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Parts Manual Model: CAT T200 Forklift Date: 1984 Number of Page: 330 Pages
Part Number: UEG1500S
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"Now," continued Dick, still toying with his wine, "the country I
left a few months ago never allows a man to fall into my unhappy
plight. It puts a man in good health at the beginning, and keeps him
in it to the end, somewhere in the nineties. Why, Maurice, if he went
out there, would find that he has never known what health is! Fanny,
we know, is a hardy plant, and would thrive anywhere; yet she was
made for the life out there, if girl ever was. As for you, mother, it
would clap twenty years on to your dear old life—no, it would make
you twenty years younger. No one who has once lived there will live
anywhere else. Even old Flint here is dying to go back; he confessed
as much last month. Now what I say is this: all good things, etcetera
—England among them. Therefore let us all go out there together,
and live happily ever afterwards! Stop; hear me out, all of you: it's
arranged already—I go out first, to stock the station, and all the rest
of it. The fact is, I booked my passage this morning! Come, you
have had good patience; my speech, like better 'good things,' has
come to an end!"
"If I were you," he said hotly to his brother, "I'd go after her, and
tell her you have taken too much wine, and beg her pardon for
making a fool of yourself!"
Dick darted an angry glance at him, but rose and stalked from the
room. In point of fact, the wine had not had much to do with it—no
more and no less than it has to do with anybody's after-dinner
speech. At the same time, Dick had not been altogether in his right
senses, either then or any time that day. He found his mother
weeping as though her heart would break; whereat his own heart
smote him so that he came to his senses there and then, and knelt
in humility and shame at her feet.
"But are you—are you really going back—back over the seas?"
she sobbed.
"Yes. I can't help it, mother! No one knows how miserable I have
been over here. Forgive me—forgive me—but I can't stay! I can't
indeed! But—but you shall come out too, and the others; and your
life will be happier than it has been for years, once you are used to
it."
"How so? Both Fanny and Maurice, once when I sounded them—"
That was what Dick said upon the instant. Then he stood silent.
And then—Dick sank into a chair, and laid his face upon his hands.
Now Dick had made a great mistake. He had booked his passage
too far in advance. For six weeks he had nothing to think of but his
voyage; nothing to do but get ready. Everything was prearranged;
nothing, in this exceptional case, was left to the last, the very
luggage being sent to the boat before the day of sailing. If Dick had
deliberately set himself to deepen the gloom that shadowed his
departure, he could not have contrived things better. Maurice, for
instance, with great difficulty obtained a holiday from the bank
because it was Dick's last day. He might just as well have stopped in
the City. There was nothing for him to do. The day wore on in dismal
idleness.
About three in the afternoon Dick left the house. He was seen by
the others from the front windows. The sight of him going out
without a look or a word on his last day cut them to the heart,
though Dick had been everything that was kind, and thoughtful, and
affectionate since that evening after his return from Yorkshire.
Besides, the little family was going to be broken up completely
before long: Fanny was to be married in the spring. No wonder they
were sad.
Dick turned to the right, walked towards the river, turned to the
right again, and so along the London road towards the village.
"It is the right thing," he kept assuring himself, and with such
frequency that one might have supposed it was the wrong thing; "it
is the right thing, after all, to go and say good-bye. I should have
done it before, and got it over. I was a fool to think of shirking it
altogether; that would have been behaving like a boor. Well, I'll just
go in naturally, say good-bye all round, stop a few minutes, and then
hurry back home. A month ago I couldn't have trusted myself, but
now——"
It was a joyless smile that ended the unspoken sentence. The last
month had certainly strengthened his self-control; it had also
hardened and lined his face in a way that did not improve his good
looks. Yes, he was pretty safe in trusting himself now.
"I'll row up," said Dick, "and go through it all again. Let it do its
worst, it won't touch me now—therefore nothing will ever touch me
as long as I live. A good test!"
Dick rowed into the little inlet with the white bridge across it,
landed, and nodded, in the spirit, to a hundred spots marked in his
mind by the associations of last June; those of an older day were not
thought of. Here was the place where Alice's boat had been when he
had found her reading a magazine—and interrupted her reading—on
the day after his return. There were the seven poplars, in whose
shadows he had found Miles on the night of the ball, when the
miscreant Pound came inquiring for him. There was the window
through which he, Dick, had leapt after that final scene—final in its
results—with Alice in the empty ballroom. A full minute's
contemplation and elaborate, cold-blooded recollection failed to
awake one pang—it may be that, to a certain quality of pain, Dick's
sense had long been deadened. Then he walked meditatively to the
front of the house, and rang the bell—a thing he was not sure that
he had ever done before at this house.
