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All the way up the line he had been watching the far hills of Cashmere, and repeating to himself, "At last! At last!" The words had been a song at his heart, tuned to the jolt and rhythm of the wheels. Ralston of Peshawur had asked for him. So much he had been told. His longing had explained to him why Ralston of Peshawur had asked for him, and easily he had believed the explanation.
It was a curious fact that though she was always ready, and would even go out of her way, to snub the surgeon's wife, she had never once been other than gracious to the surgeon. "I don't suppose he will be actively implicated. He's too wily for that," went on Major Ralston. "But there's not much doubt according to Barnes, that he was in the know very much so, I should imagine."
She had met the great man at the Hotel Rafael a few days before, at tea- time, and he had asked Susan most affectionately of her aunt, Mrs. Lancaster, and recalled, with a little emotion, the dances of two generations before, when he was a small boy, and the lovely Georgianna Ralston was a beauty and a belle. Susan could have kissed the magic bit of pasteboard!
Some of your leading officials, it may be pleasant to you to know, are as arrant 'rebels' as even Virginia can furnish; and with them and the correspondence carried on through their offices, we have worked more effectively than in almost any other way." "Yes," said Leslie, looking steadily at Ralston, and with a wicked smile peeping out from under his moustache.
Poor devil! He's got it pretty straight." He had not seen the stricken man's face. He was too concerned with the wound to worry about any minor details for the moment. Tommy helped him to the best of his ability, but he was trembling so much that in a second Ralston swooped scathingly upon his weakness. "Steady man! Pull yourself together! What on earth's the matter?
Ralston had pondered the question with an uncomfortable vision before his eyes, evoked by certain words of Colonel Dewes a youth appealing for help, for the only help which could be of service to him, and then, as the appeal was rejected, composing his face to a complete and stolid inexpressiveness, no longer showing either his pain or his desire reverting, as it were, from the European to the Oriental.
It fell to Ralston to inform him in durbar in the presence of his nobles and the chief officers of the British force that the Government of India had determined to grant him a pension and a residence rent-free at Jellundur. "The Government of India will rule Chiltistan," said Ralston. "The word has been spoken."
And so Stella kept the little girl more and more in her own care, since Mrs. Ralston was still at Udalkhand, and no one else cared in the smallest degree for her welfare. She would not keep her for good, though, so far as her mother was concerned, she might easily have done so.
Ralston," says Claire, after a long pause in their converse. "She is thoroughly worn out, and yet, weary as she was, she must have talked with you for hours, Madeline, after we came back from the grave." Over Madeline's face flits an odd, half-sad smile, as she replies, dreamily: "Yes, we talked a long time, dear; Mrs. Ralston was then in the mood for talking.
Ralston,* which enjoy a high reputation in Russia. * Rambaud, "La Russie Epique," Paris, 1876; Ralston, "The Songs of the Russian People," London, 1872; and "Russian Folk-tales," London, 1873.
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