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She thought she would have fainted at that instant, but something suspense, the faint possibility of success, doubt nerved her to action. After a few moments of awful uncertainty she followed Sempland along the hallway, out through the door, and into the night. He was not to be seen. She knew where he had gone, however, and she bent her steps toward the government wharf.
"You wish to avoid the danger?" queried Beauregard, gazing intently at Lacy. "He does it as a favor to me, General," interrupted Sempland. "He has had his chance, and I have had none. I begged and implored him to allow me to go, and only wrung a most reluctant consent from him." The general turned his head away, his fingers tapped softly on the desk.
Do not choose me, if you should be so fatuously inclined, because I happen to have had some chances for distinction, for I assure you, on my honor, all there is left of it, that if Sempland gets half a chance he'll do better than I. Choose because you love him or me." The girl stared from one to the other in indignant bewilderment. Lacy was an ideal lover.
"Your mistress has sent for me," said Sempland. And from where she stood in the drawing-room, Fanny Glen's heart leaped at the tones of his voice. "Yas, suh," returned the darky, obsequiously ushering him through the hall. "Step right dis way, suh, Mass' Sempland. Miss Fanny done axes you to go in dis room at de end ob de passage, suh. An' she tol' me she gwine be wid you in a minute, suh."
Lacy was handsome and gallant and distinguished, in spite of all, but Sempland was strong a man indeed. "Oh!" she cried, looking at him, "if you only had done something great or " "What!" he cried, his face alight. But she turned instantly away. In her words Lacy, more subtile and more used to women, read her preference and his rejection.
He is the very incarnation of bulldog tenacity and resolution. If I don't get you, he certainly will." "How dare you comment upon me?" cried Sempland. "Patience, my good sir," said the other, coolly. "You commented upon me in my absence. I comment upon you in your presence. The advantage is mine. As I said, Miss Glen, it is a choice between us.
There was a tap on the door. "What is it?" he called out impatiently. "It's me, Lieutenant Sempland Sergeant Slattery," answered the sergeant of the guard, a whilom friend to the prisoner. "On me own account, sor, I come to tell ye that they'll be afther comin' for ye in a few minutes, an' ye'd better git ready fer 'em.
Seeing the visitor safe within, Cæsar calmly withdrew, and as he adroitly coughed violently in the passage Sempland did not hear the ponderous key turning in the old-fashioned lock. He waited a few minutes, and then, as time was precious, he looked around for a bell. Seeing none he walked to the door, laid his hand upon the knob, and tried to open it. It did not give.
Toward the close of 1863, however, there was an eclipse in the general hospital, for Fanny Glen fell ill. She was not completely recovered, early in 1864, when she had the famous interview with Rhett Sempland, but there was not the slightest evidence of invalidism about her as she confronted him that afternoon in February.
Sempland had called upon me in the afternoon. They they had each of them asked me in marriage. We we quarrelled. Mr. Sempland left me in anger, Major Lacy divined that I I cared for Mr. Sempland. He came back later in the evening and told me Mr. Sempland was going to blow up the Wabash, and he begged me to see Mr. Sempland again and bid him good-by.
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