She might as well a' slapped me in the face,
the sarpent!"
And unable, by reason of her indignation, to stand still any longer, she
walked up the road to meet the returning oxcart, whose wheels could be
heard rumbling in the distance.
La Fleur had seen the couple standing together on the little hill, but
she had thought it a pity to disturb their tete-a-tete.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CICELY READS BY MOONLIGHT
Just before Cicely reached the back piazza, La Fleur came out of the
kitchen door with the telegram in her hand.
"Do you know," she said, "if Mr. Haverley has come home, and where I can
find him? Here is a message for him, and I have been looking for him,
high and low."
"A telegram!" exclaimed Cicely. "He is at the barn. I will take it to
him. I can get there sooner than you can, La Fleur," and without further
word, she took the yellow missive and ran with it toward the barn. She
met Ralph half way, and stood by him while he read the message.
"I hope," she cried as she looked into his pale face, "that nothing has
happened to Miriam.
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