"Are you not Dugald?" he demanded hoarsely.
"No--it's--it's me! I dursn't wait for my dog- cart!"
"Eva!" he murmured. "Oh, Himmel! Vat shall I do?"
Only a screen of glass separated his two rescuers, and the one had but to turn her head and look inside, or the other to study with any attention the roll of hair beneath their driver's cap, in order to lead to most embarrassing consequences. Not that it was his fault he should receive such universal sympathy: but would these charming ladies admit his innocence?
"How thoughtful of Dugald to have this car----" began Eva.
"Hush!" he muttered hoarsely. "Yes, it was thoughtful, but you most not speak too loudly."
"For fear----?" she smiled, and turned her eyes instinctively toward their driver.
"Excuse me," he muttered, sweeping her as gently as possible from her seat and placing her upon the floor.
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and phlox that drew him to the perfumed air of the garden,
of the most unreserved comradeship. Each wished to please
briers—here a porch, there a vault, further on a chimney-piece,
away, at first at some distance. The explosions grew louder,
her arms, and laughed shrilly, insanely. Then she turned
no mention at all of the medal. And each was making a pilgrimage
They have come!... They have come to the rendezvous!...
She chose at random the middle track of the three and passed
had come across his northerly camp and he feared that they
The sight of the clock brought him also to a dead stop.
which swirled fully three feet of water, which, slowly
was known was some ruins six miles further on situated