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misinformed, a good-looking young man, deeply in love, can be very nice
indeed.
And yet there was no doubt in Carmelita’s mind that it was her plain
duty to refuse Jack. To marry him would mean to utterly give up and throw
aside a plan of life, which, from her earliest childhood, she had never
imagined to be capable of the smallest essential alteration. If a man who
had devoted his whole mind and soul to the business of manufacturing
overshoes were suddenly invited to become a salaried poet on a popular
magazine, he could not regard the proposed change of profession as more
preposterously impossible than the idea of marriage with Jack Hatterly
seemed to Miss Carmelita Billington.
For Miss Billington occupied a peculiar position. She was the Diana of a
small but highly prosperous city in the South-West; a city which her father
had built up in years of enterprising toil. To mention the town of Los Brazos
to any capitalist in the land was to call up the name of Billington, the
brilliant speculator who, ruined on the Boston stock-market, went to Texas
and absolutely created a town which for wealth, beauty and social
distinction had not its equal in the great South-West. It was colonized with
college graduates from New York, Boston and Philadelphia; and, in Los
Brazos, boys who had left cane-rushes and campus choruses scarce ten
years behind them had fortunes in the hundred thousands, and stood high in
public places. As the daughter of the founder of Los Brazos, Miss
Billington’s fortunes were allied, she could not but feel, to the place of her
birth. There must she marry, there must she continue the social leadership
which her mother was only too ready to lay down. The Mayor of the town,
the District Attorney, the Supreme Court Judge and the Bishop were all
among her many suitors; and six months before she had wished, being a
natural-born sport, if she was a girl, that they would only get together and
shake dice to see which of them should have her. But then she hadn’t come
East and met Jack Hatterly.
She thought of the first day she had seen the Atlantic Ocean and Jack,
and she wished now that she had never been seized with the fancy to gaze
on the great water. And yet, what a glorious day that was! How grand
she had thought the ocean! And how grand she had thought Jack! And now
she had given him up forever, that model of manly beauty and audacity;
Jack with his jokes and his deviltries and his exhaustless capacity for ever
new and original larks. Was it absolutely needful? Her poor little soul had to
answer itself that it was. To leave Los Brazos and the great house with the
cool quiet court-yard and the broad verandahs, and to live in crowded, noisy
New York, where she knew not a soul except Jack—to be separated from
those two good fairies who lived only to gratify her slightest wish—to “go
back” on Los Brazos, the pride of the Billingtons—no; it was impossible,
impossible! She must stick to her post and make her choice between the
Mayor and the Judge and the District Attorney and the Bishop. But how
dull and serious and business-like they all seemed to her now that she had
known Jack Hatterly, the first man she had ever met with a well-developed
sense of humor!
What made it hardest for poor Carmelita was, perhaps, that fate had
played her cruel pranks ever since the terrible moment of her act of
renunciation. Thirty-six hours before, at the end of the dance in the great
hotel parlors, Jack had proposed to her. For many days she had known what
was coming, and what her answer must be, and she had given him no
chance to see her alone. But Jack was Jack, and he had made his
opportunity for himself, and had said his say under cover of the confusion
at the end of the dance; and she had promised to give him his answer later,
and she had given it, after a sleepless and tearful night; just a line to say that
it could never, never be, and that he must not ask her again. And it had been
done in such a commonplace, unromantic way that she hated to think of it
—the meagre, insufficient little note handed to her maid to drop in the
common letter-box of the hotel, and to lie there among bills and circulars
and all sorts of silly every-day correspondence, until the hotel-clerk should
take it out and put it in Jack’s box. She had passed through the office a little
later, and her heart had sunk within her as she saw his morning’s mail
waiting for him in its pigeon-hole, and thought what the opening of it would
bring to him.
But this was the least of her woe. Later came the fishing trip on the
crowded cat-boat. She had fondly hoped that he would have the delicacy to
excuse himself from that party of pleasure; but no, he was there, and doing
just as she had asked him to, treating her as if nothing had happened, which
was certainly the
most exasperating thing he could have done. And then, to crown it all, they
had been caught in a storm; and had not only been put in serious danger,
which Carmelita did not mind at all, but had been tossed about until they
were sore, and drenched with water, and driven into the stuffy little hole
that was called a cabin, to choke and swelter and bump about in nauseated
misery for two mortal hours, with the spray driving in through the gaping
hatches; a dozen of them in all, packed together in there in the ill-smelling
darkness. And so it was no wonder that, after a second night of utter misery,
Miss Carmelita Billington felt so low in her nerves that she was quite
unable to withhold her tears as she sat alone and thought of what lay behind
her and before her.
