"
"I shall make no further reference to it, and you must be fair
enough not to punish me for the acts of others."
"You also despise me in your heart of my course towards Miss Burton
this evening."
"If I despised you would I have sought your society this evening?"
"I do not know. I don't understand you, if you will permit my
bluntness."
"Possibly you don't understand yourself, Miss Mayhew."
"I understand that I have had a miserable day, and I hope I may
never see another like it. Good-night, sir."
Chapter XIII. Nature's Broken Promise.
Van Berg had been left to himself but a little time before Stanton
and Mr. Burleigh came out upon the piazza, and the three gentlemen
sat down for a quiet chat.
"Well," remarked mine host, with a sigh of relief such as a pilot
might heave after taking his ship round a perilous point; "well,
thanks to Miss Burton's good sense, the affair has ended without any
trouble. In a house like this, 'Satan is finding mischief still'
whenever my back is turned, and sometimes he threatens to get up
a row right under my nose, as in this instance. I was a 'blarsted
fool,' as our English friends have it, not to know that Mrs.
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