" And
she passed quickly to her room.
Within less than an hour he was asking himself in bitter self-
upbraiding, "What have I gained? What can I do? Prefer charges
against my own cousin which I cannot prove? Impossible!--Oh, I've
been a fool again. I should have kept that knowledge secret till I
could use it for a definite purpose. I'll break her spirit yet."
If he had seen her after she reached her room he might have thought
it broken then. Vague dread of the consequences of an act which,
from his words, she believed he knew far more about than he did,
mingled with her anger and feelings of repugnance. "Oh," she moaned,
"it was just horrible; it was coming straight down from the sublime
to the contemptible. That noble old colonel took me to the very gate
of heaven. Now I'm fairly trembling with passion and fear. Oh, why
will Cousin Mad always stir up the very worst of my feelings! I'd
rather suffer and die as poor Yarry did than marry a man who WILL
think only of his little self at such a time as this!"
CHAPTER XXVII
AUN' JINKEY'S SUPREME TEST
The first long tragic day of hospital experience had so absorbed
Miss Lou as to relegate into the background events which a short
time before had been beyond her wildest dreams.
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