Colonel Bristo was out, but Mrs. Parish was in. Dick would see
Mrs. Parish; he would be as civil to his old enemy as to the rest of
them; why not?
"Colonel Bristo is out," said Mrs. Parish, with a vague feeling that
made matters worse. "You will wait and see him, of course? I am
sure he will not be long; and then, you know, you must say good-
bye to Alice—she will be shocked when you tell her."
"Better; but not well enough to stand a long journey, or else her
father would have taken her to the south of France before this.
Come and see her. She will be so pleased—but so grieved when she
hears you are going out again. I am sure she has no idea of such a
thing. And to-morrow, too!"
Dick followed Mrs. Parish from the room, wishing in his heart that
convalescence was a shorter business, or else that Alice might have
the advantages of climate that in a few days, and for evermore,
would be his; also speculating as to whether he would find her much
changed, but wishing and wondering without the slightest ruffling
emotion. He had some time ago pronounced himself a cure.
Therefore, of course, he was cured.
Dick stood humbly and gravely by the door; a thrill of sorrow shot
through him on seeing her lying there like that; the sensation was
only natural.
"Here is Mr. Richard come to—to—to ask you how you are,"
stammered poor Mrs. Parish.
Alice looked up sharply. Mr. Richard crossed the room and held
out his hand with a smile.
"I hope from my heart that you are better—that you will very
soon be quite better."
Her voice was weak, and the hand she held out to him seemed so
thin and wasted that he took it as one would handle a piece of
dainty, delicate porcelain. Her hair, too, was cut short like a boy's.
This was as much as he noticed at the moment. The firelight played
so persistently upon her face that, for aught he could tell, she might
be either pale as death or bathed in blushes. For the latter, however,
he was not in the least on the look-out.
"Won't you sit down?" said Alice. "Papa will come in presently,
and he will be so pleased to see you; and you will take tea with us.
Have you been away?"
"So the brother," Dick thought to himself, "is taking the sister back
to her own people, to be welcomed and forgiven, and to lead a
better kind of life. Poor thing! poor thing! Perhaps her husband's
death was the best thing that could have befallen her. She will be
able to start afresh. She is a widow now."
"Did you know," said Alice, seeing that he was thinking more than
he said, "that she was a widow?"
It was plain to him that Alice did not know whose widow the poor
woman was. She suspected no sort of bond between the woman
who had nursed her and the man who had made love to her. She did
not know the baseness of that love on his part. This was as it should
be. She must never suspect; she must never, never know.
"Oh!" cried out Alice. "How dreadful it all was! How terrible!"
There was a pause between them. It was Alice who broke it.
"Dick," she said frankly—and honest shame trembled through her
utterance—"I want to ask your pardon for something—no, you shall
not stop me! I want to tell you that I am sorry for having said
something—something that I just dimly remember saying, but
something that I know was monstrous and inexcusable. It was just
before—but I was accountable enough to know better. Ah! I see you
remember; indeed, you could never forget—please—please—try to
forgive!"
His voice dropped, his tone changed: many things came back to
him in a rush.
"There was precious little nobility in it," Dick said grimly. Nor was
there any mock modesty in this. He knew too well that he had done
nothing to be proud of.
"I would rather not tell you what he said; it was nothing to do
with anything of that kind."
Alice darted at him a swift glance, and saw his meaning in a flash.
"Do not get up," said she quietly, for Dick was rising to go. "Since
it is possible that you may guess wrong, I will tell you all. I insist in
telling you all! Here, then, are the facts: Mr. Miles scarcely spoke a
word on the way from church, until suddenly, when we were almost
in sight of home, he—he caught hold of my hand."
Dick knew that already. He was also quite sure that he knew what
was coming. It was no use Alice going on; he could see that she was
nervous and uncomfortable over it; he reproached himself furiously
for making her so; he made a genuine effort to prevail upon her to
say no more. In vain; for now Alice was determined. Seeing that it
was so, he got up from his chair and walked over to the windows,
and watched the brown leaves being whisked about the lawn and
the sky overhead turning a deeper grey.
