Katrine
main steps. It was the first time the two men had met in daylight, and with the keenest interest Mr. Ravenel
ech. His silver hair, of which he had a great quantity, set strangely around his dark face, falling low over a brow markedly intellectual. But it was the mouth and
h an excellent seat. Upon seeing Mr. Ravenel he dismounted, removed his cap, and a
he began. "But Katrine's been telling me of you, with some worry, I think, i
d with a compr
s here to-day, gone to-morrow. He works like a galley-slave; his word is as good as his bond when given in honor. And 'tis for others he works always. Generous, he gives all, all, all! his work, his brain, the money it earns, everything! His is a great soul, a very great soul. There's not a man in America, barring the Presiden
ed the next statement better
evening when I met you on the hill. The worst of it is," and he spoke the words brightly and bravely, "I've no excuse for it, if there can be found an excusing for such a habit. The thing is growing upon me in this solitude. I try, God alone knows how I try, for Katrine'
necessary to go, Mr. Dulany. The plan
" and spurring his horse he was off at a gallop down the broad road, and Ravenel stood listening to the horse's hoofs clatter over th
stables. One of the head grooms explained a horse's lameness to him as due to a bad place in the road near t
ing again?"
s past," the g
te little figure, sitting on the garden bench, her head in her hands, the picture of despair. About five o'clock Jerry drove to the station for Dr. Johnston, and the same
g?" Frank said, interr
rce," was the
tter this
actin' up," th
s sat together at the dinner-table at Ravenel. Mrs. Ravenel had left them, and the great doctor, in the ad
those given to the alcoholic habit deny everything or secrete everything concerning it when sober. Sometimes they are sentimental over it, given to self-pity, with even a certain desire for dramatic effects in the statements about themselves. Dulany is still, so far as I can j
try of genius,"
y," Dr. Johnston returned, looking a
If there is no organic trouble, of which I have some fear, the case will be simple enough, if there is the desire in him to help me. He was keen to have his daughter
venteenth. He would have her to himself for ten days, ten days of those caressing eyes, of the charming voice and open adulation, and then? He closed his
and Abt and Schubert songs under the pines at twilight, when their hands touched in the exchange of a flower or a book and lingered in the touching; when their eyes had learned the answering of ea
or him to wear, pinning them in his coat with a flushed cheek, or read, with an ecstasy of appreciation, a line from some great writer, marking a meaning
them. By the fence opening into the main road from the lodge he found Katrine, in her high-waisted black frock, looking out between the bars of the great swinging gate, with
writes he may be quite himself again," she said, wit
than I can say, Ka
o good," she rep
d though the words were trivial t
to call on me?"
"The lawyers at Marlto
me nuts, as though they might be an inducement to remain.
e answered, loo
g her chin upon them, as she looked up at him. "If you will stay with me," she hesitated, searching her mind for further inducements, "I'll tell you tales of Kill
ok his
funny little song t
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k asked, no
he spoke she shut her eyes tig
r so plainly as I did," h
, filled by a glance wh
nt on, at length, "I could
ar her at all now-that Du
hesitated, "a
his eyes
nicest I hav
s eyes on the
, almost in a whisper, her ey
ang to the ground a
ty?" sh
g tells me that there's nothing in all the world of
me the veering in her moods for wh
you going?
lephoned for me
waiting
es
eep them waiting becaus
whole world,"
lower-a horrible one, it is true, but the only one I have. Wear it, and g
e," he sai
he mahogany settle together, in a moonless night
in some other place," he ended, inadequately considerin
not an
ne?" he repeat
as no r
y days to live over? Do you wish that t
g her eyes rest in his as she spoke. "I am sorry
cality and earnestness he continued: "Do you re
es
e undeveloped psychic power which, with study,
learly as that, but t
elieve it
know, Mr.
tried to help me, even if
n't know, M
come to the conclusion that Josef is right. You could make me do anything, Katrine. Will you try
ute, not knowing whethe
e said, at lengt