I Hear Adventure Calling by Emilie Loring

Author:Emilie Loring [Loring, Emilie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Lume Books
Published: 2020-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

Nita, Juanita,

Ask thy soul if we should part.

Clear and loud the whistled tune came from the garden. Curious that only a few moments ago he had thought of the song. Would it be answered this time? He retreated into deeper shadow. He would watch the effect on the waiter when he discovered that there was no one at the table.

A girl stopped in the doorway, looked right and left before in a flash of green and blue and silver she darted to the shadows in which he stood. “Oh,” she breathed when she realized she was not alone.

“It’s Myles, Fran. Why the ‘villain still pursued her’ act?” She shook her head and laid her fingers on her lips as a man crossed the terrace to the steps.

“I’m thankful it is you, Myles. He mustn’t see me. You are the only one who can understand. Mr. Sargent won’t let me talk—” Excitement tightened her throat and shut off her whisper.

With an arm across her shoulders he drew her close, so close he could feel the hard beat of her heart. Suppose he pressed his lips to her soft hair on a level with his chin? Now he was crazy. Was she in terror of the man standing at the head of the steps looking up at the star-riddled sky? Was he there in answer to the whistle in the garden? Was he waiting for a repetition of the signal, always supposing that it had been a signal? Now he was going back to the house. Light from the hall shone on his face.

Eckhard. Eckhard. Morrie had said he had been huddled under the shrubs near the Gallery ell during the storm. Had he conked Si Pond? Was he following Fran because he suspected she had seen him?

“What’s it all about?” he asked softly. “Are you afraid of Eckhard?” She shook her head against his shoulder.

“No. No. When he came out I thought he was the person who has been watching me.”

“Let’s go to the garden where we can talk without the possibility of being overheard.”

“No. If I stay here, he can’t see me.”

“Who can’t see you?”

“The waiter who calls himself Barth. I felt his eyes on me every minute I was in the supper room.”

Should he tell her that the man was due to arrive with a tray at any moment? No. Surprised, Barth might reveal his reason for watching her when he saw her here with him.

“You’ve got that waiter wrong, darling. Why should he—”

“You here, Mr. Myles?”

Myles released Fran as the butler peered into the shadow.

“Yes, Caesar. What goes?”

“It’s that waiter Miss Tassie hired to help tonight. He tol’ me he promised to bring a tray here for you, an’ to tell you he was called away sudden like, an’ he was sorry to disappoint you because yo’ had been mighty kind to him.”

“Any idea what took him off so suddenly?”

Caesar stepped nearer and lowered his voice. “I heard some sort of a row at the back door, guess he’d got in trouble.

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