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In the morning when he came down to the breakfast table, the family were already assembled, and the Judge had heard the story from De Courcy, who told it all the more forcibly in the absence of Miss Vanuxem, who had spent the night at the house of another relative. When Tom entered, his paternal parent was ready to receive him.
The ball was given by a gallant Delisleville Club in honour of Miss Delia Vanuxem, and it was a very magnificent affair indeed. The disguise of the dining-room was complete. It was draped with flags and decorated with wreaths of cedar and paper roses.
"The De Willoughby mansion restored to its former elegance. Mr. Thomas De Willoughby the possessor of wealth, and the two young people " She bridled a little, gently, and touched her eyes with her handkerchief with a slight cough. "When Marse De Courcy an' Miss Delia Vanuxem was married, dar was people from fo' counties at de infar," said Matt.
The latch of the side gate clicked and the gate opened. Presently Uncle Matt appeared round the rose-bushes. He had his market basket on his arm and wore a thoughtful countenance. "Uncle Matt!" Rupert called out to him. "I wish you would come here." Notwithstanding his darkling moods, he was in a subtle way singularly like Delia Vanuxem.
It was a terrible day for the household, but at last it was over. Tom went to his room in an apathy. He had been buffeted and scorned and held up to bitter derision until he had ceased to feel anything but a negative, helpless misery. About a week later Delia Vanuxem appeared upon the scene. Delia Vanuxem was a young cousin of Mrs. De Willoughby's, and had come to pay her relatives a visit.
"Uncle Tom," he said, "I Delia Vanuxem was my mother." The moment ceased to be so fanciful and curiously exalted when his hand was grasped and a big, kind palm laid on his shoulder, though Tom's face was full of emotion. "I think I should have known it," he said. "Welcome to you. Yes," looking at him with an affection touched with something like reverence. "Yes, indeed Delia Vanuxem!"
He knew the story of Rupert, and guessed vaguely at the far past in which Delia Vanuxem had lived and died. "Thank God I saw you that day!" he said. "Thank God I went to you that night!" And they grasped hands again and went their separate ways. Latimer went home and told Baird of the meeting and of the appointment for the following day. "I felt that you would like to see the man," he said.
His gloomy young face had changed its aspect, his eyes suddenly looked like his mother's and Delia Vanuxem had been said to have the loveliest soft eyes in all the South. "Matt," he said, "I couldn't do without you. It isn't only that," with a gesture towards the table, "you it's almost as if you had come to save me."
He was in the condition when he was extremely gallant and paid flowery compliments to each pair of bright eyes he chanced to find himself near. When he first caught sight of him, Rupert was waltzing with a lovely little creature who was a Vanuxem and was not unlike the Delia Tom De Willoughby had fallen hopelessly in love with.
Vanuxem is one of the official geologists of the State of New York, and author of one of a series of volumes upon the geology of the State, about which I shall presently have something to say. To gain time I took the night train from Bristol to New York, and arrived at Mayor's at midnight, having written him to expect me.
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