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They sat in that old fashioned room talking for a long time. It was the happiest, most peaceful day they had spent since Mellen's return. After a time, Mellen proposed that they should go out to ride, for the afternoon was sunny and delightful. "A long gallop over the hills will do you good," he said; "it is a shame to spend such weather in the house."
"She's better, I am quite sure; she slept two or three minutes; so don't look so downhearted," he cried, seizing Mellen's hand as he dismounted. "But where's Elizabeth? I thought you had gone after her." "Elizabeth, my wife," answered Mellen, lifting his haggard eyes to Tom's face. "She is gone lost dead. My friend, my friend, I have murdered your cousin, murdered my own wife."
A gemman, too, as has been a visitor in dis dentical house. Marster catched him in de act ob takin' out de silver, and de gemman robber, I mean felt so 'shamed ob himself dat he up and banged a bullet straight frough his own bussom, afore Miss Elsie, too!" "Poor thing; precious little darling," cried Tom; "Mellen's left her all alone, and Elizabeth away; dear me! Dolf, Dolf, what was that?"
So I said to myself, 'I'll cut across the fields, down the hill, and stop at Mellen's, beg a dinner, and get him to send me over in time for the five o'clock train' wasn't a bad idea, eh?"
Dan knew that Mellen's crew was camped at the upper crossing, busied in drilling for the abutments and foundations of the bridge; but he reasoned that they would scarcely suspect the object of Gordon's party and that, in any case, they were not organized or equipped to resist it.
After the night on which the bracelet was lost, the sunshine which had brightened the little household at Piney Cove was dimmed by a thousand intangible shadows. In spite of all his efforts, Grantley Mellen's suspicions were aroused and kept on the alert, searching for proofs that could only bring unhappiness when found.
It was exactly to prevent the inevitable consequences of Alice Mellen's knowing the story that he was seeking to extort the promise from Carew. To protect his motive, however, he took a sudden resolution. "I shall not even tell my mother," he answered, with slow emphasis. Carew raised his brows. "Then I suppose that ties my tongue. I am sorry.
The pilot came to Mellen's side, and made a signal for the boat to wait. Then some luggage was lowered and Grantley Mellen came down the side of the steamer, and took his seat in the little craft, which flew away with him towards the clouded shore.
From that day Tom Fuller took a place in Mellen's esteem which he had never held before; his gratitude was unbounded, and as he learned to know and appreciate the young man, he found a thousand noble qualities to admire under that rugged exterior.
"Nothing ever can seem foolish from your lips," he said, softly; and she blushed like a girl at his praise. "That woman you you loved once," she said; "was she dearer to you than I am?" Grantley Mellen's face darkened. "Let me blot out all thought of that time," he exclaimed, passionately; "I would like to burn out of my soul every trace of those years in which she had a part.
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