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Caracuna City goes under quarantine to-night, and Puerto del Norte to-morrow, as soon as proper official notification can be given." "Then plague has actually been found?" "Determined by bacteriological test this morning." "How do you know?" "I was present at the finding." "Who did it? Dr. Pruyn?" The other nodded. Sherwen whistled. "Better make ready to move, Mr. Brewster," he advised.
On his side, Pruyn had come to the house with a very special purpose. In spite of the stoutness of his protest when young Wappinger's name was coupled with his child's, he was not without some inward misgivings, which he resolved to allay once and for all.
It was something like that with this Mr. Pruyn." "Where was it? In Paris?" "I met him first in Ireland. He was staying with some friends of ours the last year mamma and I lived at Kilrowan. What I remember about him was that he seemed so young to be a widower scarcely more than a boy." "Is that all?" "It's very nearly all; but there is something more.
It was the February of a year later before it became a definite necessity no longer to be put off. In the mean while, under the beneficent processes of time, sunshine, and Diane Eveleth's cultivation, Miss Dorothea Pruyn had become a "bud." The small, hard, green thing had unfolded petals whose delicacy, purity, and fragrance were a new contribution to the joy of living.
Eveleth could be heard coming slowly down the stairs. But before she had time to enter the room Derek Pruyn, using the privilege of a relative, walked in without announcement. If the morning had brought surprises to Miss Lucilla van Tromp, it had not denied them to the Marquis de Bienville. They were all the more astonishing in that they came out of a sky that was relatively clear.
Society in general showed its appreciation, and Derek Pruyn was proud. He was more than proud; he was grateful. The development that had changed Dorothea from a forward little girl into a charming maiden, and which might have been the mere consequence of growth, was to him the evident fruit of Diane's influence.
You've got to look at things all round, and not mistake your shadow for your bone." "I'm glad you see there is a shadow." "I see there is only a shadow." "A shadow on what?" Pruyn meant this for a leading question, and as such Dorothea took it. She gazed at him for a minute with the clear eyes and straightforward expression that were so essential a part of her dainty, self-reliant personality.
Because Mr. Pruyn has misunderstood you, I've had to give up my my place" she forced the last word with a little difficulty "and until something like a good name is restored to me I shall find it hard to get another. You can have no idea of what that means. I had none, until I had to face it.
Now that the first part of her purpose in coming had been accomplished, she was free to remember what the comedy with Carli had almost excluded from her mind that within an hour or two Derek Pruyn and she might be face to face again. The thought made her heart leap as with sudden fright.
Pruyn if, looking only on the mingled tides, he does not see that they flow from dissimilar sources. Though I left his house abruptly, it was not because he drove me forth; it was rather because I feel that, until I have regained some measure of his respect, I cannot be worthy in his eyes nor in my own to be under one roof with his daughter."
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