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Flee from Elvir Hill, young swain, or the maids of Elle will have power over you, and you will go elf-wild!—so say the Danes. I had unconsciously laid myself down upon haunted ground; and I am willing to imagine that what I then experienced was rather connected with the world of spirits and dreams than with what I actually saw and heard around me.
Spears were splintered, Shields gan shatter, shafts to break. They fought all together folk unnumbered. Tambre was in flood with unmeasured blood. No man in the fight might any warrior know, Nor who did worse nor who did better so was the conflict mingled, For each slew downright were he swain were he knight. There was Modred slain and robbed of his life day.
Phyllis, without replying, raised it to her lips and drank deep. The swain watched anxiously. ''Ere, give us a chanst! he said, as the pot was raised higher and higher and its contents appeared to be getting less and less. At this the amorous shepherdess stopped and handed the pot to her lover.
The only other thing you can do is to permit me to stay here until to-night." "Until to-night?" "Miss Vaughan asks me to meet her to-night." "In her father's grounds?" "Yes." "Unknown to him?" "Yes." "He is not friendly to you?" "No." I had a little struggle with myself. "See here, Swain," I said, "sit down and let us talk this thing over calmly.
"I'm far from an ideal host but you'll find some books on my desk that may interest you I got them up to-day. Take a look at them after dinner." He went back to bring out his car, and Swain sat down again beside me. "Mr. Lester," he said, in a low voice, "I hope you haven't forgotten your promise." "What promise?" "To put Miss Vaughan in a safe place and to look after her interests."
Lloyd's letter than mamma told you of. There was ill news of one of your friends." "News!" She looked at me fixedly, and then continued, her voice so low that I was forced to bend over: "Yes. You were not told that Patty Swain fell in a faint when she heard of your disappearance. You were not told that the girl was ill for a week afterwards. Ah, Richard, I fear you are a sad flirt.
"A clue, certainly," said Godfrey; "but scarcely to the murderer." The doctor looked at it again for a moment, and then nodded. "I'd better put it back where I found it, I guess," he said, and dropped it beside the chair. And then, suddenly, I remembered Swain. I turned to find him still drooping forward in his chair, apparently half-asleep.
For the greater part of the English community the whole thing was rather a bad joke, with the Rajah for its victim. That a pretty woman should have unbarred the gates which no other force, diplomacy or cunning had been able to stir was a matter for light, somewhat contemptuous laughter. Rajah Nehal Singh was nicknamed the Impressionable Swain.
For a moment, we all sat silent. The only portion of her evidence which could in any way help Swain was her discovery of the swaying curtain, and even that, as Goldberger had pointed out, might easily mean nothing. "Miss Vaughan," I said, at last, "how long a time elapsed from the moment you left your father in the library until you found him?" "I don't know. Perhaps fifteen minutes."
He had heard it often before, and had been roused by it to evil wishes, and sometimes even to evil words, against the musician. It was the effort of some youth in the direction of Staple's Inn to soothe with music the savageness of his own bosom. It was borne usually on the evening air, but on this occasion the idle swain had taken up his instrument within an hour or two of his early dinner.
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