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Vava meanwhile went to Stella's new office, and found her sister, with hat and jacket on, waiting for her. 'You have got done? I suppose they don't bring you tea here? said Vava. 'No, we must wait until we get home. We shall enjoy a cup of tea with dinner all the more, said Stella.
Stella's lot was that which numberless wives of naval officers have to endure; but, though widely shared, her grief was not the less poignant as she watched with tearful eyes through the admiral's spy-glass the corvette under all sail standing down the Solent.
I can't just now," sobbed Lucy, whose crying was partly the result of nervous excitement, as well as of her realizing for the first time Miss Preston's departure. And Stella, finding her attempts to soothe her unavailing, returned to her story-book, until the arrival of Mrs. Steele, whom she found more communicative. "And where is Lucy?" inquired her aunt, after satisfying Stella's curiosity.
It did not take long to rope the magpie pony and throw Stella's saddle on it. Now they were off into the northeast, where the Wichita Mountains lay. None of them knew just where the Hole in the Wall was, but Ted felt confident of finding it if there was such a place. They rode so hard, only stopping at noon to water the ponies, that early in the afternoon they entered the mountains.
She was nourished on baboon milk, and the baboon nature is in her veins. Such creatures should be killed, not kept. She will make you mischief if she can. But I will watch her, Macumazahn. Look, the Star is waiting for you; go, or she will hate me as Hendrika hates you." So I went, nothing loth, for attractive as was the wisdom of Indaba-zimbi, I found a deeper meaning in Stella's simplest word.
A mighty cheer went up from the boys, and the color came back into Stella's face with a rush, but she could not have uttered a sound to save her life. In the meantime, the bull had recovered, having rubbed the dust from its eyes in the short grass, and looked about for its enemy. It caught sight of Ted in the act of mounting, and sprang toward him with the swiftness of a deer.
One day more! And he said: "All right! You needn't tweak my mane!" "Hurrah!" At the station he wrote a second telegram to the farm, and then tore it up; he could not have explained why. From Brixham they drove in a very little wagonette. There, squeezed between Sabina and Freda, with his knees touching Stella's, they played "Up, Jenkins "; and the gloom he was feeling gave way to frolic.
Ralston's wistful blue eyes seldom rested upon the race-course. They looked beyond to the mist-veiled plains. The room she had prepared for Stella's reception looked in an easterly direction towards the winding, wooded road that led up to the Rajah's residence. Great care had been expended upon it.
Ted was holding the little mirror up to the sky, apparently in an endeavor to look through it. "What is it?" asked Bud, approaching the fire. "Dick has brought back Stella's little pocket mirror," said Ted. "I'd know it anywhere. But the back has been torn off it." "Tooken off ther neck o' an Injun?" said Bud, dropping his usual jolly manner.
Once or twice she was even a little jealous of Bud Jessup's ministrations; just as, thinking of him now, she was jealous of his constant nearness to Buck and the manner in which he seemed so intently to share all the other's plans and projects, and even thoughts. "Well, anyway," she said suddenly aloud, "I'm glad Stella's not here."
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