Part 33 (2/2)
and he tucked her arm within his own ”I will make love to the trees if it pleases you But let us walk about the grounds I a down and leave us again just mortals”
Rosebud felt that it was, pretty--very pretty She was entirely satisfied with herself and her friends Then Adonis--wasn't he splendid? And how courteous--alhts of old
They approached a spot glooentle murmur--voices near what Adonis had called the cedar cave
Involuntarily, at the sound of one voice, Rosebud pressed her coo ho whisper, but it was in tones that indicated a youth pleading
”I have--I have done it,” again cahtened whisper
”I did what you asked me to, and I don't see why you don't take me home”
There was al a fine time?” objected the other ”Why don't you want to stay? No one could have seen you drop it into---”
”Hush!+” cautioned the girl desperately
”Oh, you're just nervous--that's all”
Rosebud felt that she should not hear any more, but she would either have to cross the path near the cave and allow the hidden ones to see her, or she must wait until they had come out, as, if she and her coravel, and it would be heard Adonis seemed to understand the situation, and whispered to his coone in a moment” He drew her farther back into the shadows
”If you don't take irl in the cedar cave, ”I'll ask some one else to I certainly shall not stay until supper and have to unmask I dare not”
”Just as you like,” was the cool response
”And I risked it all for you--spoiledI'll know better next ti to make it up to you,” said her coures eed from amid the trees They crossed the path They were Antonio and the nun
Rosebud drew Adonis farther back fro theaily, as if they had beenwith the rest but Rosebud and Adonis detected the false note in their laughter Adonis pressed the little warm hand on his sleeve
”Do you know them?” he asked
”I--suspect theasped, ”and with good reason I have just found so in my pocket”
”In your pocket?”
”Yes, quite a bulky package I did not notice it until this ot there It's just--there I did not even know there was a pocket in this cloak I wore Whoever put the package there was more clever than I”
”But what is it?”