"
"And Chester--where is he?" demanded Thyra.
Carl and Cynthia looked at each other.
"Well, Thyra," said the latter, "the fact is, he's over there in
our yard this blessed minute. Carl brought him home from the
harbor, but I wouldn't let him come over until we had prepared
you for it. He's waiting for you there."
Thyra made a quick step in the direction of the gate. Then she
turned, with a little of the glow dying out of her face.
"No, there's one has a better right to go to him first. I can
atone to him--thank God, I can atone to him!"
She went into the house and called Damaris. As the girl came
down the stairs Thyra held out her hands with a wonderful light
of joy and renunciation on her face.
"Damaris," she said, "Chester has come back to us--the sea has
given him back to us. He is over at Carl White's house. Go to
him, my daughter, and bring him to me!"
XI. THE EDUCATION OF BETTY
When Sara Currie married Jack Churchill I was broken-hearted...or
believed myself to be so, which, in a boy of twenty-two, amounts
to pretty much the same thing. Not that I took the world into my
confidence; that was never the Douglas way, and I held myself in
honor bound to live up to the family traditions. I thought,
then, that nobody but Sara knew; but I dare say, now, that Jack
knew it also, for I don't think Sara could have helped telling
him. If he did know, however, he did not let me see that he did,
and never insulted me by any implied sympathy; on the contrary,
he asked me to be his best man.
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