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Once he laid hands upon Nella-Rose, he would act promptly and hopefully, but he must be sure, now, before he made a misstep. There had been mistakes enough, heaven knew; he must no longer play the fool. And then when the little gilded cage was ready, Truedale conceived his big and desperate idea. Two weeks had passed since Jim White's letter and no telegram or note had come from Nella-Rose.
The lamp had burned itself out and the storm was again howling in its second attack. Chilled and obsessed by an unnerving sense of danger, Truedale waited for he knew not what! Just then something pressed against his leg and he put his hand down thinking one of the dogs was crouching close, but a whispered "sh!" set every muscle tense. "Nella-Rose?" "Yes but, oh! be mighty still.
"When I stay, I stay, but once I take ter the woods there ain't no sayin'. I'll fetch fodder when I cum, and mail, too but I ain't goin' ter hobble myself when I take ter the sticks." Tramping back alone over the wet autumn leaves, Truedale had his first sense of loneliness since he came.
But Ann was gazing up at her with a strange, penetrating look. "It's the comfiest lap in the world," she faltered, "for little, tired girls." "I I love her!" Lynda gazed up at Truedale as if confessing and, at the end, seeking forgiveness. "Of course you do!" he comforted, "but be brave, Lyn!" He feared to excite Ann. Then the weary eyes of the child turned to him.
Stern resolve began to melt before the girlish sweetness and audacity, but Truedale made one last struggle; he thought of staunch and true Brace Kendall! And, be it to Brace Kendall's credit, the course Conning endeavoured to take was a wise one. "See here, Nella-Rose, you ought not to come here alone!" "Why? Aren't you glad to see me?" "Of course. But why did you come?" This was risky.
When he makes you mine by his" Truedale was going to say "ridiculous jargon" but he modified it to "his authority, no one in all God's world can take you from me. Come, come now, sweetheart!" In another moment he would have had her in his arms, but she held him off. "I'm mighty afraid of old Jim White!" she said. Truedale laughed, but the words brought him to his senses.
She never let go this thought and only hesitated before voicing it to Truedale because she feared he could not understand and might cruelly misunderstand.
He, Truedale, felt that no law of man was needed to hold him to the course he had chosen, back on the day when he determined to forsake the past and fling his fortunes in with the new. Never in his life was Conning Truedale more sincere or, he believed, more wise, than he was at that moment.
All the spiritual essence left in him survived best in those rooms. As time went by and Nella-Rose as an actuality receded, her memory remained unembittered. Truedale never cast blame upon her, though sometimes he tried to view her from the outsider's position. No; always she eluded the material estimate.
More and more as the time went on and Truedale kept his faith and walked his way near hers oh! they were thankful for that but still apart, Lynda wondered. It was all so futile, so utterly selfish and childish yet neither spoke. Then suddenly came the big thing that drove them together and swept aside all the barrier of rubbish they had erected.
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