“That. Someone hailed off the water. Quite low and faint, like a man going down.”
The clouds were lifting slowly in the east, and the misty, blurred face of the moon began to show in the east, over the brimming water’s rim.
Chapter Nineteen.
Almost by Accident.
Time had crept on since the return of the Jerrolds, and by degrees the pain of the meeting between Myra and Stratton grew less, and the wound made that day began to heal.
“I’m sorry for him,” Guest would say to himself; “but I can’t keep away because he is unhappy.”
So he visited at the admiral’s, where he always found a warm welcome, but made little progress with Edie, who seemed to have grown cold.
Then, too, he met the cousins at Miss Jerrold’s, and it naturally came about that one evening, after a good deal of persuasion, Stratton became his companion.