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Updated: May 18, 2025
"Why, sky and earth and river, dear, and the little dicky birds all a-preening under this sweet, sunny veil of rain. Is not all this mystery of nature wonderful enough to lure us to the rifle-platform?" Said Lana listlessly: "I had liefer court a deeper mystery." "Which, dear one?"
On the rifle-platform above, the soldiers of the garrison stood looking down at us. And now I heard the short, ringing word of command, and out of the gate marched our twenty riflemen, Boyd striding lightly ahead. Then, as he set foot on the log bridge, I saw Dolly Glenn standing there, confronting him, blocking his way, her arms extended and her eyes fixed on him. "Are you mad?" he said curtly.
"For the last few minutes there has been a sound in the woods very far away, Euan yet, if one could hear so far I would swear that I heard the conch-horn of your rifles!" "Did I not tell you she knew it well?" said Lana with her pallid smile, as we opened the massive guard-door, squeezed through the covered way, and came out along the rifle-platform among our noisy soldiers.
I turned to look for Lana; and first caught sight of the handsome wench, Dolly Glenn. And, following her restless gaze, I saw that Boyd had come up to the rifle-platform to join Lana, and that they stood together at a little distance from us. Also, I noticed that Lana's hand was resting an his arm.
When we rose on tiptoe, I thought she was asleep, but Lois was not certain; and as we crept out onto the rifle-platform and seated ourselves in a sheltered corner under the parapet, she said uneasily: "Lanette is a strange maid, Euan. At first I knew she disliked me. Then, of a sudden, one day she came to me and clung like a child afraid. And we loved from that minute.... It is strange."
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