Coming Through the Rye by Grace Livingston Hill

Author:Grace Livingston Hill [Hill, Grace Livingston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60742-015-6
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

It is a terrible moment when one has to turn away from the deathbed of a loved one. But when the nurse gently drew Romayne from her father’s bedside, though there was a smart of tears in her eyes, and a great sense of sudden overwhelming loss, there was in her heart a joyful triumph.

She had gotten her message across to her father’s poor numbed senses that there was forgiveness for him, and he had been able to grasp the hope held out to him and to give assurance that he did so. What else mattered? That was enough to lift her above the catastrophe of the moment. He was gone from her, but he was gone home! It did not occur to her to think just then of her own desolation. She was rejoicing for her father in that he had found peace.

The nurse looked for her to break down in hysterical weeping, but she gave her a little trembling smile and walked quietly away to her own room, coming out again presently, with tears upon her cheeks, it is true, but with a look of calmness and strength about her that made all those with whom she had to do marvel.

“Of course,” they said with wise looks at one another, “she must know it is better for all concerned that he didn’t get well.”

Still, that didn’t quite seem to explain the look on her face. The word “exalted” described it better than any other. The nurse was trying to find words in which to give her report to Evan Sherwood. But exalted was not a word with which the nurse had familiar acquaintance. “She looks kind of as if somebody had given her a great unexpected gift and she can’t be thankful enough,” was the way she finally put it.

It seemed that there were so many appalling questions to settle all at once, details of death that had never entered her consciousness before, and she all alone to settle them! Why had Lawrence gone out of her life in this way? If he had only remained in jail where she could have consulted him! And yet, he had been so filled with his own troubles that he had not seemed to realize about their father. Some word should be sent him, of course, though naturally after the manner of his departure it would be out of the question to expect him to come, or to hope to consult him about arrangements. She felt so helpless and so young. And then the matter of money suddenly loomed before her as a tremendous question. Things must be done right, of course, and she had no idea how much money she had to depend upon. She knew only that her father had put five hundred dollars in the bank to start an account for her the day she went to the house party. She had not touched it yet. It occurred to her that there must have been expenses, and yet no one had come to her for money.

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