“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. ”
With a swift movement she gained the bell and rang it. Capes. “You’ll be there, right?”
She asked, hearing his breathing audibly jump. “You see,” he said, “it is doubtful if we can ever marry. O'Higgins returned to town
and made a night of it, nothing very wild, nothing very desperate. Fortunately, the window was not far from the ground; so opening it gently, he
dropped into a backyard, and from thence got into the street. They were his friends, and they recognized his
unusual earnestness. "Now, then, Saint Giles!" interposed Sheppard, "are we to be kept here all
night?"
"Eh day!" exclaimed Sharples: "wot new-fledged bantam's this?"
"One that wants to go to roost," replied Sheppard.
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