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The tiny, fair-haired infant had been stolen from their midst. They would have thanked God if it had been lying cold in death upon its mother's bosom. Slowly throughout the long night that terrible night that was never to be forgotten the solemn bells pealed forth from the turrets of Whitestone Hall, echoing in their sound: "Unhappy is the bride the rain falls on."
'I must strike him through his love for that little pink-and-white baby-faced creature he is so madly infatuated with. Remove her from his path, Lester, she cried, 'and I shall make it worth your while. You asked me once if I would marry you. I answer now: remove that girl from his path, by fair means or foul, and I give you my hand as the reward, I, the heiress of Whitestone Hall.
The master of Whitestone Hall was young; those who knew his story were not surprised that he should marry he could not go through life alone; still they felt a nameless pity for the young wife who was to be brought to the home in which dwelt the child of his former wife. There would be bitter war to the end between them.
"I hope I shall bring good news, in one sense; the other we will discuss later on." The master of Whitestone Hall made no comments; still he wondered why the detective had used the words "one sense." Surely, he thought, turning pale, his long-lost child could not be dead.
The crimson-breasted robins were singing in the budding branches of the trees, and all Nature reminded one the glorious spring had come. Rex Lyon stood upon the porch of Whitestone Hall gazing up at the white, fleecy clouds that scudded over the blue sky, lost in deep thought. He was the same handsome, debonair Rex, but ah, how changed!
There is necessarily a short reach in this passage, where it is always slack water, so far as current is concerned. This is precisely where the tides meet, or, as has been intimated, at Whitestone, which is somewhat more than a mile to the westward of Throgmorton's Neck, near the point of which stands Fort Schuyler, one of the works recently erected for the defence of New York.
She has gone to Whitestone Hall, you say, to stop the marriage?" he questioned, eagerly. "Yes," she replied, "the poor child was almost frantic over it. You seem greatly agitated, Harvey. Have you some new case connected with her?" "Yes," he answered, grimly. "I think I have two cases." Mr. Tudor seldom brought his business perplexities to his fireside.
We weighed anchor and towed through Hellgate, when the wind and tide served us until we passed Whitestone, as far as which the tide, from the direction of New York, usually reaches. We sailed bravely by and obtained the ebb tide in our favor which carried us this evening beyond Milford. 21st, Friday.
To retard her advance, however, the wind came out a smart working breeze from the southward and eastward, compelling her to make "long legs and short ones" on her way towards Whitestone. "This is beating the wind, Rosy dear," said Mrs. Budd, complacently, she and her niece having returned to the deck a few minutes after this change had taken place.
Rex bowed coldly and turned away; his heart was too sick for empty words, and the heavy-hearted young man, who slowly walked down the graveled path away from Whitestone Hall in the moonlight, was as little like the gay, handsome Rex of one short week ago as could well be imagined.
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