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A half-smothered oath of horror and dismay broke from Venner, after a moment. It brought Cervera to his side, and she snatched the paper from him and read the story of her own failure; the miscarriage of her own jealous and murderous design. She suppressed the shriek of mingled disappointment and fury that rose to her twitching lips, then passionately cast the paper upon the table.
It was not one of those conversations which a third person can report minutely, unless by that miracle of clairvoyance known to the readers of stories made out of authors' brains. Yet its main character can be imparted in a much briefer space than the old black woman took to give all its details. She went far back to the time when Dudley Venner was born, she being then a middle-aged woman.
"Enter!" reiterated Milo, and curiosity got the better of them, for a swirl of fragrance eddied out to them, and one by one, until the hall was dotted with them, ruby and amber lights twinkled before them, seeming to beckon them on to something mysterious in the shadows beyond the soft lights. "Neck or nothing!" muttered Venner, leading the way. His friends followed in silence.
So the girls made their basket, and the floor of it they covered with the rich olive-purple leaflets. Such late flowers as they could lay their hands upon served to fill it, and with many kindly messages they sent it to Miss Elsie Venner at the Dudley mansion-house.
Every lady sees, of course, that Helen was quite right; but perhaps here and there one will think that Dudley Venner was all wrong, that he was too hasty, that he should have been too full of his recent grief for such a confession as he has just made, and the passion from which it sprung. Perhaps they do not understand the sudden recoil of a strong nature long compressed.
The Old Boys' match was the event of the Easter term. "We'll hope they aren't in training. Now for the list. First I want Flint. It's the Euclid that does it. You must work deductions with me. Perowne, extra mechanical drawing. Dawson goes to Mr. King for extra Latin, and Venner to me for German. Have I damaged the First Fifteen much?" He smiled sweetly. "Ruined it, I'm afraid, sir," said Flint.
Do you think that I should have refused to throw myself heart and soul into the affair and do my best to help those who were dear to you?" "I suppose I lost my head," Vera murmured. "But do not let us waste too much time regretting the last three years; and do not let us waste too much time at all, or we shall lose our train." "That is bringing one back to earth with a vengeance," Venner laughed.
Dudley Venner to enter. He saluted them all gracefully with the good-wishes of the season, and each of them returned his compliment, Helen blushing fearfully, of course, but not particularly noticed in her embarrassment by more than one. Silas Peckham reckoned with perfect confidence on his Trustees, who had always said what he told them to, and done what he wanted.
"Oh, I don't know," Gurdon laughed. "It is better to be a multi-millionaire than a king today. Take the case of this man Fenwick, for instance; the papers are making more fuss of him than if he were the President of the United States or royalty travelling incognito." Venner smiled more or less contemptuously.
But Helen noticed in all that Dudley Venner said about his daughter a morbid sensitiveness, as it seemed to her, an aversion to saying much about her physical condition or her peculiarities, a wish to feel and speak as a parent should, and yet a shrinking, as if there were something about Elsie which he could not bear to dwell upon.
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