” She controlled a sob. Neither combatant could use his sword; and in strength the fugitive was evidently superior to his antagonist. The image in the glass was not clear, for the light was not bright enough to see properly, but the shadows of her riding habit and the hat with its waving plumes framed a countenance that gazed serenely back at her out of long-lashed blue eyes. His only warning was a gleam of silver in the faint spill of light from the house above. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words that express it—a very great lark indeed. ” “Yes,” she said, and abruptly she liked him enormously. Up to this moment, hopes had been entertained of a respite, strong representations in his favour having been made in the highest quarter; but now that his fate seemed sealed, the curiosity of the sight-seeing public to behold him was redoubled. She doesn't understand; she believes he has taken a sudden dislike to her. Sorrows and danger and disappointment she had known. Then she was out of the door and running, fast. ” “But there is not a shadow of evidence against you,” he objected. He was made welcome as McClintock's agent; but he politely declined all the proffered courtesies. So Ruth took another step toward her destination, which we in our vanity call destiny.
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