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There was no one in the garden visible but Cecil Mayford and Alice, and she was at that moment busily engaged in pinning a rose into his buttonhole. "The audacious girl!" thought Mrs. Buckley; "I am afraid she will be a daughter of debate among us. I wish she had not come home." While Mrs. Mayford continued, "I am far from saying, mind you, my dear Mrs.
By this time Tom was set at supper, and between the business of satisfying a hunger of fifteen hours, began asking after old friends. "How are the Mayfords?" he asked. "Poor Mrs. Mayford is better," said Mrs. Buckley. "She and Ellen are just starting for Europe. They have sold their station, and we have bought it." "What are they going to do in England?" asked Tom.
"I think I am going to have some more quiet peaceful times. I am happier than I have been for many years. Do you know why? Look there." "I shuddered to hear her say so, knowing what I knew, but looked where she pointed. Her son sat opposite to us, next to the pretty Ellen Mayford. She had dropped the lids over her eyes and was smiling.
Whether it was merely coquetry, or whether she was angry at their hunting the emus, or whether she for a time preferred Cecil's company, I know not; but she, during the next week, neglected Sam altogether, and refused to sit beside him, making a most tiresome show of being unable to get on without Cecil Mayford, who squired her here, there, and everywhere, in the most provoking fashion.
And why did her handsome, kindly face light up with such a radiant smile when she saw her son Charles come riding along under the shadow of the great trees only two days after Cecil Mayford had proposed to Alice, and had been refused? He came out of the forest shadow with the westering sunlight upon his face, riding slowly.
Some one of the many sleepers, with that strange hoarse voice peculiar to those who talk in their dreams, said, with singular energy and distinctness, "I will go, sir; they will call me coward." "That's young Mr. Hawker, sir," said the trooper. "His sweetheart's brother, Mr. Mayford, was killed by them yesterday. The head of this very gang, sir, that villain Touan his name is Hawker.
Mayford," she said, "if I thought you were in jest, I should feel it necessary to tell my father and brother that you had been impertinent. I can only believe that you are in earnest, and I deeply regret that your personal vanity should have urged you to take such an unwarrantable liberty with a girl you have not yet known for ten days."
I should have had a dull week, but I knew you were enjoying yourself with your old friend at Garoopna. A great party there, I believe?" "I am glad to get home, mother," he said. "We were very jolly at first, but latterly Sam Buckley and Cecil Mayford have been looking at one another like cat and dog. Stay, though; let me be just; the fierce looks were all on Cecil Mayford's side."
'If she prefers Mayford, says Sam to himself, 'in the way she appears to, why, she is welcome to him, and I can go home as soon as I am assured of it. And go home he would, too, and never say one word of complaint to any living soul." "What a clear, brave, honest soul that lad has!" said the Major. "Truly," said the Doctor, "I only know one man who is his equal." "And who is he?" "His father.
"You are forgiven, my boy, be it what it may. I hope it is nothing very serious." "Well, it is very serious," said Sam. "As I was coming by Hanging Rock, I rode up to the door a minute, to see if Cecil was at home, and Mrs. Mayford came out and wanted me to get off and come in, but I hadn't time; and she said, 'The Dean is coming here to-night, and he'll be with you to-morrow night, I expect.
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