Alice continued in a voice that was firm for all its faintness:
"I suppose I looked surprised, and taken aback, and indignant,
but he held my hand as if his was a vice, and still we walked on.
Then I looked at him, and he was pale. Then he stared down upon
me, closely and long, as if he meant to read my soul, and a great
shudder seemed to pass through him. He almost flung my hand
away from him, and faced me in the road. We were then on that
little bridge between two hills, not far from the shooting-box: you
will remember it. 'Miss Alice,' he said, 'I am a villain! a scoundrel! an
impostor. I have never been fit to speak to you, and I have dared to
take your hand. But I find I am a shade less black than I thought
myself a minute ago; for what I meant to say to you I would not say
now to save my soul, if I had one! Good-bye; you will see no more
of me. Whatever you may one day hear of me—and you must
believe it all, for it is every word true—remember this: that, bad as I
still am, I am less bad than I was before I knew you, and I have
found it out this instant. Go, leave me, run home; you shall never
see me again. I shall go at once from this place, and I leave England
in two days. Do you hear? Go, leave me alone—go! And God go with
you!' His voice was breaking, his wild looks frightened me, but I
answered him. I had my suspicions, as I told him, but I did not tell
him that you put them into my head. What I did say to him was this:
'Whatever you have done, whatever you may do, you did one thing
once that can never, never grow less in my eyes!' I meant his saving
of my father's life; and with that I ran away from him and never
looked round. That is every word that passed. I can never forget
them. As to what happened afterwards, you know more than I."
Alice's own voice shook; it was hollow, and hoarse, and scarcely
audible at the end. As for Dick, he stood looking out of the window
at the whirling leaves, with not a word to say, until an involuntary
murmur escaped him.
"Poor Miles!"
But Alice! Had she not loved him when he spoke? Had she not
given her heart to him in the beginning? Had she not tacitly
admitted as much in this very room? Then her heart must be his
still; her heart must be his for ever—dead or living, false or true,
villain or hero. Poor Alice! What a terrible thing for a girl to have so
misplaced her love. Dick felt his heart bleeding for her, but what
could he do? He could do nothing but go back to Australia, and pray
that some day she might get over it and be consoled. Now that he
thought of it, he had not told her about Australia. He had tried twice,
and each time been interrupted. It must be done now.
"By-the-bye," he began (it was after a long silence, and the room
was filled with dusk, and the fire burning low), "I didn't tell you,
after all, how it is that I shall be aboard the Rome this time to-
morrow. It is not to see off Compton and his sister, because until you
told me I didn't know they were going. Can't you guess the reason?"
"No!"
What could be the meaning of that quick gasp from the other side
of the room that preceded the faint monosyllable?
"I will tell you: it is because I sail for Australia myself to-morrow!
I am going back to the bush."
There was a slight shiver of the basketwork chair. Then all was
still; and Dick watched evening gather over the flat Ham fields
across the river. The next tones from near the fireplace had a steely
ring about them.
"Why are you going back?"
Another silence. Dick drummed idly upon the pane with his
fingers. There was certainly a degree of regret in Alice's tone—
enough to afford him a vague sense of gratitude to her.
As for Alice, her heart was beating with wild, sickening thuds. She
felt that she was receiving her just deserts. Dick was as cold to her
now as she had been cold to Dick before; only far colder, for she had
but been trying him. Ah! but Nemesis was cruel in her justice! And
she, Alice, so faint, so weary, so heartsick, so loveless, so full of
remorse, so ready to love! And this the last chance of all!
"Is there nothing that could stop you from going now?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing at all?"
"Then what is? It must be that you've made up your mind, and
would not unmake it—no matter who asked you."
Dick was leaning against the window-ledge for support. His brain
was whirling. He could scarcely believe his ears. There was a tearful
tenderness in her voice which he could not, which he dared not
understand.
Dick put this question in a voice that was absolutely stern, though
it quivered with suppressed agitation. There was no answer: sobs
were no answer. He crossed the room unsteadily, fell on his knees at
her side, and took both her hands in his. Then he repeated the same
question—in the same words, in the same tones.
The answer came in a trembling whisper, with a fresh torrent of
tears:
"What if I did?"
No answer.
"Speak! Speak, Alice, for I cannot bear this! The Rome would sail
without me!"
On page 8, the quotation mark was deleted after "on this side of
the road."
On page 158, "not this young follow" was replaced with "not this
young fellow".
On page 184, a quotation mark was added after "and the older
suitor."
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