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She only remembered the student that he was smiling into her eyes, and that, his sister, too, Teola Graves, had sympathized with her. With a radiant, grateful smile, she turned to go, the door opening under her eager grasp. It was here that Dan Jordan spoke: "Won't Miss Skinner have some coffee?" Tessibel looked at him with an incredulous glance.
Teola sat next to Frederick on the end, Mrs. Graves between her and her younger daughter. Tess noticed the tense expression upon the sharp profile of the babe's mother. How glad Teola would be when the baby was baptized! How happy in the new-found Heaven for her child! The minister's voice had fallen into a prayer.
"But you don't want to be dead now, sweetheart! Think of it, Teola. When I shall have finished college, I shall be of age. We will go away from Ithaca, and no one will ever know " "But we shall know, Dan. If I had only been a good girl!" Dan was visibly moved. "Let's make a bargain," said he suddenly. "To-night we won't talk of anything but the pleasantest of things.
You are not yet eighteen. You've always been well until these past few weeks.... Oh, I wish your mother and I had never gone abroad or that you had gone with us.... But you begged so hard to stay at home!" Teola had coveted the chance to tell him of the little human link between Dan Jordan's life and hers.
To Teola he looked so tall and strong, so capable of explaining, that she rose, too. "I will tell you mother," said the student. "The girl was in distress. In some way she had been led to believe that prayers, effective prayers, could bring about any desired result. She simply came to ask us to pray for her father." Teola was by his side now, reassuringly pressing his arm.
Teola lifted the infant, and kissed it passionately, bending her head over it, praying. Tess could not enter upon such a holy scene. She sank down upon the turf. The basket yawned upon a bed of moss, its flannel rags hanging over the edge. Teola was making the babe ready to return to its bed, when Tess slipped under the branches of the short sumac trees, and entered the clearing.
That air because he has so many lines in his face, and he air so little," she finished, wrinkling the sun-tanned cheeks and shrugging her shoulders almost disdainfully. Teola knelt down, and slipped one slender arm under the dark head. These two girls had been drawn together during the past few weeks by a tie stronger than death.
Through the small garret window she could see Rebecca moving in her room, preparing to go out. The library, facing the lane, was dark. But the streak of light flung long upon the porch told the squatter that the Dominie's family was in the drawing-room. Tess ventured to the back of the house, drawing near the dark kitchen. Here was where Teola had placed the milk for several days.
"Let me see," reflected Frederick, "we are having a meeting at the fraternity, but we might come down afterward, unless we are kept too late." "Don't let them keep you," pleaded Teola, flashing her brilliant eyes into Frederick's face, "you and Mr. Jordan have influence enough to get away, even if you are freshmen." The student stooped and kissed his sister fondly.
She saw unbelief rise quickly in his eyes, and saw him draw aside his long rain-coat as it almost touched the box upon the floor. Shrinking disgust of the wriggling, whimpering thing on the rags made Frederick involuntarily reach out his hand to his sister, but his eyes were bent upon Tess. "And you're the girl I've trusted!" he gasped, as Teola neared him slowly.
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