She had been sitting alone a long time when she heard her mother come
up the stairs and enter her own room. Mrs. Billington was as stout as she
was good-natured, and her step was not that of a light-weight. An
irresistible desire came, to the girl to go to her and pour out her grief, with
her head pillowed on that broad and kindly bosom. She started up and
hurried into the little parlor that separated her room from her mother’s. As
she entered the room at one door, Mr. Jack Hatterly entered through the
door opening into the corridor. Then Carmelita lost her breath in
wonderment, anger and dismay, for Mr. Jack Hatterly put his arm around
her waist, kissed her in a somewhat casual manner, and then the door of her
mother’s room opened and her mother appeared; and instead of rebuking
such extraordinary conduct, assisted Mr. Hatterly in gently thrusting her
into the chamber of the elder lady with the kind of caressing but steering
push with which a child is dismissed when grown-ups wish to talk privately.
“Stay in there, my dear, for the present; Mr. Hatterly and I have
something to say to each other. I will call you later.”
And before Carmelita fairly knew what had happened to her she found
herself on the other side of the door, wondering exactly where insanity had
broken out in the Billington family.
It took the astonished Miss Billington a couple of seconds to pull herself
together, and then she seized the handle of the door with the full intention of
walking indignantly into the parlor and demanding an explanation. But she
had hardly got the door open by the merest crack when the discourse of Mr.
John Hatterly paralyzed her as thoroughly as had his previous actions.
“My dear Mrs. Billington,” he was saying, in what Carmelita always
called his “florid” voice, “I thoroughly understand your position, and I
know the nature of the ties that bind Carmelita to her father’s home. Had I
known of them earlier, I might have avoided an association that could only
have one ending for me. But it is not for myself that I speak now. Perhaps I
have been unwise, and even wrong; but what is done is done, and I know
now that she loves me as she could love no other man.”
“Good gracious!” said Carmelita to herself, behind the door; “how does
he know that?”
“Is it not possible, Mr. Hatterly, that there is some misunderstanding?”
asked Mrs. Billington.
“My dear Mrs. Billington,” said Jack, impressively; “there is no possible
misunderstanding. She told me so herself.”
Carmelita opened her eyes and her mouth, and stood as one petrified.
“Well, if I ever—!” was all that she whispered to herself, in the obscurity
of her mother’s room. She had addressed just seven words to Jack Hatterly
on the fishing trip, and five of these were “Apple pie, if you please;” and
the other two, uttered later, were “Not very.”
“But, Mr. Hatterly,” persisted Mrs. Billington, “when did you receive
this assurance of my daughter’s feelings? You tell me that you spoke to her
on this subject only the night before last, and I am sure she has hardly been
out of my sight since.”
“Yesterday,” said Jack, in his calmest and most assured tone; “on the
boat, coming home, during the squall.”
Miss Billington (behind the door, aside).—“The shameless wretch!
Why, he doesn’t seem even to know that he’s lying!”
“But, Mr. Hatterly,” exclaimed Mrs. Billington; “during the squall we
were all in the cabin, and you were outside, steering!”
“Certainly,” said Jack.
“Then—excuse me, Mr. Hatterly—but how could my daughter have
conveyed any such intelligence to you?”
Miss Billington (as before).—“What is the man going to say now? He
must be perfectly crazy!”
Mr. Hatterly was calm and imperturbed.
“My dear Mrs. Billington,” he responded, “you may or may not have
observed a small heart-shaped aperture in each door or hatch of the cabin,
exactly opposite the steersman’s seat. It was through one of these apertures
that your daughter communicated with me. Very appropriate shape, I must
say, although their purpose is simply that of ventilation.”
“It was very little ventilation we had in that awful place, Mr. Hatterly!”
interjected Mrs. Billington, remembering those hours of horror.
“Very little, indeed, my dear Mrs. Billington,” replied Mr. Hatterly, in an
apologetic tone; “and I am afraid your daughter and I, between us, were
responsible for some of your discomfort. She had her hand through the port
ventilator about half the time.”
Miss Billington (as before).—“I wonder the man isn’t struck dead,
sitting there! Of all the wicked, heartless falsehoods I ever heard—!”
“And may I ask, Mr. Hatterly,” inquired Mrs. Billington, “what my
daughter’s hand was doing through the ventilator?”
“Pressing mine, God bless her!” responded Mr. Hatterly, unabashed.
Miss Billington, (as before, but conscious of a sudden, hideous chill).
—“Good heavens! the man can’t be lying; he’s simply mistaken.”
“I see, my dear Mrs. Billington,” said Mr. Hatterly, “that I shall have to
be perfectly frank with you. Such passages are not often repeated,
especially to a parent; but under the circumstances I think you will admit
that I have no other guarantee of my good faith to give you. I have no doubt
that if you were to ask your daughter at this minute about her feelings, she
would think she ought to sacrifice her affection to the duty that she thinks is
laid out for her in a distant life. Did I feel that she could ever have any
happiness in following that path, believe me, I should be the last to try to
win her from it, no matter what might be my own loneliness and misery.
But after what she confided to me in that awful hour of peril, where, in the
presence of imminent death, it was impossible for her to conceal or repress
the deepest feelings of her heart, I should be doing an injustice to her as
well as to myself, and even to you, my dear Mrs. Billington—for I know
how sincerely you wish her happiness—if I were to let any false delicacy
keep me from telling you what she said to me.” Jack Hatterly could talk
when he got going.
