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He kept shaking his head wisely, as though debating on great problems, and he drove his horses with a master-hand he had once been a coach driver on that long river-road, which in summer makes a narrow ribbon of white, mile for mile with the St. Lawrence from east to west. This was the proudest moment of his life.
By this time we were driving on briskly toward the river-road. "You wa'n't smart, I reckon, to leave that there house. It was your one chance, hevin' got in. Ten chances to one she's hid away som'eres in one of them upper rooms," and he pointed to a row of dormer-windows, "not knowin' nothin' of your bein' there." "Stop!" I said with one foot on the shafts.
Owing to the broken character of the country, the N.S.W. river-road lay three or four miles north of Charley's very private property; but a short cut, impassable during the winter, and impracticable at any time to wheeled vehicles, saved about three miles in ten, and passed within a mile of the property. It was beside this pad that I was camped.
They have not asked for leave to say definitely: "This or that object is hideous or disfiguring, and cannot be allowed by the side of our national highway." But they have said, "This or that object which grows on or lives by the side of our river-road is beautiful, and gives pleasure to the public, and therefore it shall not be destroyed."
Bradley dipped in his purse for another sovereign, and two chinked in Riderhood's hand, the drawing action of which, promptly strengthening, drew them home to his pocket. 'Now, I must follow him, said Bradley Headstone. 'He takes this river-road the fool! to confuse observation, or divert attention, if not solely to baffle me.
"By what road shall I meet her?" "There are two roads: we generally use the river-road." "To-night? I will go to meet her. By the river-road, you say?" "Yea." "And if I do not meet her?" "If thou dost not meet her," said the lady-abbess, answering calmly, "it will be because she is detained on the road." I had to believe her, and yet I was very skeptical.
"By what road shall I meet her?" "There are two roads: we generally use the river-road." "To-night? I will go to meet her. By the river-road, you say?" "Yea." "And if I do not meet her?" "If thou dost not meet her," said the lady-abbess, answering calmly, "it will be because she is detained on the road." I had to believe her, and yet I was very skeptical.
Caught, now and then, upon some whirling gust, the leaves were blown to the surface of the river itself, and, like scuttled craft, swept hastily to ports unknown. Rosemary escaped from the house early in the afternoon. Unable to go to the Hill of the Muses, or up the river-road, she had taken a long, roundabout path around the outskirts of the village and so reached the hills back of the vineyard.
She was advanced in years, and old residents remembered when she was one of the quaintest figures and most assertive spirits in the town, for until a few years before her death she was rude of speech, untidy in appearance, loved nothing or respected nothing unless it might be her violin and her money, and lived alone in a little old house on the river-road to Springwells.
The latter was the most plausible. No motives were conceivable by which one of the fugitives could be induced to post himself here, in this conspicuous station; whereas, the road which led you to the summit of the hill, to that spot where descent to the river-road was practicable, could not be found but by those who were accustomed to traverse it.
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