Part 33 (1/2)
”Sister!” snapped the girl, laughing at the youth's discomfiture
”But won't you tell irl in the black robe--the nun? See, there she goes off toward the lake with Antonio”
”How can I tell?” answered Luna ”But if you really want to know, suppose we follow theoes Rosebud and Adonis
My, but they are hitting the trail, if you will pardon the language of an early settler Suppose we go around this way? Then we can have a full view of both pairs in this mystery”
”As you please,” answered Luna with some condescension as they started toward the little lake
”Shall we sit here?”
It was Adonis speaking to Rosebud She sank down upon a rustic bench and instantly noticed a couple turn behind the spruce hedge
They were both in black It was Antonio and the nun
CHAPTER XIX
A STRANGE DISCOVERY
Adonis and Rosebud sat for a while at the side of the hts dimpled in the placid waters, and where now a score offor a ride in the tiny launch which Jack Kied up, in order to add picturesqueness to the fete
”Don't you want to take a sail?” asked the Greek youth of his fair companion
”Oh, no, indeed, thank you I must leave that for the others”
”You must?” and he accented the last word, as if to penetrate her disguise by this act of deference to the ”others”
”Oh, well,” she answered hesitatingly, ”I never did care , to tell the truth--especially in a--tub I prefer a place where there is at least rooested ”I arounds Aren't they splendid? Just see that cave forhted path I declare' this place looks like a real fairyland to-night”
”I airl ”I--er--” She clapped her dainty hand over herher identity
”Like it?” he repeated ”How could I do otherwise? But in all this huarden there is no fairer flower than--Rosebud,” and he brought her hand reverently to his lips
”Oh! You--you hed as she said it ”You know the patronesses have specified--”
”There!” he exclaiht, Rosebud,”