Mavis of Green Hill Part 46
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Bill!
His arms about me, his bare hands crus.h.i.+ng out the flames, his agonized voice in my ears--
"Mavis! My darling!--"
I was safe. I tried to put my arms around his neck, but they fell weakly to my side. He took my hands in his and clasped them where they belonged. I was lifted, borne swiftly through the night.
Crimson flame and smoke--a roaring--a voice pleading with me to raise my head, to answer, only to speak--.
Darkness....
CHAPTER XX
Once, in the night, I awoke--fully. Before that, there had been periods of half-stupor, and then, a deep, restful sleep. But just for a minute, I was wide-awake, abnormally conscious.
"Bill?"
He was sitting beside the bed. The light was very dim. His hand was on my bandaged hand which was lying over the sheet.
"Dearest?"
"You're all right?"
"I'm well," he said, "and you will be much better in the morning.
Close the dear eyes now, and sleep."
"You won't go away?"
"Never. Go to sleep, Mavis."
In the morning he was still there, sleeping, wrapped in his funny, fuzzy bathrobe, in a big chair close to the bed. His hand was still on mine.
I looked for a long minute at his tired face. One eyebrow was burned almost all off. There were marks of burns on his face. And he was smiling in his sleep.
I felt so rested, so very well, except for a languor and a weakness.
My hands pained me. Both, I was amused to discover, were bandaged.
There was a little burn on my arm.
Through water and fire--
"Good morning!" said Bill, smiling at me.
I closed my eyes against the look in his. It was beautiful to have him look at me so, but I could not bear it.
"G-Good morning," said I, and felt the hot color flood my face. From the tips of my toes to the roots of my hair I was blus.h.i.+ng.
It was very early. The sudden tropical dawn was only a few minutes old. There was a riot of bird-song outside the window, and a wonderful, dew-washed breeze blowing through the room.
"Mavis?" said Bill.
He was on his knees beside the bed. I put out one bandaged hand and clumsily touched his hair.
"Do you know what you've done?" he asked.
"Been a fool, as usual," I suggested, looking ruefully at the bandages.
"Sweet little fool," he said, in that new, deep voice. "Mavis, how could you, you frightened me almost to death--?"
I thought of those leaping flames, the angry, crimson sky, and shuddered.
"I'm sorry," I said meekly.
He gave a little low laugh under his quickened breath.
"You love me!" announced my husband arrogantly, beginning, as usual, at the wrong end.
"Why so I do!" I admitted in a small voice.
His arms went around me, gently, closely, and I shut my eyes under the touch of his lips on their lids. The dawn-birds were singing--in the room: in my heart.
"I love you," said Bill, and kissed my mouth.
I lay quite still then, between tears and laughter.
"It has taken you," I said, "a very long time to find it out!"
"It took me," he contradicted pleasantly, "about three minutes. From the very first--darling."
"Me, too!" said I, in utter astonishment. It was true. From the very first. I had fought a good fight, I thought, as I lay there in my utter content, against this heavenly surrender. I pity men who never know this wonderful release of self.
Followed a half-hour of the most ridiculous cross-examination:
"When did you first--?"
"Do you remember--?"
"How could you say--?"
"Whose girl are you, Mavis? Tell me!"
And all the rest of the eternal litany of lovers.
Sarah, peeped in to see how I was. Silas, I discovered from her beaming countenance, was all right. I had forgotten to ask. It was with a.s.sumed enthusiasm that I heard that a portion of the cane had been saved. It really didn't matter--not to me. Nothing mattered. Only Bill, and my sense of Harbor in the Far Country of my dreams--
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