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I was so dead in earnest and so truly in love that I was no fit company for man or beast, and I'm afraid I was twice as awkward and dull in Madelene's presence as in any other place. "Dandy Tamplin was a handsome young fellow, and a formidable rival, for he was always well-dressed, a good talker and more or less of a lady's man.
"I went right out on the deck, begged pardon to begin with, introduced myself, confessed to eavesdropping, told who I was, where I had been and asked for that letter. "I got it and Madelene's picture; the one you have seen on my clock. "I finished my task at Valparaiso while the vessel lay there, reported by mail, and came home on the same ship.
Madelene's conversation he had not heard, and it was not until she spoke directly to him that he remembered her presence. "Don't you think so, Fred?" she was asking. He heaved another sigh as he left Ithaca and came back to France after that flight of fancy. "Don't I think what? I really didn't hear what you said, Madelene," he admitted guiltily. Madelene experienced a hot flash of indignation.
"In six months I was back on an engine in a new country, with my silent, loved and loving wife, in a new home. Three times before now someone has seen Madelene's face, twice I told this story, and then we moved away; once I told it and trusted, and it was not repeated. Madelene can stand being a mystery and wondered at, but she cannot stand pity and curiosity.
Frederick," he continued more soberly, "as you know, I'm Madelene's only near relative. Her mother has been dead many years, and since father ... was killed, she has only me left. I want her to be happy, ... to have everything that makes life worth while. She's chosen you, and I feel sure she's wise in her choice." He stood up, his great height towering above the boy, who also rose.
"I'm an old woman, and" with an appeal for contradiction that went straight to Madelene's heart "I'm afraid I'd be in the way?" "In the way!" cried Madelene. "Why, you're the only one that can teach me how to take care of him. He says you've always taken care of him, and I suppose he's too old now to learn how to look after himself." "You wouldn't mind coming here to live?" asked Ellen humbly.
"That afternoon I was lolling in the smoking-room on deck, when I was attracted by the sound of ladies talking on the promenade just outside the open port where I sat. It was the engineer's wife and daughter. "'Mamma, said the young lady. 'I must read you Madelene's letter. Poor, dear Madelene, it's just too sorrowful and romantic for anything. "Madelene!
Madelene's instinct had searched out the false ring in his voice and manner; it was again instinct that assured her all was now well. And she straightway, and without hesitation from coquetry or doubt, gave herself frankly to the happiness of the love that knows it is returned in kind and in degree. "Yes, everything else will come right," she said. "For you are strong, Arthur."
Adelaide's eyes shifted. Clearly Madelene's keen, pretense-scattering gaze was not one to invite to inspect a matter which might not look at all well stripped of its envelopes of phrase and haze.
If Madelene's satisfied, I am," replied Frederick, flipping the ash from his cigarette. "Then be ready to get away by, let me see, early in March," his brother-in-law announced. Early in March, and this was but December! He had that much grace then. He could do something for Tess if the family relaxed its vigilance upon him a little. "And there's something else," proceeded Waldstricker.
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