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Merefleet glanced at her sharply, his attention arrested by something he did not understand. Seton pushed a glass of sherry towards her, but he was looking at Merefleet. "News indeed!" he said deliberately. "Is it actually an accomplished fact?" "According to the New York Herald," said Merefleet. Mab's face was growing whiter and whiter.
It was during those first wonderful moments of a new day that Mab woke up with a start shivering, and stretched out her arms with a cry of wonder. Hours before, Merefleet had persuaded her to try to rest, and she had fallen asleep with her head against his knee, soothed by the calm that at length succeeded the storm.
And with a strange little smile into his face, she drew the shawl closer about the child in her arms and disappeared into Quiller's cottage. There was something in this interview that troubled Merefleet unaccountably. But when he saw her again, her mirth was brimming over, and he thought she had forgotten.
The man's simplicity amused him. "I can't say I have," he said carelessly. "Good-looking women are not always the best sort, in my opinion." "That's very true, sir," assented his companion thoughtfully. "There's my wife, for instance. She's as good a woman as you'd find anywhere, but her best friend couldn't call her handsome, nor even plain." And Merefleet laughed again.
"So I understand," said Merefleet. "I hope the reputation will be my protection." Young Seton became genial from that point onward. Without being communicative, he managed to convey the impression that he was quite prepared to be friendly. And for some reason unexplained Merefleet was pleased.
Merefleet. And she belonged to that fiend." They began to walk towards the boats through the shifting shingle. Merefleet had nothing to say. There was something in her passionate speech that disturbed him vaguely. She spoke as one whose most sacred personal interests had once been at stake. "Lucky for her she's dead, Big Bear," she said presently, with a side-glance at him.
"Ah, I remember you now," Merefleet said. "You came as Ralph Warrender's guest to a club dinner in New York. Am I right?" "Perfectly," said Seton. "You were the guest of the evening. You made a good speech, I remember. You were looking horribly ill. I suppose that is how I came to notice you particularly."
He said nothing, however, and they went in together in unbroken silence. Mab did not reappear that night. A fortnight passed away and Merefleet was still at the hotel at Old Silverstrand. Mab was there also, the idol of the fisher-folk, and an unfailing source of interest and admiration to casual visitors at the hotel.
"Oh, you lazy old Bear!" she said reprovingly. "What good will that do you?" "I don't know that I want anything to do me good," Merefleet returned. He had become almost genial under these unusual circumstances. It was certainly no easy matter to keep this exceedingly sociable young lady at a distance. He was watching the warm colour rising in her face as she stooped over the fire.
Merefleet who had seen her last sobbing bitterly in her cousin's arms, stared up at her with wonder and relief on his face. She nodded to him. Her eyes were marvellously bright, but he did not ascribe their brilliance to recent tears. "You don't look exactly smart," she said critically. "Hope I don't intrude?" "Not a bit." Merefleet stumbled to his feet and raised his hat. "Pardon my sluggishness!
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