CHAPTER XIX
THE ADRIANCES
The weeks ran quietly on, bringing spring as the only visitor to thelittle red house. Masterson had been invited to come, but he neveravailed himself of the invitation. The Adriances did not speak of him,by tacit agreement feigning to forget the only painful evening they hadspent since their marriage.
The event that fell like an exploding shell into the tranquil household,shattering its accustomed life as truly as if by material destruction,came quite without warning. It chose one of the first evenings of April,when a delicate, pastel-tinted sunset was concluding the day asgracefully as the _envoi_ of a poem.
Elsie was making ready for her husband, much as she once had describedto him a wife's employment at this hour, and so all unconsciously hadcleansed the temple of his heart, thrusting down the false idols to makea place for herself. The table stood arrayed, she herself was daintilyfresh in attire and mood; the little house waited, expectant, for theman's return. The soft flattery of love lapped Adriance around wheneverhe crossed this threshold; life had taught him a new luxury in this bareschool-room.
Elsie was singing, as she went about her pleasant tasks with the deftsurety and swiftness so pretty to watch; singing a lilting, inconsequentCreole _chanson_, velvet-smooth as the sprays of gray pussy-willow shepresently began to arrange in a squat, earthen jar. She was happy with adeep, abiding, steadfast content, and a faith that admitted no fear.
She was listening, through all her occupations. The crackle of Anthony'squick, eager step on the old gravel walk would have brought her at onceto the door. But the sound of an automobile halting before the gatepassed unnoticed; many cars travelled this road, day and night. So, asbefore, Masterson came unheralded into his friend's house. Only, thistime he found the door open and entered without knocking. When hisshadow darkened across the room, Elsie turned and saw her visitor.
Rather, her visitors. Masterson carried in the curve of his arm adiminutive figure clad in white corduroy from tasselled cap to smallleggings. The child's dimpled, ruddy-bright cheek was pressed againstthe man's worn and sallow young face, the shining baby-gaze looked outfrom beside the fever-dulled eyes of the other. A chubby arm tightlyembraced Masterson's neck.
"Holly!" Elsie cried, the willow-buds slipping through her fingers."Why--how----? Oh, how he has grown! Holly, baby, don't you rememberElsie? He does, truly does--please let me have him!"
Masterson willingly relinquished his charge, putting Holly into theeager arms held out, and stood watching the ensuing scene of prettynonsense and affection. He did not speak or offer interruption. WhenElsie finally looked toward him again, recovering recollection andcuriosity, baby and woman were equally rose-hued and radiant.
"But--how did it happen?" she wondered. "Did--was the agreement kept,after all? Is Holly to stay with you, now?"
The man met her gaze with a strange blending of defiance and entreaty.Now she perceived his condition of terrible excitement and that hisdumbness had not been the apathy she fancied. He was on the verge of abreakdown, perhaps irreparable to mental health. Her question wasanswered by her own quick perception before he spoke.
"I have stolen him. No! I did _not_ steal him; I took my own. It was inthe park--he was with a nurse, and she struck him. She didn't know me. Ihad stopped to get a sight of him. Well, that is all Lucille will evergive him: nurses! She never wanted him, or had time to trouble abouthim. She doesn't like children. He stumbled, fell down, and the womanslapped him--more than once."
She looked at him with a sense of helpless inability either to aid orcondemn. Every conscious fibre in her championed his cause, except herreason. How could this sick man hope to keep Holly against the world?
"You----?" she temporized.
"I've told you what I did; I took him away from her. 'Tell Mrs.Masterson that Holly has gone with his father,' I said. That was all. Icarried him to my car and drove straight here. You will keep him for me?You and Tony? I have got to go; to get back and make my last fight."
