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Are you through with this examination have you any more questions to ask?" "That tone that look, Elizabeth; you are not like yourself!" "No wonder blame yourself for it. I cannot and will not endure this system of espionage I will have my liberty that you may understand!" Mellen's passionate temper flamed up in his face, but he controlled it resolutely and did not speak.
A servant brought in the supper, and they sat down opposite to each other at the board; but even during those first hours of reunion the strange greeting which his return had met would linger in Grantley Mellen's suspicious mind, and, in spite of Elizabeth's cheerful manner, her color would come and go with tremulous fitfulness.
A stern, settled purpose would keep her through her course, whatever might lie behind. During those happy days there had been no more confidences between her and Elsie; indeed it seemed almost as if Elizabeth avoided the girl not in a way to be noticed even by Mellen's quick eyes if it was so, Elsie on her side did not attempt to break through these little restraints that had fallen around them.
At midnight of the 16th the last rivet was driven; but the ice had gained to such an extent that the lower chord was buckled down-stream about eight inches, and the distance was growing steadily. Quickly the traveler was shifted to the false-work beyond the pier, and the men under Mellen's direction fell to splitting out the blocking.
"Mellen's the most splendid fellow in the world," pursued he; "and you couldn't well be sad with that little darling about you." Elizabeth took up her silks again. "Dismiss all such thoughts from your mind, Tom." "I shall be only too glad. But tell me once more that I am an over-anxious busybody, minding everybody's concerns but my own.
As these sounds died off, she attempted to reach the window and look out, but only fell upon the couch which stood near it, and fainted without a moan. A day or two after Mellen's departure, Elizabeth, who was taking her solitary promenade on the veranda, was surprised by a visit from Mrs.
The story had gone abroad that he was a daring burglar, and that the officers had surprised him breaking into Mellen's house. He had found no strength to tell his story, so fear of open disgrace perished with him. In the madness of his grief, Mellen had forgotten that Tom Fuller was his guest.
Appleton halted his command and stole forward, approaching the place through the tangled alders which flanked it. He had anticipated that the rival party would be up to this point by now, if not even farther advanced, and he was both angered and relieved to sight the tops of other tents pitched a few hundred yards beyond Mellen's outfit. So they were here! He had arrived in time, after all!
With the next morning began preparations for Mellen's departure; and during the bustle of the following week, no one found much time for thought or reflection. Tom Fuller came down suddenly, and opened his heart to Elizabeth. He was going to Europe; he did not ask to see Elsie; lacking the courage to meet her again for the present once more, perhaps, before he went away; but not yet.
Elsie's cries, and tears, and hysterical spasms, kept the whole household in commotion. She should never see her brother again never, never. Elizabeth might not be good to her. Sisters-in-law and school-friends were different creatures; she had found that out already. If she could only have died with her mother! These cries broke out vehemently on the night before Mellen's departure.
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