could be affected by any thing which could happen in this house. Yet when, in answer to my summons, he joined me in the hall, I found it difficult to preserve the air of respectful sympathy I had assumed, so searching was his look, and so direct the question with which he met his brother’s message.
“My mother raves, you say; will you be kind enough to tell me what her words were?”
“Yes,” returned I, scorning to prevaricate in a struggle I at least meant should be an honest one. “She called upon her sons, and said that she would haunt them if ever they divulged what took place between them and Mr. Barrows at the mill.”
“Ah!” he coldly laughed; “she does indeed rave.” And while I admired his self-control, Parajumpers Harraseeket Sverige I could not prevent myself from experiencing an increased dread of this nature that was so ready for all emergencies and so panoplied against all shock.
I might have felt a more vivid apprehension still, had I known what was passing in his mind as we traversed the hall back to Parajumpers Californian Joanna Jakke the sick~chamber. But the instinct which had warned me of so much, did not warn me of that, and it was with no other feeling than one Parajumpers Gobi Herren Schweiz of surprise that I noted the extreme deference with which he opened his mother’s door for me, and waited even in that moment of natural agitation and suspense for me to pass over the threshold before he presumed to enter himself.
Dwight Pollard, however, did not seem to be so blind, for a change passed over his face as he saw us, and he half rose from the crouching position he still held over his mother’s form. He subsided back, however, as I drew to one side and let Guy pass unheeded to the bed, Moncler Downy Trimmed Suomi and it was in quite a Columbus Blue Jackets Paidat natural tone he bade me seat myself in the alcove towards which he pointed, till his mother’s condition required my services.
That there was really nothing to be done for her, I saw myself in the one glimpse I caught of her face as he started up. She was on the verge of death, and her last moments were certainly due to her children. So I passed into the alcove, which was really a small room opening out of the large one, and flinging myself on the lounge I saw there, asked myself whether I ought to shut the door between us, or whether my devotion to Ada’s cause bade me listen to whatever came directly in my way to hear? The fact that I was in a measure prisoned there, there being no other outlet to the room than the one by which I had entered, determined me to ignore for once the natural instincts of my ladyhood; and pale and trembling to a degree I would not have wished seen by either of these two mysterious men, I sat in a Rainbow International Bright Brass Takki Suomi dream of suspense, hearing and not hearing the low hum of their voices as they reasoned with or consoled the mother, now fast drifting away into an Canada Goose Menn Selkirk Parka endless night.
Suddenly — shall I ever forget the thrill it gave me? — her voice rose again in those tones whose force and commanding power I have found it impossible to describe.
“The oath! the oath! Dwight, Guy, by my dying head ——”
“Yes, mother,” I heard one v |