Elsie gently set down the baby. She saw what Masterson in his dazed andselfish absorption overlooked: that she and Anthony were to be drawninto a conflict surely evil for them. Mrs. Masterson must resent this,and call on the law to undo the kidnapping. She herself and Anthonywould be dragged from their happy obscurity, their long honeymoon ended.More menacing still, Anthony's position in his father's factory would bediscovered and exploited by the newspapers, with the probable resultthat Mr. Adriance would end that situation by dismissing the impromptuemployee.
But she never even thought of sending Masterson away. The baby handsthat grasped her dress grasped deeper at her heart. Also, this man inneed was Anthony's friend and one to whom he owed atonement for a wrongcontemplated, if not committed.
"Of course we will keep him," she promised, kindly and naturally. "Butyou must stay, too. You are not well and must rest for a while--it isabsurd to speak of fighting when you can scarcely stand. Sit there, inthat arm-chair. Presently Anthony will come home, then we will havesupper and talk of all this."
The serene good-sense calmed and cooled his fever. Sighing, he relaxedhis tenseness of attitude.
"I must go," he repeated, but without resolution.
For answer she drew forward the chair. He sank into it and lay ratherthan sat among its cushions, passive before her firmness.
Elsie moved about the matter at hand with her unfailing practicality.She took off Holly's wraps and improvised a high-chair by means of adictionary and a pillow. To an accompaniment of gay chatter she madeready her small guest's evening meal, tied a napkin under the fat chinand superintended the business of supping. Hunger and sleep werecontending before the bread and milk and soft-boiled egg were finished.Afterward, Elsie carried a very drowsy little boy into her room and madehim a nest in her antique-shop four-posted bed. Masterson looked on,mutely attentive to every movement of the two as if some dramaticinterest lay in the simple actions. When Elsie returned from thesleeping baby, he abruptly spoke:
"You know, I only mean you to keep him for to-night, not always. I willcome back for him. You know all I planned for him and myself. This hashurried me, but I have money enough. Earned money. Did I tell you Mr.Adriance, Tony's father, has offered me a considerable sum to stop'making a mountebank' of myself at the restaurant? No? He has. I fancyher former husband's occupation grates on Lucille." He laughed, movinghis head on the cushions of the high-backed chair. "Well, I refused."
"Of course!"
"You knew I would? Then you grant me more grace than she did."
"She? You said Mr. Adriance offered----"
He glanced keenly at her face, then turned his own face aside that itmight not guide her groping thought.
"I must go," he said, again. But he did not move, nor did Elsie.
The pause was broken by Anthony's whistle, the signal which alwaysadvised his wife of his return.
But to-night it was not the blithe hail of custom. The clear notes wereshaken, curtly eloquent of some anger or distress. Acutely sensitive toevery change or mood of his, Elsie caught both messages, the intentionaland the one sent unaware. Dropping upon the table a box of matches shehad taken up, she ran to the door.
It opened before she reached it. Anthony, his face dark with repressedanger, his movements stiff with the constraint he forced upon them,appeared outlined against the soft, clear dusk of April twilight. Helooked behind him, and, holding open the door of his house formallyushered in a guest.
"My wife, sir," he briefly introduced to his father the girl who drewback, amazed, before their entrance.
Mr. Adriance showed no less evidence of inward storm than his son. Buthe stopped and saluted his daughter-in-law with precise courtesy.
"Mrs. Adriance," he acknowledged the presentation, his voice bettercontrolled than the younger man's.
"Light the lamp, Elsie," her husband requested, dragging off the clumsychauffeur's gloves he had worn home. "It seems that we are undersuspicion of child-stealing. My father has done us the
honor of lookingus up, to accuse me of conniving at the kidnapping of Mrs. Masterson'sboy. I have not yet gathered exactly what interest I am supposed to havein the lady or her affairs, or whether I am presumed to be engaged in abandit enterprise for ransom. But I understand that there is a detectiveoutside, who probably wishes to search the house."
Elsie made no move to obey the command. In the indeterminate lightMasterson's presence had been unnoticed, shadowed as he was by the deepchair in which he sat. She was not afraid, or bewildered so far as toconceive keeping him concealed, but she was not yet ready to act.
