"But you called out before you saw me," he said bluntly, "as if
something had frightened you. That was WHY I came towards you."
She knew it was the truth; but as she would not confess to her vision,
she fibbed outrageously.
"Frightened," she said, with pale but lofty indignation. "What was there
to frighten me? I'm not a baby, to think I see a bogie in the dark!"
This was said in the faint hope that HE had seen something too. If it
had been Larry or her father who had met her, she would have confessed
everything.
"You had better go in," he said curtly. "I will see you safe inside the
house."
She demurred at this, but as she could not persist in her first bold
intention of examining the locality of the vision without admitting its
existence, she permitted him to walk with her to the house, and then at
once fled to her own room. Larry and her father noticed their entrance
together and their agitated manner, and were uneasy. Yet the colonel's
paternal pride and Larry's lover's respect kept the two men from
communicating their thoughts to each other.
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