Ridgway," she added to her
husband's welcome.
"I could not feel quite easy in my mind without hearing from your own lips
that you are none the worse for the adventures you have suffered," their
visitor explained after they had found seats.
"Thanks to you, my wife is quite herself again, Mr. Ridgway," Harley
announced from the davenport. "Thanks also to God, who so mercifully
shelters us beneath the shadow of His wing."
But her caller preferred to force from Aline's own lips this affidavit of
health. Even his audacity could not ignore his host entirely, but it gave
him the least consideration possible. To the question which still rested in
his eyes the girl-wife answered shyly.
"Indeed, I am perfectly well. I have done nothing but sleep to-day and
yesterday. Miss Yesler was very good to me. I do not know how I can repay
the great kindness of so many friends," she said with a swift descent of
fluttering lashes to the soft cheeks upon which a faint color began to
glow.
"Perhaps they find payment for the service in doing it for you," he suggested.
"Yet, I shall take care not to forget it," Harley said pointedly.
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