"My son is inexact, as usual," Mr. Adriance gave her space, aiding herunaware by his irritation. "Mr. Masterson is known to have crossed theEdgewater ferry with the child, and we know of no friends he would seekin this place except Tony and you. His brain is hardly strong enough,now, to plan any extended moves. Surely it needs no explanation that wewish to rescue a two-year-old child from the hands of a drug-crazedincompetent?"
Elsie laid her hand over the match-box, wondering that the other two didnot hear, as she did, the very audible breathing of the man in thearm-chair.
"He is hardly that," she deprecated. "But, if you find him, what willyou do?"
"To him? Nothing. We want the child. If he persists in annoying the ladywho was his wife, however, he must be put in a sanitarium."
"Elsie, why do you not say that we know nothing of all this?" Anthonydemanded, harsh in his strong impatience. "Why do you feed suspicion byarguing? I don't say that I would not shelter Holly Masterson, if hewere here--in fact, I should! But I do say that he is not here, sir, andI expect my word to be taken. Elsie----"
His wife put out her hand in a quieting gesture.
"Now I will light the lamp," she stated, in her full, calm voice.
Oddly checked, the two angry men stood watching her. The flame-touchedwick burned slowly, at first, the light rising gradually to its fullpower; the circle of radiance crept out and up, warmed by the crimsonshade through which it passed. It crept like a bright tide, shining onthe figure of the woman who stood behind the table, rising over thenoble swell of her bosom, submerging the curved hollow of her throatwhere a small ebony cross lay against a surface of ivory, flooding atlast her face set in generous resolution and glinting in her gray,serenely fearless eyes. She looked, and was mistress of the place andsituation; perhaps because of all those present she alone was notthinking of herself.
"You see," she broke the pause, "there was much excuse. It is alwayswiser and kinder to listen to the excuse for actions; I think usuallythere is one. Mr. Masterson loves his little son very dearly, and thatthey have been separated is terrible to him. But he was patient, he didnot interfere until to-day; he saw Holly struck and roughly treated bythe nurse. He could not bear that, and just look on. No one could! SoMr. Masterson, obeying his first impulse, snatched up the baby, and hedid bring him here. It was only a little while ago, Anthony; a verylittle while."
Before either Adriance could speak, the third man lifted himself out ofthe shadows into the light. He was laughing slightly, all his reckless,too-feminine beauty somehow restored as he faced them.
"Here is your drug-crazed incompetent, Mr. Adriance," he mocked. "Haveyou succeeded so well in training your own son that you want toundertake bringing up mine?"
The insult changed the atmosphere to that of crude war. Elsie drew back,recognizing this field was not for her. Mr. Adriance considered hisantagonist with a deliberation cold and very dangerous.
"I think a comparison between my son and yourself is hardly one you canafford to challenge," he said bitingly.
"Now, no," Masterson admitted. He laughed again. "But a year ago--whowas the best citizen, then? Fred Masterson, with all his shortcomings,or Tony Adriance, dangling after Masterson's wife? Hold on, Tony! I'mnot saying this for you; you quit the nasty game as soon as you sawwhere it was leading. I'm only explaining to your father, here, that thedifference between you and me is chiefly--our wives. Of course we oughtnot to lean on our women; we ought to be strong and independent. But Iwas not born that way, and neither were you. Lucille wanted me down, andI am down; Mrs. Adriance wanted you up, and you're standing up. Behonest, and out with the truth to yourself, if you never speak it, Tony.As for your father, if our guardians had started us differently, itmight not have been this way with us. I don't know, but that is thechance I am giving Holly. He shall not have to pick up his education onthe road. I have brought him here, and here he stays with Mrs. Adrianceuntil I take him away with me. She has given me her promise."
