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"Well, she got lost so very er noiselessly," apologized John, "that it escaped our attention. But she doesn't look as if it had worn on her much," he added, brightening. "It didn't," Phyllis answered with an irrepressible laugh, "it wore on us! I expect Allan's still hunting the grounds over for her he and the gardener. The gardener always uses a wooden rake with a pillow tied to its teeth."
Tuesday morning the family awoke and met at the breakfast table. The air was electric with unrest, and the food almost untouched. It was Mrs. Clayton who broke the long silence that followed the morning's greetings. "I I don't think I 'll do much to get ready for the Bixbys," she began; "I 'm so sure that letter was from them." "You mean that, Julia?" demanded her husband, brightening.
Gradually, now, the flame that had well-nigh gone out, kindled up again, but so slowly, that for many hours the mother and sisters were in doubt whether it were really brightening or not. The fever that had continued for several days, exhausting the energies of the young man's system, had let go its hold, because scarcely enough vital energy remained for it to subsist upon.
We have said that the air lightened after the passage of the first pall of darkness, but it was not the reappearance of the sun that caused the brightening. It was an awful light, which seemed to be born out of the air itself. It had a menacing, coppery hue, continually changing in character.
The rocket swept up in a wide curve and burst into crimson lights. After this there was darkness for a time until an indistinct black object appeared against the brightening sky. Then the launch sank back into the trough, where the gloom was only broken by the glimmer of the phosphorescence that spangled the water.
"Good-night, Lois," he said, kindly, as she lighted his lamp. He put some money on the table. "You must take it," as she looked uneasy. "For Tiger's board, say. I never see him now. A bright new frock, remember." She thanked him, her eyes brightening, looking at her father's patched coat. The old man followed Holmes out. "Master Holmes" "Have done with this," said Holmes, sternly.
He hurried out to the cutter, and sent Speed spinning up the road toward the village. As he faced the brightening horizon it came to him with a leap of his heart that it was New Year's Day! He would barely have time to catch the train! He drove swiftly into his own yard and dashed in at the kitchen door. "Is Dr. Harwood up?" he demanded, coming suddenly upon Mrs.
"Not to meet this man. It's irregular. I know nothing about him. If you had a father or a brother on board. . . ." "Or even a husband!" laughing. "There you are!" resignedly. "You laugh. You women go everywhere, and half the time unprotected." "Never quite unprotected. We never venture beyond the call of gentlemen." "That is true," brightening. "You insist on meeting this chap?"
Yet she could not entirely harden herself as she intended, while combats with Percy cast brightening gleams across her existence. She thought she should again settle into the winter's life of hard work and indifference, which was on the whole most comfortable to her.
You're always the better of a witness. 'That is so, he said, brightening. 'Ach, these are the bad times! in old days there wass nothing to do but watch the doors at the flower-shows and keep the yachts from poaching the sea-trout. But now it is spies, spies, and "Donald, get out of your bed, and go off twenty mile to find a German." I wass wishing the war wass by, and the Germans all dead.
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