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"Reuther is a girl after my own heart," he gently supplemented, with a glance towards his papers lying in a bundle at his elbow, "and she shall not suffer because of this disappointment to her girlish hopes. Tell her so with my love." It was a plain dismissal. Mrs. Scoville took it as such, and quietly left the room.
It was to answer this question to face this new view of Oliver and the bearing it had on the relations she had hoped to establish between him and Reuther, that she had waited for the house to be silent and her child asleep.
"But," objected Deborah, "if you know where to look for him, why take the child? Why go yourself? Why not telegraph to these places?" His answer was a look, quick, sharp and enigmatical enough to require explanation. We shall have to surprise Oliver Ostrander, in order to place his father's message in his hands." "You may be right. But Reuther? Can she stand the excitement the physical strain?"
"It is sufficient for me." "Ah, perhaps." "But not enough for the public?" "Hardly." "Not enough for you, either?" "Madam, I have already told you that, in my opinion, John Scoville was a guilty man." "And this fact, with which I have just acquainted you, has done nothing to alter this opinion?" "I can only repeat what I have just said." "Oh, Reuther! Oh, Oliver!" "Do not speak my son's name.
"The only one I have heart for: the proving that Reuther is not the child of a wilful murderer; that another man did the deed for which he suffered. I can do it. I feel confident that I can do it; and if you will not help me " "Help you! After what I have said and reiterated that he is guilty, GUILTY, GUILTY?"
The judge drew a breath of relief and led Reuther towards a door at the end of the hall. "This is the way to the dining-room and kitchen," he explained." I have been accustomed to having my meals served in my own room, but after this I shall join you at table. Here," he continued, leading her up to the iron door, "is the entrance to my den.
Was the alienation between these two so complete as to block out natural sympathy? Had the separation of years rendered them callous to every mutual impression? She dwelt in tenderness upon the bond uniting herself and Reuther and could not believe in such unresponsiveness. No parent could carry resentment or even righteous anger so far as that.
Then as Reuther came ambling up, "Young lady, don't let me scare you, but it looks now as if the young man had taken a short cut to the station, which, so far as I know, has never been taken but by one man before. If you will draw up closer here! give me hold of your bridle.
Will you accept the position, if I add as an inducement my desire to have Reuther also as an inmate of my home? This does not mean that I countenance or in any way anticipate her union with my son. I do not; but any other advantages she may desire, she shall have. I will not be strict with her." "Judge Ostrander!" Deborah Scoville was never more taken aback in her life.
He! and she must face him! the man whom she by her blind and untimely efforts to regain happiness for Reuther, had brought to this woful pass! The ordeal was too bitter for her broken spirit and, shrinking aside, she covered her face with her hands like one who stands detected in a guilty act.
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