"You forget that the court has given the child to its mother," Mr.Adriance reminded him, before Anthony could reply. "And let me tell youI have nothing except contempt for a man who foists off hisresponsibilities upon a woman's shoulders."
"Neither have I," retorted Masterson. "Did you imagine I had any vanityleft, or that my self-respect still breathed? You are dull, Mr.Adriance! But all that is aside from the case. Holly stays here, unlessAnthony turns him out, and then he goes with me, not with his mother. Doyou think I fail to understand why she wants him, and you want her tohave him? It is because he is a social vindication; her possession ofhim brands me as the one found lacking in our partnership. Well, he isnot to be so sacrificed."
"May I ask how you intend to enforce this?"
"You may, and I will tell you." He looked return in full measure of theolder man's irony and determination. "I can enforce it because you careabout the public at large, and I do not; because it would make abeautiful sob story: how Holly's reprobate father rescued him fromneglect and ill-treatment, taking him away from a brutal nurse in thePark; and how Mr. Adriance, _the_ Mr. Adriance, pursued and recapturedthe child. The newspapers would be interested in learning that Mr.Adriance had managed the whole Masterson divorce case; with his usualtact and success. They might wonder why he had done it. I have wondered,myself, you know. That is, I might have wondered, if I had not known howmuch you once approved of Mrs. Masterson as a possible daughter-in-law,before Tony disappointed you by marrying to please himself. You have thereputation of never admitting a defeat; and, after all, two divorces areas right as one! I beg your pardon, Mrs. Adriance."
Elsie uttered a faint cry, abruptly confronted with the hideous thingMasterson had shown her husband on the night that had changed Anthonyfrom her playfellow to her defender and fightingman.
"Fred!" Anthony exclaimed indignant rebuke, springing to the girl'sside.
She caught his arm fiercely, as it clasped her. Suddenly she was onewith the men in mood, burning with defiance and alert to make war forher own. And Anthony was her own, as she was his. Pressing close to herhusband she held him. Arrayed together, the three who had youth stoodagainst the man who had everything else.
But Mr. Adriance had reddened through his fine, gray, slightly witheredskin like any schoolboy. His dark eyes lightened and hardened to anunforgiving grimness of wrath that dwarfed the younger men's passion andmade it puerile.
"You will restrain yourself in speaking of the lady who had themisfortune to marry you," he signified, with a clipped precision ofspeech more menacing than any threat. "Since yesterday she has been mywife."
Of all the possibilities, this most obvious one never had occurred toany of the three who heard the announcement. The effect held the groupdumb. All thought had to be readjusted, all recent experience focussedto this new range of vision. In the long pause, Anthony's dog yawnedwith the ridiculous sigh and snap of happy puppyhood; ticking clock andsinging kettle seemed to fill the room with a swell of commonplace,domestic sound derisive of all complicated life. After all, men weresimple, and involved evil usually a chimera. Plots and counterplotsresolved into a most natural happening; thrown into companionship withLucille Masterson by Anthony's flight, Mr. Adriance had fallen in love.Probably at first he had aided her through sympathy, as Anthony himselfhad done. There was no mystery in the rest.
The reckless challenge and false gayety died out of Masterson's face,leaving it dull and bleak as a stage wh
en the play is over and theartificial light and color extinguished. Quite suddenly he lookedhaggard and appallingly ill. Circles darkened beneath his eyes as ifdashed in by the blue crayon of an artist. He was conquered; with hisfancied right to resentment and contempt he also lost all animation. Thefire was quenched, apparently forever.
"I apologize, of course," he said, his lifeless ease a poor effort athis former manner. "Certainly I would have been--well, less frank, if Ihad understood. Pray convey my congratulations to Mrs. Adriance. Nodoubt you will be happy, since you can buy everything she wants. Butneither you nor she can care to keep Holly Masterson in your house. Iwant him. After all, I am his father, you know, and entitled to somedirection of his future. No? Come, I'll bargain with you! Leave himhere, and I will do what I refused to do for money: I will quit publicdancing and drop out of sight."
