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Show no mercy!" were some of the pleasant returns that met Marjorie's ear. The Scarlet Mask, thus-called, made a sudden move toward Marjorie as though to lay violent hold upon her. The other masked figures also took a step nearer. Marjorie braced herself to meet an attack, if it came to that. There was a steady light in her brown eyes which the Scarlet Mask did not miss seeing.
Back they came, and again the court-room was as the holding in of one painful breath, and then tears started in the eyes of the woman in black, the mountain girl by her side, and in Marjorie's, and the court- room broke into stifled cheer, for the words all heard were: "Not guilty." At the gate of the college a crowd of students, led by Gray Pendleton, awaited Jason.
At the top of each page Uncle Steve would write the date or the place in dainty, graceful letters; and often he would write a name or a little joke under the separate souvenirs, until, as time went on, the book became one of Marjorie's most valued and valuable possessions. Marjorie had been at Grandma Sherwood's about weeks, and as a general thing she had been a pretty good little girl.
On the one side lay such an excitement as he had never yet known for Anthony was no merely mad fool a path, too, that gave him hopes of Marjorie, that gave him an escape from home without any more ado, a task besides which he could tell himself honestly was, at least, for the cause that lay so near to Marjorie's heart, and was beginning to lie near his own.
She was so bundled up in wraps and scarfs and veils, that they could scarcely see her face at all, but Marjorie introduced her to the others, and then Delight cuddled down in the straw close to Marjorie's side. "Isn't it strange?" she whispered. "I never saw a sleigh before without seats in it. Won't we fall out?" "No, indeed!" answered King, heartily; "that's just what we won't do.
Howard and Ned went after them, and Charlie was just ready to follow when he heard some one coming up behind him on his blindfold side. "Wait just one minute, Charlie," said Marjorie's voice in his ear. "I want to say something to you just to say" She paused, and swallowed hard for a minute; then she went on steadily, "how sorry I've been that I was so mean to you that day your eye was hurt.
'Yes, the estates, he went on, 'and tenants, I suppose your mother-in-law, your little Marjorie's future, your own future. 'The estates are in capable hands, I should suppose, she urged, 'and my future depends upon what I choose my work to be. 'But one cannot shift one's responsibilities, he replied gravely. 'These estates, these tenants, have come to you, and with them come duties.
Aside from the delicious things to eat, everybody was so gay and glad over Marjorie's return, that all was laughter and jollity. "How different our two families are," said Midge, thoughtfully; "here we are having such fun and frolic, and the Spencers are just having an every-day, quiet dinner." "Aren't they glad the sickness is all over?" asked Kitty. "Yes, of course.
"Here," said Uncle Steve, as he put the weight into Marjorie's hand, "this is perhaps as useful a birthday gift as the key I gave you. Pull hard, and see what happens." Marjorie pulled hard, and as she pulled, a rope ladder came tumbling down from the edge of the little porch.
"I told you I wouldn't try to run away," she said, "and neither I didn't. But I had a right to yell, and if anybody heard me, I hope he'll come right straight here! You are bad, wicked women!" The child's righteous indignation had its effect on the women, and they hesitated, not knowing exactly what to do with this little termagant. And strange to say, Marjorie's ruse had succeeded.
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