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He called me 'Mother, he sent such a wonderful message to his father." And at the last word, Ragnor uttered just such a sharp, short gasp as might have come from the rift of a broken heart. "Did you ask him any question, Rahal?" "I could not speak, but my soul longed to know what he was doing and the longing was immediately answered. 'I am doing the will of the Lord of Hosts, he said.
There was not a movement, not a sound; it seemed as if both men hardly breathed. But when Ragnor moved, he stood up. "Let us be going," he said, "they are anxious. They are watching. You shall do as you say, Ian." Rahal saw them first. Thora was lying back in her mother's chair with closed eyes. She could not bear to look into the empty road watching for one who might be gone forever.
No one can keep them away from a house in trouble. Thora must marry. I see no endurable way to prevent it." Then being dressed she went to Thora's room, and gently opened the door. Thora was standing at her mirror and she turned to her mother with a smiling face. Rahal was astonished and she said almost with a tone of disapproval, "I am glad to see thee able to smile.
Really, Rahal, I did not know the words were in my mind, till his aggravating questions made me say them." "What words? Art thou troubled about them?" "A little. He was talking of faith and doubt, especially as it referred to the Bible, and I listened until I could bear it no longer.
I give Ian credit for it." "Did thou advise him to write it?" asked Rahal. "No, it sprang from his own heart." "Thou should not have sanctioned it." "Ian did right, Rahal. I did right to sanction it." "Father, if Ian has a clear plan of success before him, what is it? He ought to have told us." "He thought it out while we were at sea, he asked me to explain the matter to you.
So Ian went to the seaside and found plenty of amusement there in watching a family quarrel among the eider ducks, who were feeding on the young mussels attached to the rocks which a low tide had uncovered. It was a pleasant walk to the Ragnor home, and Rahal and Thora were expecting them.
Conall loves his old friend Vedder; if he thought to interfere was right, he would advise Vedder to interfere or he would interfere for him, and my wish was to spare thee the sorrow that comes from women's tongues. I was also sure that if the news was true, it would find thee out if not true, why should Rahal Ragnor sow seeds of suspicion and ill-will? Is Sunna disobedient to thee?"
She was thinking of Ian and of the new life he was going to, and of the long, lonely days that might be the fate of Thora. "The woeful laddie!" she whispered, "he has had but small chances of any kind. What can a lad do for himself and no mother able to help him!" The Bishop heard or divined her last words and he said, "Be content, Rahal.
Or perhaps the offence is with Rahal Ragnor? Not long ago thou spent an afternoon with her and black and dangerous as a thunder storm thou came home." "This day the dinner was an accidental gathering. Rahal knows well that I have no will to dine with Mistress Brodie. Dost thou want her here, as thy stepmother?"
A messenger from the warehouse came quickly to the house, with a letter from Ragnor to Rahal and a letter from Ian to Thora. Ragnor's letter said they had had a rough voyage southward, the storm being in their faces all the way to Leith.
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