The unexpected offer allured. The wrath in the eyes of Mr. Adriance didnot lessen, but speculation crept into his regard. His abhorrence ofscandal urged him to grasp at this escape from having his wife's nameconstantly linked with the escapades of her first husband. There couldbe no question of Masterson's genius for spectacular trouble-making.Moreover, Holly would still be with the Adriances, so that dignity wasassured. He did not believe that Masterson really intended to burdenhimself with the child. Lucille Masterson had formed his opinion of theother man; he credited him with no intention good or stable.
"Of course I must consult Mrs. Adriance," he answered stiffly. "But Ihave no doubt that she will meet your wishes in the matter, since Tonyis now the child's step-brother. That is, if my son and his wife arewilling to undertake the charge you thrust upon them?"
He turned toward the two, as he concluded. For the first time, theAdriance senior and junior, really looked at each other as man at man.For "Tony" no longer existed; in his place was someone the elder did notyet know. Indeed, he and Tony had been merely pleasant acquaintances; heand this new man were strangers.
"Why, yes," Anthony replied to the indirect question. He had regainedhis composure as the others had lost theirs. His cool steadiness andpoise contrasted strongly with the strained tension of his guests; hespoke for both himself and Elsie with the assured masterfulness she hadnursed to life in him during these many months. "We will take charge ofHolly until his father claims him, unless it is going to be toodifficult for me to take care of my own family. As you may see, sir, weare not rich."
"Is that my affair?"
"It has not been. But it is going to be."
"As a question of money----"
Anthony checked the sentence with a gesture. Gently freeing himself fromElsie's clasp upon his arm, he drew from a pocket of his rough coat thatnotebook which had absorbed so many of his leisure hours.
"Let us say a question of business," he suggested. "Six months ago Ientered your employ as a chauffeur. You will find my record has no marksagainst it. I did not think at that time of drawing any advantage fromthe fact that the mill belonged to you; I worked exactly as I must havedone for any stranger. I was not late or absent, I accomplished rathermore each day than the average chauffeur in the place. Cook and Ransomecan tell you whether I gave them satisfaction. I only speak of this,sir, because I should like you to understand that I was in earnest. Itwas not until months had passed at this work that I began to think ofchanging my position. One day Ransome fell sick. I asked for his placeto try out a better system of checking the shipping that had occurred tome. I was given this at first tentatively, then permanently. In fact,the system worked so successfully that--Mr. Goodwin came to see me." Hehesitated. "I wish you would ask Mr. Goodwin to tell you himselfsomething of what has happened."
"Very well."
The laconic assent was somehow disconcerting.
"I had to tell him who I was," Anthony resumed, with less certainty, "Ihad meant to find out what your attitude would be, before that happened,but I had no choice. He was good enough to take me into his office andoffer to teach me the management of your factory. Now----"
"Now, since it is a matter of business," said Mr. Adriance, dryly, "whatdo you want?"
"I want a stranger's chance, and your pull," was the prompt return;Anthony's smile flashed across seriousness. "That is, I want yourinfluence to give me Mr. Goodwin's position as manager, and after that Iam willing to stand on the basis of my business value to you. Goodwin isold and anxious to retire. If I hold his place for a year and fail toearn his salary, then discharge me and I'll not complain. I know thisend of your business as you do not, sir. You are brilliant, a genius ofbig affairs; I have discovered in myself a capacity for meticulousattention to detail. Will you take this little book home with you? Itcontains a collection of notes and figures for which you would gladlypay an outsider. Mr. Goodwin and I have found the plant is enormouslywasteful; every department contributes its quota of mismanagement,except the office under his own eye. I want a chance to do this work, tobuy a house I like up on the hill, here, and put my delicate Southernwife in a setting suitable for her. Will you let me earn all this?"
