And music’s spirit haunts the idle string,
So doth the heart in sadness ever twine,
Some fading wreath that keeps hope lingering.
CHAPTER XVIII.
LAURIER’S ATONEMENT.
When two people are of the same mind that certain subjects are painful, they are not apt to recall them to each other’s memory.
Leon Lyndon, as he chose to call himself, left New York within the week with his strangely recovered daughter, and in new pursuits and pleasures both sought oblivion of the painful past.
Lyndon had become rich while at the gold fields, and he spared no expense on Jessie.
Finding that in her restless mood she enjoyed travel more than anything else, they spent six months wandering over their native land, enjoying its beauties and grandeur, unsurpassed by any other country in the world.
Then they crossed the ocean and resumed their migratory habits.
Another six months were spent in this way, then a weariness fell on both and they longed for rest.