Making her couch upon a heap of hay, she sank at once into a deep
and refreshing slumber. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. Before his departure, he gave his assistant a glove. Whenever Ah Cum (whose normal stride was sufficient
to keep him at the side of her chair) pointed out something of interest, she had to
strain the cords in her neck to focus her glance upon the object. "
"Then, we'll lose no more time," returned Jack. She is a
magician sought by all. The real ‘Alcide’,” she wound up with a faint smile
across the table at him, “is here. And imprinting a kiss upon his mother's cold lips, he left the room. “Really?”
“Would not let it go. Be off!"
"Jack!" exclaimed his unhappy parent. ‘En tout cas, it is
not up at all, but down. It is just the aim I have had in view all the time. ‘You have the means to
take up your rightful place. Meanwhile, the mob outside had prodigiously increased, and had begun to
exhibit some disposition to riot. You must
think of this evening, John, sometimes—as a sort of atonement.
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