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After dinner it will not be too late for Sylvan to take my sure-footed cob and ride back to Rockhold and explain to the family that Cora is to remain here overnight, and that I will myself take her home to-morrow evening if she should wish to go." "What do you say, Cora," inquired the young man. "I accept Uncle Fabian's offer and will remain here for the present," said the young lady.
Rockharrt and Cora had few arrangements to make, for the autocrat had warned them that they were to take only sufficient for the voyage, as they could buy whatever they needed on the other side. A few days before they left Rockhold, Rule Rothsay came uninvited to visit his beloved Cora. Mr. Rockharrt happened to be the first to see him, and received him well.
These papers were brought by a special messenger from North End, who started from the depot as soon as the earliest train arrived with the morning's mail and reached Rockhold by seven o'clock. She had not sat there many minutes before Mr. Rockharrt entered the study.
They went to the hotel to get dinner and to engage the one hack of the establishment to take them to Rockhold. Almost the first man they met on the hotel porch was Mr. Clarence, who rushed to meet them. "Hurrah, Sylvan! Hurrah, old boy! Back again! Why didn't you write or telegraph? How do you do, Cora! Ah! when will you get your roses back, my dear? And how is his Majesty? Why is he not with you?
And, Fabian, I hope you will reconsider the matter, and bring Violet to Rockhold to join our family reunion." "No, Clarence," said the elder brother; "there is just where I must draw the line. I cannot introduce my wife to the new Mrs. Rockharrt." "But it seems to me that you are very fastidious, Fabian.
"Clarence will stay home, then," replied Mr. Fabian. "Doctor, you heard my grandfather order me to leave Rockhold this morning to join my regiment. Now, what do you think? May I see him before I go?" inquired the young lieutenant. "I will let you know when he wakes," said Dr. Cummins. "Must you leave us to-day, Sylvan? Could you not be excused under the circumstances?" inquired Mrs. Rockharrt.
Do you know, Cora, that old house has never had its furniture renewed within my memory? Some of the rooms are positively mouldy and musty. And whoever heard of a wealthy man like my father bringing his wife home to a neglected old country house like Rockhold, without first having it renovated and refurnished?"
He joined his wife in trying to persuade Cora to remain with them yet another day; but Cora explained that there were many reasons for her return to Rockhold. Finding her obdurate, Mr. Fabian ordered Mrs. Rothsay's landau to be at the door at a certain hour. And as soon as dinner was over and Cora had put on her bonnet and taken leave of Violet, with a promise to return within a few days, Mr.
"No; not so much of it even as you have heard. Now, look here, Cora, you think it inconsistent perhaps that I should have brought this woman to Rockhold years ago to become your governess, and now, when she is my father's wife, object to your intimacy with her. In the first instance she has been far, very far, 'more sinned against than sinning; she had been very imprudent, that was all.
"I have left Rockhold finally. I shall leave North End by this six p.m. train, en route for the South," continued the rejected lover. "Then, by ! if she has driven you out of my house, she shall go herself! I have done the best I could for the woman, and she has repaid me by ingratitude and rebellion. And she shall leave my house at once!" exclaimed the despot in a tone of savage resolution. "Mr.
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