He was grateful, and yet shuddered at the recollection of the whole
scene. In his dreams he was pursued by the glare of cold glittering
eyes, whether they were in the head of a woman or of a reptile he could
not always tell, the images had so run together. But he could not help
seeing that the eyes of the young girl had been often, very often, turned
upon him when he had been looking away, and fell as his own glance met
them. Helen Darley told him very plainly that this girl was thinking
about him more than about her book. Dick Venner found she was getting
more constant in her attendance at school. He learned, on inquiry, that
there was a new master, a handsome young man. The handsome young man
would not have liked the look that, came over Dick's face when he heard
this fact mentioned.
In short, everything was getting tangled up together, and there would be
no chance of disentangling the threads in this chapter.
CHAPTER XV.
PHYSIOLOGICAL.
If Master Bernard felt a natural gratitude to his young pupil for saving
him from an imminent peril, he was in a state of infinite perplexity to
know why he should have needed such aid.
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