"I am not aware that it has been my custom to interfere with you,"retorted Mr. Adriance. He eyed his son with icy disfavor. "Between youand Mr. Masterson it appears to be established that I am the typicaloppressor of fiction and melodrama. Kindly look at the other side of theshield. Last autumn you chose to marry and leave my house. You did both,without paying me the trifling courtesy of announcing your intentions. Iknew of no quarrel between us. The rudeness appeared to me quite withoutwarrant. Nevertheless, I tied all the loose ends you had left behind.I kept your marriage from furnishing a sensation to the journals. Thelady who is now my wife helped me in convincing our friends that yourwedding was in no way unusual or unexpected, if a little sudden, andthat you had met the young lady from Louisiana at her house. In short, Ismothered curiosity, a task with which you had not concerned yourself.You choose to enter this place as a truck driver. You did not ask ifthat were pleasant to me. It was not, but I made no objection. Oh, yes;of course I have known what you were doing! Why should I not know? Now,you meet me with the air of a man hampered and pursued. Why?"
"I was wrong," admitted Anthony, simply. He had flushed hotly before therebuke, but his eyes met his father's frankly and with a relief thatgladly found himself at fault rather than the other. "I did notunderstand. I am sorry."
They shook hands. A constraint between them was not to be avoided. Themarriage of the older man had thrust them apart. Unforgiveable thingshad been said of Lucille Adriance; things that had the bitingpermanence of truth.
"I will arrange for Goodwin's retirement," Mr. Adriance remarked. "Youwill take his place, and this winter's work may pass as your whim tostudy the business from the bottom. I spent an hour discussing youraffairs with him, on my way here, to-night. I had called on him toascertain your exact address. He has agreed to remain as your adviserand assistant for a month or two, until you have quite found yourself.And of course I will be at your service. That is enough for thisevening; I have already stayed here too long. Come to my officeto-morrow."
When he turned toward the door, Elsie was awaiting him. A moment beforeshe had slipped away from the two men.
"This is the first time you have been in Anthony's house," she said, hersoft speech very winning. "You aren't going without taking ourhospitality?"
She held a little round tray on which stood a cup and plate. The actionwas gracious and graceful, quaintly alien as her own legends. Mr.Adriance gazed at her, then bowed ceremoniously, lifted the coffee anddrank.
"I think I had forgotten to congratulate Tony," he regretted. "Allow meto do so, most warmly."
Anthony closed the door behind his guest; presently the sound of astarting motor ruffled the calm hush of the spring evening.
"I want my supper," Anthony announced, practically. "I shall not haveany more of your cooking, Elsie. What are you going to do with your idletime--learn to play bridge?"
She ran into his arms.
CHAPTER XX
THE CORNERSTONE
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p; When they looked for Fred Masterson, he was not there. Elsie remembered,then, that he had gone into Holly's room while Anthony and his fatherwere intent on each other. On the bed where the baby was asleep theyfound an envelope upon which was scrawled a message.
"I'm off for the present," Anthony read. "I'll drop in to-morrow or nextday, when Holly is awake. Thank Mrs. Adriance for me. I'm going to beold-fashioned, Tony--God bless you both."
"He never will come, I know it!" Elsie exclaimed, her heavy lashes wet."Can't we do something? Can't we go after him?"
"I will go after him," her husband agreed. "But not to-night." Hecrumpled the envelope and flung it aside. "Fred Masterson is not goingunder without a fight. If doctors, sanitariums, his love for Holly andour help can set him on his feet again, he shall be cured and do all hedreams of doing. To-morrow I will find him."
"Not to-night?"
"Not to-night. Elsie, don't you understand? He loved his wife. If I lostyou so--if you married someone else----"
She put her small fingers across his lips, stilling the sacrilege.
"No! Do not let our little house even hear you say it!"
"Nor any house of ours! To-morrow I will buy the house we looked attogether, and you shall have an orgy of shopping to furnish it. Oh, yes,you shall, and I'll help you. Have lots of dark red things and brownleather in that front room where you told me about Alenya of the Sea.And--do nurseries have to be pink?"
