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Rita had not been seen since the night before, save by Elizabeth, who pronounced her well, but "a little upset, Miss!" and Elizabeth's face was a study in repression as she spoke. "And the boys, Uncle?" Margaret asked, when she was assured of Rita's safety. "What have you done with them?" Mr. Montfort laughed. "Poor boys!" he said. "Poor lads! they have had a hard time of it."
The girl's habitual fear of her mother returned, and lifting her head she tried to move away from Dic, but he held her. Mrs. Bays reached the bedside and stood facing them in silence. The court of love had adjourned. The court of justice was again in session. She snatched up Rita's hand and pointed to the ring. "What is that?" she asked sternly. "That is our engagement ring," answered Dic.
Bays prohibited her from visiting the jail; but, despite Rita's fear of her mother, the girl would have gone had not Dic emphatically forbidden. Doug recovered, and, court being then in session, Dic's trial for assault and battery, with intent to commit murder, came up at once.
The door was locked! Greatly startled, Margaret stood motionless for a few minutes, thinking and listening. At first all was still. Footsteps above her head, Elizabeth was going to bed; then the familiar creak of the good woman's bed; then silence again. Rita's room was across the hall, and she could hear no sound from there.
Pyne lowered two of the collapsible seats for Kilfane and himself, and the party set out for Limehouse. "Oh!" cried the fair-haired Mollie, grasping Rita's hand, "my heart began palpitating with excitement the moment I woke up this morning! How calm you are, dear." "I am only calm outside," laughed Rita.
"I don't want to do anything of the sort," answered Dic; "but if you don't let loose of Rita's arm, I'll " "What will you do?" asked Doug, laughing uproariously. For a moment Dic allowed himself to grow angry, and said, "I'll knock that pumpkin off your shoulders," but at once regretted his words. Doug thought Dic's remark very funny, and intimated as much.
Before they had settled the position of the new rose-bed, Rita's door was heard to open softly; then came the sound of trailing garments in slow and stately motion, and the next moment Rita entered the room. She was dressed in deep black from head to foot. A black veil covered her hair, and hung gracefully from her shoulders, and in her hand she carried a black fan.
Dic knew that the sudden plunge from joy to anguish had brought a benumbing shock, and while he sat beside the fire he realized that his suffering had only begun that his real anguish would come with the keener consciousness of reaction. At four o'clock that same afternoon Billy was seated in Rita's parlor, whispering to her. "My dear girl, I bring you good news. You can't save Tom.
The next morning took Williams away, and Rita's thoughts were all devoted to formulating a plan whereby she might see Dic and beg his forgiveness after a fashion that would have been a revelation to Williams. Several days of furious storm ensued, during which our Rita, for the first time in her life, was too ill to go abroad. Mr.
Still, Dic's visits were permitted to continue, and doubtless would be permitted so long as they should be made ostensibly to the family. Tom's remarks upon Sukey and Sukey's observations concerning Dic had opened Rita's eyes to certain methods prevalent among laddies and lasses, and as a result Sukey, for the time, became persona non grata to her old-time friend.
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