Part 20 (1/2)
”Hullo, hullo!” he grinned, ”been looking for you”
Mainward muttered some inconsequent reply ”Ru silk hat and mopped his broith an awesome silk handkerchief
”But look here, old feller-about that money?”
”Don't worry, my dear man,” Mainward interposed easily ”I shall pay you now”
”That ain't what I mean,” said the other impetuously; ”a few hundredsum--”
”And you told me you'd see me--”
”I know, I know,” Venn put in hastily; ”but that was before Kaffirs started jurotesque es wide apart, his hat perched on the back of his head, his pluhed outright
”Sixteen thousand?” he asked
”Or twenty,” said the other impressively ”I want to show you--” Soy he went blundering up the green slope, stopping and turning back to indulge in a little dumb show illustrative of his confidence in Mainward and his willingness to oblige
Mainas laughing, a low, gurgling laugh of pure enjoyment Venn, of all people! Venn, with his accursed questions and talk of securities Well! Well!
Then his ain, and his heart beat faster and faster, and a curious weakness came over him--
How splendidly cool she looked
She walked in the clearing, a white, slih the long grass-white, with a green belt all encrusted with gold eold orna from her belt, the lace collar at her throat, the--
She did not hurry to hiradual tenderness-those dear eyes that dropped before his shyly
”Ethel!” he whispered, and dared to take her hand
”Aren't you wonderfully surprised?” she said
”Ethel! Here!”
”I-I had to come”
She would not look at hi voice with a wild hope ”I behaved so badly, dear-so very badly”
She hung her head
”Dear! dear!” he roped toward her like a blind ainst his breast, the perfume of her presence in his brain