, Was it her lips with that
delicious curve to them? or her eyes so sunny and brown (or were they
brown?) with that alluring, bewitching twinkle? or was it both lips and
eyes that gave to the smile with which she welcomed him its subtle power
to make his heart rise and choke him as it never had been known to do in
the most strenuous of his matches? "I'm awfully glad," he heard himself
say, and her voice replying, "Oh, yes! Allan has often and often spoken
of you, Mr. Martin." Mr. Martin immediately became conscious of a
profound and grateful affection to Allan, still struggling, however,
with the problem which had been complicated still further by the charm
of her soft, Highland voice. He was on the point of deciding in favour
of her voice, when on her face he noted a swift change from glad welcome
to suspicion and fear, and then into her sunny eyes a sudden leaping of
fierce wrath, as in those of a lioness defending her young.
"Why do you look so?" she cried in a voice sharp and imperious. "Is it
my brother--? Is anything wrong?"
The shock of the change in eyes and voice brought Martin quite to
himself.
"Wrong? Not a bit," he hastened to say, "but just the finest thing in
the world. It is all here in this letter. Dunn could not come himself,
and there was no one else, and he thought Cameron ought to have it
to-day, so here I am, and here is the letter.
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