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Put on Scott's clothes, Naïda, and while our brothers are fighting, you and I will wrestle to prove that I'm not a mollycoddle " "I don't want to," said Naïda tremulously. "I like you, too " "Well, you're one if you don't!" retorted Geraldine. "You can like anybody and have fun fighting them, too." "Put on those clothes, Naïda," said Duane sternly. "Are you going to take a dare?"
And there's that stick of a Quest girl, and Bunbury Gray. Naïda came over this afternoon from the Tappans' at Iron Hill thank goodness " "I didn't know my sister was to be here." "Yes; and you make twelve, counting Geraldine and me and the Pink 'uns." "You didn't tell me it was to be a round-up," repeated Duane, absently surveying his chintz-hung quarters. "This is a pretty place you've given me.
"I couldn't come to you after the third dance," he said. "Why?" He evaded the question: "When I came back to the glade the dancing was already over; so I got Kathleen and Naïda to save a table." "Where had you been all the while?" "If you really wish to know," he said pleasantly, "I was talking to Jack Dysart on some rather important matters. I did not realise how the time went."
Yet supposing that this new wonder had not come into his life, that Immelan had been a shade more eloquent, had pleaded his cause upon a higher level, that Naida Karetsky also had formed a different impression of the world which he was studying so earnestly, what a transformation he could have brought upon this light-hearted and joyous scene!
"The papers are so gloomy, so eager in their search for evil, so merciless, so exultant when scandal is unearthed, that I can scarcely bear to read them. Why do they drag in unhappy people who know nothing about these matters? The interview with your mother and Naïda, which you say is false, was most dreadful. How cruel men are! "Tell them I love them dearly; tell your father, too.
Instantly he whipped off his campaign hat, and bowing to the saddle pommel, rode bareheaded out of sight. And from behind the curtain Naida watched the last horseman round the bluff angle, riding cheerfully away to hardship, danger, and death, her eyes dry and despairing, her heart scarcely beating. Then she crept across the narrow room, and buried her face in the coverlet of the bed. Mr.
Naïda, turning, saw the look on the boy's face. "Duane doesn't mean that," she said; "he's only teasing." Geraldine came hurrying back with the boxing-gloves and a suit of Scott's very best clothes, halting when she perceived the situation, for Scott had walked up to Duane, and the boys stood glaring at one another, hands doubling up into fists.
"He may have his faults, but he is an absolute idealist so far as regards his private life. There has never been a word of scandal concerning him and Naida, nor will there ever be. But in his eyes, Naida has that most wonderful gift of all, she has vision. He once told a man with whom I spoke in Berlin that Naida was the one person in the world to whom a mistake was impossible.
He looked at his watch, and ordered his horse to be saddled. It did not seem quite so simple now, this projected interview with Hampton, as it had appeared the night before. In the clear light of day, he began to realize the weakness of his position, the fact that he possessed not the smallest right to speak on behalf of Naida Gillis.
"Tell me about Naida," the former begged, a little abruptly. "Naida is a wonderful woman," Nigel declared enthusiastically. "We lunched at Ciro's. She wore a black and white muslin gown which arrived this morning from Paris. Afterwards we went down to Ranelagh and sat under the trees." "Throwing yourself thoroughly into your little job, aren't you!" Maggie sniffed.
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