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The electric light flashed on the opals, and they blazed with orange and tawny fires on the white velvet. Suzee gave a little cry of wonder and delight, and then sat staring at them breathlessly. "I don't feel at all inclined to give them to you now," I remarked coldly. "Oh, yes, Treevor, do let me have them. It was all the man's fault. I did not want him. I could not help it."
Suzee began to sob. Tears were her invariable refuge under all circumstances. "Treevor, you were so long. I was all alone, and I was sure you were with another woman." "If you would learn to believe what I say and not fancy every one tells lies, as I suppose you do," I answered hotly, "it would be a great deal better for you.
Suzee and almond eyes and injured husbands floated away from me on the dark wings of sleep. It must have been an hour or so later that I woke suddenly with a sense of suffocation. Some soft, heavy thing lay across my breast. I started up and two arms clasped my neck and I heard Suzee's voice; saying in my ear: "Treevor, dear Treevor, I have found you!
She slipped a little velvet hand into mine, and when we drew near to the hidden Styx, murmured softly: "We will find a dry place, Treevor, on the other side, and sit down among the trees. Then you must take me in your arms and I will be your own Suzee. I do not want my old husband any more." I stopped and looked down upon her. Not even the sad light could dim the soft brilliance of her face.
I went to dine with a bachelor friend this evening, as I told you, and what made me later than I otherwise should have been was that I stopped to buy a present for you on my way back." Suzee's tears dried instantly. "A present! Oh, what is it, Treevor?" she said eagerly. "Do show it me. Where is it?" I drew the case out of my pocket and opened it.
"Oh, it was all such a dreadful thing, Treevor," she returned, spreading out both hands, on the wrists of which heavy silver bangles set with amethysts shone and tinkled. "He went down one day to Fort Wrangle on business and when he came back one day after, he had a fearful cough, and then he got very ill and went to bed, and I sat beside him and he got worse and worse.
She smiled up delightedly at me and crawled out farther from the bed valance. "What are you doing down there?" I asked. "Wasn't the bed comfortable?" "Oh yes, Treevor, underneath I was very comfortable and warm. You see, I have always been accustomed to something over my head, and in this room the ceiling is such a long way off."
I paced up and down the quiet room lighted only by the night light, thinking over the horrid scene of the afternoon, and when it grew to be day I was hungering so for a companion to speak to and to feel with me, that I drew out my writing-case and wrote a long letter to Viola. "But, Treevor, I am so very dull when you go out, and when you are working it is as bad.
"Oh, but Treevor, that man said he had five more bulls, look, nobody is going yet," she returned, having evidently followed in her own sharp way the sense of the Spanish speech of the administrador. "Do you want to see any more?" I asked. "I think it is dull and tedious, as well as horrible."
At the sound of my voice there was a delighted cry, and the next moment a little form in scarlet drapery threw itself at my feet. "Treevor, Treevor," came in Suzee's voice; and I bent over the little scarlet bundle, lifted her up, and pressed my lips on her hair.
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