"I leave you to much unhappiness," he said, "and I hate the
thought of it."
"Not quite so much now as before you came," she answered. "I am proud,
you know, that you asked me," and putting her troubles aside, she smiled
at him bravely, as though it was he who needed comforting. "Good-by! Let
me hear of you through your success."
So again they said good-by at the time of sunset. Chayne mounted into
the landau and drove back along the road to Weymouth. "So that's the
end," said Sylvia. She opened the door and passed again into the garden.
Through the window of the library she saw her father and Walter Hine,
watching, it seemed, for her appearance. It was borne in upon her
suddenly that she could not meet them or speak with them, and she ran
very quickly round the house to the front door, and escaped unaccosted
to her room.
In the library Hine turned to Garratt Skinner with one of his rare
flashes of shrewdness.
"She didn't want to meet us," he said, jealously. "Do you think she
cares for him?"
"I think," replied Garratt Skinner with a smile, "that Captain Chayne
will not trouble us with his company again."
CHAPTER XIV
AN OLD PASSION BETRAYS A NEW SECRET
Garratt Skinner, however, was wrong. He was not aware of the great
revolution which had taken place in Chayne; and he misjudged his
tenacity.
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