The Grey Lady

path that e

will be dim

was the fir

I also; but we are

the sheet up over t

You have your ways; will y

Fitz simply,

use--he was not of my Church. You will stay here, you and your fr

owing that the Engli

ace, where they walked slowly backwards and forwards, t

d grandfather in the little churchyard in the valley below the Casa d'Erraha. And who are we that we should say that his chance o

n at the Casa d'Erraha until that mariner should arrive; for the doctor was compelled to return t

emselves upon a tragic stage. Fitz deemed it correct that he should avoid Eve as much as possible, and Ev

hither she followed him in innocent anger, without afterthought. She stood before him with her slim white hands clasped tog

of the world and its ways. And Fitz, with the burden of the unique situation suddenly thrust upon him, was, in his chivalrous youthfulness, intensely anxious to avoid giv

od at saying things. I don't know ho

the hills at the other side of the va

," she said softly,

ce, as if she had unintentionally and inn

inued, "it is--

ment towards him. Like the child that she wa

-I know,

ehind the pines, a thousand dreamy tropic scents filling the air. And Eve, half tearful, wholly lovab

he was doing. She merely gave way to the instinct that was growing within her--the instinct that made her turn to

to speak to, no one who understands, but you. There is the padre, of course--and nurse; but they do

all hear from your uncle. He may come by the boat sailing from Barcelona to-morro

not be ready for s

is discipline t

ng maritime eye, recognising them and naming them to h

es, you want my uncle to come the day after to-morrow--you want to go awa

forcing back the tears that gleamed in the moonlight.

ou will only speak. If you

d his first d

d, "about my brother Luke. I

ood. And we may take it that such a lie a

e, and then deliberately wi

er? I have only been thinking of my own troubles ever since--ever since poo

pic night--while he told her the little tragedy of his life. He told the story simply, wi

go and stay with her last summer, but I would not leave him alone, and for some reason he would not accept the invitation for himself. Do you kno

ut in Fitz, "at Mrs.

a quaint little assumption of

not know why. And pitied him

to me," answered Fitz, "b

ppens thus in youth. And the huge clock in the stable yard s

e about--Luke. I feel as if I knew you bette

lked sorrowfully away to the house

t sea, lying still and glass-like in the moonlight. He was looking to the north, and it happened that from that same point of th

and, in addition, steamers make voyages when pressure of traffic may demand. The Bellver w

el of Death, when the servant announced a gentleman to see the se?orita. The se?orita requested that the

son with solid angularity. He had brushed his hair very carefully, applying water to compass a smoothness which had been his life-long and hitherto unattained aim. His shock hair--red turning to grey--stood up four inches from his hone

his bright blue eyes veiled with shynes

in Spanish, quite at a lo

ing of the sea seemed to be wafted f

ntnor?" he asked, r

yes! That

istrusting the parquet-floor, mistru

e captain took after a manfully repressed desire to

uncle?" said Ev

-yes, I'm your uncle. You see--I

is arms apart, looking down at his

with a vague, deep-rooted chivalry, and s

lder the captain, for he s

tz's face. "You are--eh? I didn'

flash, as most things do come to women. She

enry of the Kittiwake. He kindly came to us in our t

you want breakfast?" put in

irl, "of course. S

do for me. A bit of bread and a cup o' tea. I had a bit

he should put his hat--a solid, flat-crowned Brit

se any of its height by the change of position, and with a stiff back he

s journey, avoiding with a tact not always found inside a better coat all mention of the s

as a topic upon which he could converse with any man. General subjects only were discussed, as if by tacit consent. No mention was made of

he room, throwing off his cloak and handing it to the servant. He bowed ceremoniously

ou so soon after the great loss sustained by your excellency, indeed, by the whole island of Majorca. But

inly,

orked by machinery. Sympathy was turned off, and in its place Polite-Attention-to-Business

valier Challoner were perha

thing of my fa

while for a moment a real look of distress flitted over the parchment

awyer of his excellency

glance, and as silence wa

xcellency, made over on 'rotas' the estate and house known as the Val d'Erraha to the gr

sed, arrangi

m 'rotas' is known

se?

oprietor to the lessee who farms or sublets the land, and in lieu of rent hands over

. Then the lawyer's meanin

Casa d'Erraha never b

-with a

ng--nothing at al

standing beside her listening to the conve

cy has private means-

And we must leave the Casa d'Err

oided her dis

ur excellency understands I only do my duty. I am not the

hat I must

face was generously e

minated at the death of th

have turned against her at every point. At this moment Captain

s foreign gentleman and you are talkin' about. But if