours as yet, nor is my sister." "May I consider that you have said what you had to say?" said he, taking up his hat.
"And supposing, Mabyn," he said slowly "supposing you and Wenna were to leave at ten, and that it is a beautiful clear night, you might walk down by the wood instead of the road; and then, supposing that you came out on the road down at the foot, and you found there a carriage and pair of horses " Mabyn began to look alarmed.
"Really, I think your interference is lather extraordinary, Miss Mabyn," said Mr. Roscorla, striving to contain his rage. "I beg your pardon," said Mabyn meekly. "I only want to say a word or two. Wouldn't it be better here than before the servants?" With that she led Wenna away. In a minute or two she returned. Mr. Roscorla would rather have been shut up in a den with a hungry tigress.
No, tie your handkerchief round the foot of one of the trees, and come up early in the morning to look." "Early in the morning?" said Mabyn. "I hope to be in I mean asleep then."
As they drove down into this place, which is called the Rocky Valley, a magpie rose from one of the fields and flew up into the firs. "That is sorrow," said Mabyn. Another one rose and flew up to the same spot. "And that is joy," she said, with her face brightening. "Oh, but I saw another as we came to the brow of the hill, and that means a marriage," her companion remarked to her.
Mabyn and you and Natalie and I!" Her eyes sought his with a poignant glance; and she paled again. He felt he had made an impression. "I will treat him kindly," he said, seeking to follow up his advantage. "You shall go to the shack now for everything he needs; and we will take it to him." "Can I spik with him?" asked Rina in a low tone. Garth rejoiced it was the first token of submission.
Trelyon pets her as if she were a daughter already; and everybody every man, woman and child in Eglosilyan would rather see that come about than get a guinea apiece. Oh, mother, if you could see the picture that I see just now!" "It is a pretty picture, Mabyn," her mother said, shaking her head. "But when you think of everybody being agreed, you forget one, and that is Wenna herself.
"She would have hated me if I had married him," said Wenna simply. "Oh, Wenna, how dare you say such a thing?" Mabyn cried. "What do you mean by it?" "Would a lady in her position like her only son to marry the daughter of an innkeeper?" Wenna asked rather indifferently: indeed, her thoughts were elsewhere.
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