"
"Nothing that you may have done troubles me in the least," she
assured him. "I do wish that you could put it all out of your
mind and let me help you to make a fresh start."
"I may put the thing itself out of my mind," he answered sadly,
"but the consequences remain."
"There is a consequence which threatens?" she asked.
He was silent for a moment. When he spoke again, he had
recovered all his courage.
"There is the coin in the air of which I spoke," he replied.
"Let us forget it for a moment. Of the minor things I will
make you my judge. Ledsam and Margaret are coming to my party
to-morrow night. You, too, shall be my guest. Such secrets as
lie on the other side of that wall shall be yours. After that,
if I survive your judgment of them, and if the coin which I have
thrown into the air comes, down to the tune I call--after that--I
will remind you of something which happened last night--of
something which, if I live for many years, I shall never forget."
She leaned towards him. Her eyes were heavy with longing. Her
arms, sweet and white in the dusky twilight, stole hesitatingly
out.
"Last night was so long ago. Won't you take a later memory?"
Once again she lay in his arms, still and content.
As they crossed the lawn, an hour or so later, they were
confronted by Hedges--who hastened, in fact, to meet them.
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