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"Thank you, Grey," Bessie said, just as Dorothy came in with a letter for her mistress, who took it in her hand and bending to the firelight recognized Neil's hand-writing, while her cheeks flushed as she saw her new name, Mrs. Grey Jerrold, and thought that Neil was the first to address her thus. Breaking the seal, she read as follows: "LONDON, December , 18 .
Instead, he spoke quietly to the other. "Was it you that killed Phil, Reilly?" The man whirled and saw Neil for the first time. His answer was instant. Flinging up his rifle, he pumped a shot at York. Neil's retort came in a flash. Reilly clutched at his heart and toppled backward from the precipice upon which he stood.
It's a serious crime, you know; house-breaking, and robbing his Majesty's mails. We can only hope it won't come to that. The hearers all drew a long breath, like a gasp. 'Let's go down and sit on the rocks, said Marjorie abruptly. 'Now, Euan, tell us how you think it happened. 'Well, said Euan, 'the only explanation is, that that order came into Neil's possession without his knowing it.
Just what "dear Neil's" innermost thoughts were need not be conjectured. He escorted the lady from the big ballroom, and Durand whisked Peggy away to Mrs. Harold, though he said nothing to the girl he was raging too fiercely inwardly, and felt sure if he said anything he would say too much. Nor was Peggy her usual self. She seemed obsessed by a forewarning of evil days ahead.
At two o'clock the train pulled into the station of Dellsport where Teeny-bits and Neil said good-by to the half dozen of their schoolmates who were going farther west. They found waiting for them in a closed car Mrs. Durant and Sylvia Durant, Neil's sister, who immediately made Teeny-bits feel at ease by talking about school affairs.
We ran up the Oakland Estuary and came to anchor, and in the days that followed, while Neil was ashore, we tightened up the Reindeer's rigging, overhauled the ballast, scraped down, and put the sloop into thorough shape. This done, time hung heavy on our hands. Neil's wife was dangerously ill, and the outlook was a week's lie-over, awaiting the crisis.
In the coach's was just the merest twinkle, a very ghost of a smile; but Neil saw it, and it said to him as plainly as words could have said, "I know just how you feel, my boy, but you'll get over it after a while." The coach passed on and the flush faded from Neil's cheeks; he even smiled a little. It was all right; Mills understood. It was almost as though they shared a secret between them.
Watson's procession and leading all the boys away?" he demanded hotly. Neil's inbred reverence for the cloth had suffered somewhat under Mr. Egerton's efforts to teach him to sing, so he answered promptly, "I never! I jist cut off with the other fellows." The minister's temper was fast slipping from his control. "Don't dare to tell me that!" he cried, snatching the boy's arm.
Ever since Neil's accident he had made it his duty to inquire daily after him, and the two were getting very well acquainted. Neil likened Mills to a crab rather crusty on the outside, he told himself, but all right when you got under the shell. Neil was getting under the shell. To-day, after Neil had reported on his state of health and spirits, he brought out Sydney's diagram.
And so in a measure Bessie was comforted, and watched her father with untiring vigilance, and felt that he was slipping from her and that in all the world there was for her no ray of joy except in Neil's love, which she never doubted, and without which her heart would have broken, it was so full of care and pain.
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