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"Don't think of it," cried Elizabeth, making a sudden effort to change the conversation, from a fear that dwelling upon the danger which she had incurred might bring on one of Elsie's nervous attacks. "No," added Mellen; "it is all over now, quite over don't think of it any more." "You look pale, Grant." "No wonder, no wonder!" The girl gave him one of her wilful smiles.
Piccolomini sprang at the paper in Fan's mouth, and a contention ensued between them which attracted general attention. "Fanny's got a paper," cried Elsie, pointing towards her pets. "It may be a letter," said Mellen; "Dolf often sends them in by her; call off Pick, Elsie; she'll tear it."
If there ain't no danger 'taint fit to send any horse out in a storm like this anyhow." "I can't stand arguing here," Mellen began, but the old man unceremoniously interrupted him. "Where do you want to go?" he asked. "Over to Piney Cove." "Mr. Mellen's place! Why it's good three miles, and he ain't to hum, nor hasn't been, nigh on to two years."
"How does Syb Is that what you call her? how does she know? Oh, I remember now. It is the girl who served at Miss Mellen's home," Weldon said, as light began to dawn. "Ya, Boss; dat Syb." "And she is here with Miss Mellen?" Kruger Bobs nodded. "What are they doing?" "Dey is nurses sick mens." "How long have they been here?" "One, tree, five day." "Five days," Weldon translated to himself.
Mellen in the woods he took a moment for consideration, and then walked quickly towards the shore tavern. As he turned a point which led from Piney Point to the bluff which overhung it, his servant, the young mulatto, who had spent most of the season at this retreat, came to meet him with a letter in his hand.
Harrington's invitation to remain with her during the first period of that dreary honeymoon. Mellen and Elsie were standing on the porch when Fuller drove up to the house, and dashed in upon them with such an outpouring of confusion and delight that it might have softened the most obdurate heart.
"Perhaps I tried the experiment to see how much you loved me?" Mellen lifted her in his arms and rested her head upon his shoulder, while many emotions struggled across his face. "Child!" he said, in a tremulous voice, "you knew before you have always known. My mother's treasure my pride my blessing!"
She went out of the room as she said these words and entered her chamber, locking the door carefully behind her, as if she feared that he might intrude upon her. Half an hour after the newly-united husband and wife met at the supper-table, and Grantley Mellen saw that Elizabeth had quite recovered from the sudden shock of his arrival in that unexpected way.
"Obey him," answered North, with a sneer. "I would do almost anything. Yes, and I will do even that; but you are the only woman on earth for whom I would so bend and creep to this man." These words stung Mellen like vipers, but he would not allow those two criminals to know how his heart writhed. "It is well," he said; "there is more to be done. Go and finish your work." North took up the spade.
"He praised you very highly, and I told him what a dear you were; and how sad it was for you to have lost all your fortune and be obliged to teach." The color slightly deepened on Elizabeth's cheek; was it possible that in the beginning Grantley Mellen had been interested in her from a feeling of pity and commiseration?
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