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Hugh made this comment as they stood surveying the latest consignment of robes, which reposed with considerable reverence on the specially constructed tables in the new part of Tennys Court. Amused perplexity revealed itself in the faces of the couple. "I think this last pair of trousers, if you should ever wear them, will revolutionize the habits of the island.
Her list of good English names for this utterly heathen community covered such places as Velvet Valley, Hamilton Hills, Shadburn Rapids, Ridgeway River, Veath Forest and others. Ridgeway gave name to the temple in which the natives paid homage to them. He called it Tennys Court. Her room in the remodelled temple was a source of great delight to Lady Tennys. It was furnished luxuriously.
The white people were gratified to find in the assortment rich bananas and oranges, raw meat, peculiar shell fish, berries and vegetables resembling the tomato. At first the natives looked a little dismayed over the disordered condition of the temple, but no sign of resentment appeared, much to the relief of Lady Tennys.
"But where is the minister or magistrate?" "What have they to do with it?" "Everything, I should say. We can't get married without one or the other," he blurted out. She stopped stockstill with a gasp. "Get married? Why why, we have said nothing of getting married." "And that's just why I am speaking of it now. I want you to be my wife, Tennys. Will you be my wife, dear?" he asked nervously.
"Well, there have been thousands of ships to escape them all, I fancy," said Ridgeway boldly. The two women were speechless. "And there have been thousands of storms, too," added Veath, a sort of wild exultation ringing in his voice, plain to Grace if not to the others. "Do not try to deceive us, gentlemen," wavered Lady Tennys. "We can be a great deal braver if we know the real situation.
I am not here because I could have helped it. You must know that I " "For Heaven's sake, Tennys, don't talk like that! The trouble is that I do not regret having saved you. That's why you see the change in me that's why I've hurt you. I cannot be to you what I would be I cannot and be true to myself," he cried fiercely. "What do you mean? Why are you so unhappy, Hugh?
My little compass on the charm is all right and it will give us our bearings, north and south, so that I can get the time by the sun. I'll drive a little stake out there on the level, and when the shadow is precisely north and south, then it is noon. It's all very simple, Lady Tennyson." "I'm only the cook, Hugh. Won't you please call me Tennys?"
He, unconscious of the pain she was suffering, began to whistle joyously as he bustled about. "Tennys," he called, "do you know what has become of my shield?" "It is out here," she answered shrilly, her voice pitched high with the tension imposed. He came forth, tossing his sword on the ground at her feet, hastily taking the shield from a peg in the wall.
When the returning band of laborers was half way across Velvet Valley, Tennys, as was her wont, left her hammock and went forth to meet the man beneath the white sunshade. His pace quickened and his face brightened as she drew near. The hatless, graceful figure in white came up to him with the cry: "Why are you so late? Dinner has been waiting for an hour." "Pshaw!
His mind was chaotic, filled with the now certain defeat and the heart-breaking thought that Lady Tennys would be left to the mercies of the victors. Tears were mingling with the blood; his very soul was crying for strength, for hope, for salvation. In his din-stricken ears ran that wail: "What will become of me if you are killed?"
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