For convention he did not care a turn of his hand, but he would
do nothing that might shock her self-respect when she came to think of it
later. Sternly he brought himself back to realities.
"Shall I see Mr. Mott for you and send him here? It would be better that he
should make the arrangements than I."
"If you please. I shall not see you again before I go, then?" Her lips
trembled as she asked the question.
"I shall come down to the hotel again and see you before you go. And now
good-by. Be brave, and don't reproach yourself. Remember that he would not
wish it."
The door opened, and Virginia came in, flushed with rapid walking. She had
heard the news on the street and had hurried back to the hotel.
Her eyes asked of Ridgway: "Does she know?" and he answered in the
affirmative. Straight to Aline she went and wrapped her in her arms, the
latent mothering instinct that is in every woman aroused and dormant.
"Oh, my dear, my dear," she cried softly.
Ridgway slipped quietly from the room and left them together.
CHAPTER 24. A GOOD SAMARITAN
Yesler, still moving slowly with a walking stick by reason of his green
wound, left the street-car and made his way up Forest Road to the house
which bore the number 792.
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