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Rosamund said stiffly and curtly: "She is asleep.... It is very late. Four o'clock." Excellent as was Audrey's excuse for her lapse, Rosamund was not at all pleased. That slumber was one of Rosamund's rare defeats. Audrey was in a white piqué coat and short skirt, with pale blue blouse and pale blue hat and at the extremity blue stockings and white tennis shoes.
"Yes, tell her," the latter said. "It is better than suspense." And so briefly, jerkily, the boy blurted on his news: "Phil's back again; but they haven't got the major. The fort was deserted, except for one old man, and they have brought him along. They are over at the colonel's bungalow now." He paused, shocked by the awful look his tidings had brought into Audrey's eyes.
No large bedchamber, within Audrey's knowledge, held so much apparatus, and offered so much comfort and so much wardrobe room as even the least of these cabins. It was impossible, to be sure, that in one's amused researches one had not missed a cupboard ingeniously disguised somewhere.
'Peter! she struggled feebly. 'Oh, let me go. I drew her nearer. 'I won't let you go, I said. But, as I spoke, there came the sound of automobile wheels on the gravel. A large red car was coming up the drive. I dropped Audrey's hand, and she stepped back and was lost in the shrubbery. The car slowed down and stopped beside me. There were two women in the tonneau.
Not but that," by this time Uncle Geoff and the old servant were out in the hall, but my ears are very sharp, and one can always catch one's own name more quickly than anything else "not but that Miss Audrey's far too up-spoken for her age. She has been spoilt by her mother very likely the only girl." "Perhaps," said Uncle Geoff.
And in the silence, broken only by the drip of water from the retreating oars, and by the scarcely-noticed ripple of the waves, Audrey voiced exactly what her two companions felt. "Andrius has kept his word and cheated us! We're stranded!" From somewhere out of the darkness came a groan deep and heartfelt, as if in entire agreement with Audrey's declaration.
Some have thought that the ribands still to be bought at the stalls at the annual fair, and known as "S. Audrey's laces," are a reminiscence of this legend, and that they represent the chains from which Brytstan was delivered.
Relighting my candle, which I had extinguished from motives of economy, I caught Audrey's eye and jerked my head towards the ladder. 'You go first, I whispered. The Nugget watched her disappear through the trap-door, then turned to me with an air of resolution. 'If you think you're going to get me up there, you've another guess coming.
Audrey smiled at the simple philosophy of nineteen, smiled and was extremely touched. How brave the child was! Audrey's own courageous heart rather swelled in admiration. But after Delight had gone, she felt depressed again, and very tired. How badly these things were handled! How strange it was that love so often brought suffering! Great loves were almost always great tragedies.
"Lend me that, will you?" said Jane persuasively to the man with the megaphone at the entrance to the enclosure. He was, quite properly, a very loud man, with a loud thick voice, a loud purple face, and a loud grey suit. To Audrey's astonishment, he smiled and winked, and gave up the megaphone at once.
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