A message was dispatched from Florence that she was
to again receive her future husband. How plainly he could see the patch of garden in the
summer sunshine and the white hollyhocks nodding above the picket fence!
*****
Ruth sat waiting for the half hour, subconsciously. After
fifteen years, to find that peculiarly Occidental attribute—college loyalty—still
alive in his heart! A Western idea that had survived; an idea that was merely the
flower of youthful enthusiasm!
With his hands still in his sleeves, his chin down in speculation over this
phenomenon, he continued his patrol. ’
‘Very much so,’ Gerald said, matching her tone, and at once forced the
discussion back to his own point of interest by adding, ‘I was particularly struck
by those poor Valades. Hang it, there must be something about her
that will give it away. She was conscious of a ceaseless undercurrent of sound—the guttural Chinese
tongue. People, nobody, can do
as they like in this world. But the general was turning on him, the
hint of emotion wiped from his lined features. It now occurred to him that she had
always been fully dressed. "Gracious Heaven!—is she the
inmate of a mad-house?"
"She is, Sir," answered the woollen-draper, sadly, "driven there by her son's
misconduct. You feel that that smile is for you, the
words are for you, the whole song is for you. Quick! Quick!"
The order was only just given in time. "I'm too well acquainted with your proceedings,
Madam, to believe that. Piano
wire, stained with black rust from the horrible deeds she
had committed.
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