Wild Youth, Complete

. The eyes with which she looked upon her new world had in them the glimmer not only of awakened feeling but of awakened understanding. To this time she had endured her aged husband as a slave com

rs as, pale and ill, she gazed at him from the window, a revelation came to her of what the three years of life with Joel Mazarine had really been. From that moment until s

han her aged husband. The Young Doctor knew all too well what the curious, throbbing light in her eyes meant. He knew that the gay and splendid Orlando Guise had made the sun for this prismatic radiance, and that the story of her life, which Louise had wished to tell him yesterday, would never now be told-for she would have no desire to tell it. The old vague misery, the ancient veiled torture, was behind her, and she was presently to suffer a new torture-but

and miracles are not easily understood. We must, therefore, make them understood; a

, but he waved a hand reprovin

hould think that the tonic bringing back the colour to your cheeks comes out of a bottle and no

m what he was saying. But when, an instant afterwards, he took her hand and said good-bye, he knew b

d to see an almost instant change in her condition; but she must have her room to herself for a time, according to his instructions of

ve to come again, as sh

s, I'm coming out to-morrow. She's not fit yet t

n, who still was not so miserly that he did not want his young wife bloo

ver him. The ire of his forefathers waked in him. This outrageous old Caliban, to attempt to sneer at him! For

e looked the old man in the eyes with a steady, steelly glance which had nothing to

om nearly opposite that of Louise, and laid unconscious on a bed, till he himself should come again that very night and extract a bullet from Orlan

ment. The old man had gone to the stables, and as he came out of the room where Orlando was, Louise's door opened softly on him. Dimly, in the half-darkness of

e, young woman. T

she urged. "Say, I r

e replied meaningly. "I want you to und

, who was listening for the heavy footstep of Joel Mazarine outs

d me he was shot saving Mr.

get well, an

a heavy footstep for which he had been

me help nurse hi

tion. "His mother will be here to-morro

d?" she whispe

o to bed," he answered shar

and the Young Doctor was giving directions to Rada and Li Choo for the night-watch in Orlando's room. When Mazarine entered, the Young Doctor gave

eeck. Some one must take care him when fo

n the morning," inter

oice. He knew when to be audacious; or, if he did not know, he had an instinct; and he noticed that the wounded man's eye

-coddled herself-that's what y

rs. Guise to-night," co

to Slow Down Ranch; and he also thought that Orlando Guise showed discretion of manner and look in a