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Tamplin turned around and espied Madelene's belongings. He went up to them, smelled the flowers, then hurriedly took a note out of his pocket and slipped it into one of the gloves. The other glove he put in his breast pocket. It was well for Dandy Tamplin I didn't have a gun. "Remember, all this happened quickly.
She wished she had not come; indeed, she had been half-wishing it during the whole three-quarters of an hour of watching and thinking on Madelene's wonderful life, so crowded with interest, with achievement, with all that Hiram Ranger's daughter called, and believed, "the real thing." "Nothing, nothing at all," replied she to Madelene's question.
Madelene's sad, tearful face flashed through Waldstricker's mind with the suspicions she had aroused against Frederick. Like an angry horse, his nostrils lifted and sniffed the air. Fury against this girl rode in his heart. "You needn't tell us the man's name," he taunted triumphantly. "We already know it." Up struggled Tess to her feet and thrust back the tawny curls feverishly.
She can marry Lysander Letts or " "Or what?" Madelene's elbows came to the table, a hand on each cheek. "Oh, Ebbie, do tell me! I'm so miserable about her. I wish she was dead!" "But, Ebenezer," said Helen, "it seems awful for such a refined girl to marry such a man!" The elder's uplifted hand came down on the table with a bang, and higher mounted his proud lip.
And Ellen thought herself chiefly responsible for the change. "I'm gradually getting things just about as I want 'em," said she. "It does take a long time to do anything in this world!" Also she believed, and a boundless delight it was to her, that she was the cause of Madelene's professional success. Everyone talked of the way Madelene was getting on, and wondered at her luck.
"I'd rather go by myself," he returned so curtly that Madelene bit her lips to keep back the tears. Stung with jealousy, the young wife watched her husband ride out under the bare trees to the road beyond. Then she ordered her own horse, and dressed herself quickly. Affairs between the young couple had reached a crucial point. Madelene's suspicions of Frederick were unusually active.
The days dragged; she kept away from Henrietta, from all "our set," lest they should read in her dejected countenance the truth, and more. Madelene's anteroom was full of poor people. They flocked to her, though she did not pauperize them by giving her services free.
She made a rapid step toward Tess, whose head went up instantly. The red-brown eyes battled an instant with the blue, stopping Madelene's progress. Frederick, stung to action, reached forth and grasped his wife's arm. "Madelene!" he exclaimed. His tone brought flashing eyes upon him.
Helen sighed as she again allowed her eyes to rest on the page in her hand. "But I feel sure his interest in her isn't because of what she did for his sister," Madelene's letter continued. "Will you take some pains to find out all you can for me, Eb dear? It might be well for you to see her yourself, and perhaps you could make her admit something. I don't want you to worry about me, though.
"Ebenezer dear, why will you get yourself into such a state of excitement over a set of people who'll never come into your life at all?" she begged of him. There was gentle reproof in her tones. Ebenezer glanced at her sharply. "Never come into my life at all!" he repeated. "Does this look as if they never came into my life, eh?" He leaned over and tapped Madelene's letter.
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