"Of course not, foolish one. We might make ours sunshine-color, like thesatiny inside of a buttercup or a drop of honey in a daffodil.Anthony----"
"Yes?"
The rain-gray eyes laughed up at him, demure and daring.
"Please, I want a cloak all gorgeous without and furry within; ashimmery, glittery, useless brocaded cloak like those in the cloak-roomof that restaurant. I--I just want it!"
"How do you know?" he wondered at her. "How do you always know thegracious way to delight me most? What a time we are going to have, girl!I'm going to drag Cook out of his rut and start him up the ladder, forone thing. If he hadn't given me a chance, and then brought Mr. Goodwindown to see how I handled it, who can tell how much I might have missed?I shall bring him here for you to see, before we move, too. You won'tmind?"
"Try it and see."
"And we will spend my first vacation in Louisiana! Can't we take atrunkful of junk to each girl--including your mother? Let's bribe apublisher to bring out the poetic drama, if it's ever finished. Ah, beready to come to Tiffany's next week. I'm going to buy you a ruby as bigas the diamond advertisements on the backs of the magazines."
"Anthony!"
"Two of them!"
"Dear," she hesitated, "are we going to have so much money? I do notquite see----"
Her husband looked at her, and laughed.
"You haven't learned to understand your father-in-law. I have notmastered that study, myself, but I know some branches. He is not ahalf-way man. He will expect Tony and Mrs. Tony to proceed precisely asTony used to do. And we will offend and disgust him with oursmall-mindedness if we do not take this for granted. When I remember thethings I allowed Fred to make me believe of him! Elsie, I always couldhave earned our living somehow; I think the best news to-night was thatmy father is as fine as I grew up to believe him. By George, I nevertold him----"
"What, dear?"
"Don't you know?"
* * * * *
They had almost finished their delayed supper, an hour later, whenAdriance set down his cup with an exclamation and stared across thetable at his wife.
"I have just thought of something! Now I understand what LucilleMasterson wanted of me, that day, in the tea-room. She made me give myword never to tell anyone that she had been willing to marry me. I wasangry enough that she should suppose such a promise necessary. But now Ican see the reason: she feared I might tell my father enough of thataffair to prevent his falling in love with her. You do not know him,Elsie. If he had suspected her attachment to him was greed, and that shehad been willing to marry either Adriance for the Adriance possessions,he would have suffered nothing to bring them together, nothing whatever.I suppose she told him she never thought of me except as a pleasantyoung fool. Think of us!" He pushed back his chair and took an angryturn across the room. "Fred, and I, and my father--all puppets for herto move about!"
THE WINTER WAS HARD AND LONG, BUT NEVER DULL TO THEM]
"Holly has Mrs. Masterson, and I have you," Elsie demurred, her mouthcurling into a smile as her glance followed him. "And I do not believeshe has your father, Anthony; I think he has her. You know--excuse me,dear--both you and Fred Masterson were too young and inexperienced. Andyour father heard, in spite of himself, Mr. Masterson's story, thisevening. I'm going to borrow a sentence from Mike: 'She's got her aboss.' Let the mills grind; we know what grain we put in! Anthony, didyou notice that I gave your father coffee in the Vesuvius cup? If henoticed its five-cent atrocity, he will ostracize me; and you know whobought it."
"It is a good cup!" He dropped into his chair again and leaned acrossthe table to catch her hands in his. "Elsie, we will never sell thishouse, or change anything in it, will we? We can come back to it, often,for just a day. It was the beginning place, however far we go."
"Yes. Oh, yes! Anthony, our hearthstone is our cornerstone; on it we'regoing to build, build splendidly, eternally----"
Her voice faltered before the vision. Silent, the two looked into eachother's eyes, seeing a happiness strongly secured, closing them aroundlike folded wings.
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