Miss Billington, (as before, but hot, not cold).—“Now, I am going to
know which one of those girls was talking to him, if I have to stay here all
day.”
It was with a quavering voice that Mrs. Billington said:
“Under the circumstances, Mr. Hatterly, I think you might tell me all she
said—all—all—”
Here Mrs. Billington drew herself up and spoke with a certain dignity. “I
should explain to you, Mr. Hatterly, that during the return trip I was not
feeling entirely well, myself, and I probably was not as observant as I
should have been under other circumstances.”
Miss Billington, (as before, reflectively).—“Poor Ma! She was so sick
that she went to sleep with her head on my feet. I believe it was that
Peterson girl who was nearest the port ventilator.”
Mr. Hatterly’s tone was effusively grateful. “I knew that I could rely
upon your clear sense, my dear Mrs. Billington,” he said, “as well as upon
your kindness of heart. Very well, then; the first thing I knew as I sat there
alone, steering, almost blinded by the spray, Carmelita slipped her hand
through the ventilator and caught mine in a pressure that went to my heart.”
Miss Billington (as before, but without stopping to reflect).—“If I find
out the girl that did that—”
Mr. Hatterly went on with warm gratitude in his voice: “And let me add,
my dear Mrs. Billington, that every single time I luffed, that dear little hand
came out and touched mine, to inspire me with strength and confidence.”
Miss Billington (as before, with decision).—“I’ll cut her hand off!”
“And in the lulls of the storm,” Mr. Hatterly continued, “she said to me
what nothing but the extremity of the occasion would induce me to repeat,
my dear Mrs. Billington; ‘Jack,’ she said, ‘I am yours, I am all yours, and
yours forever.’ ”
Miss Billington (as before, but more so).—“That wasn’t the Peterson
girl. That was Mamie Jackson, for I have known of her saying it twice
before.”
Mrs. Billington leaned back in her chair, and fanned herself with her
handkerchief.
“Oh, Mr. Hatterly!” she cried.
Mr. Hatterly leaned forward and captured one of Mrs. Billington’s hands,
while she covered her eyes with the other.
“Call me Jack,” he said.
“I—I’m afraid I shall have to,” sobbed Mrs. Billington.
Miss Billington (as before, grimly).—“Mamie Jackson’s mother won’t;
I know that!”
“And then,” Mr. Hatterly continued, “she said to me, ‘Jack, I am glad of
this fate. I can speak now as I never could have spoken before.’ ”
Miss Billington (as before, but highly charged with electricity).
—“Now I want to know what she did say when she spoke.”
Mr. Hatterly’s clear and fluent voice continued to report the interesting
conversation, while Mrs. Billington sobbed softly, and permitted her kind
old hand to be fondled.
“ ‘Jack,’ she said,” Mr. Hatterly went on, “ ‘life might have separated us,
but death unites us.’ ”
Miss Billington (as before, but with clenched hands and set lips).
—“That is neither one of those girls. They haven’t got the sand. Whoever it
is, that settles it.” She flung open the door and swept into the room.
“Jack,” she said, “if I did talk any such ridiculous, absurd, contemptible,
utterly despicable nonsense, I don’t choose to have it repeated. Mama, dear,
you know we can see a great deal of each other if you can only make Papa
come and spend the Summer here by the sea, and we go down to Los
Brazos for part of the Winter.”
*
* *
That evening Miss Carmelita Billington asked her Spanish maid if she
had dropped the letter addressed to Mr. Hatterly in the letter-box. The
Spanish maid went through a pleasing dramatic performance, in which she
first assured her mistress that she had; then became aware of a sudden
doubt; hunted through six or eight pockets which were not in her dress, and
then produced the crumpled envelope unopened. She begged ten thousand
pardons; she cursed herself and the day she was born, and her incapable
memory; and expressed a willingness to drown herself, which might have
been more terrifying had she ever before displayed any willingness to enter
into intimate relations with water.
Miss Billington treated her with unusual indulgence.
“It’s all right, Concha,” she said; “it didn’t matter in the least, only Mr.
Hatterly told me that he had never received it, and so I thought I’d ask you.”
Then, as the girl was leaving the room, Carmelita called her back, moved
by a sudden impulse.
“Oh, Concha!” she said; “you wanted one of those shell breast-pins,
didn’t you Here, take this and buy yourself one!” and she held out a dollar-
bill.
When she reached her own room, Concha put the dollar-bill in a gayly-
painted little box on top of a new five-dollar bill, and hid them both under
her prayer-book.
“Women,” she said, in her simple Spanish way; “women are pigs. The
gentleman, he gives me five dollars, only that I put the letter in my pocket;
the lady, she gets the gentleman, and she gives me one dollar, and I hasten
out of the room that she shall not take it back. Women—women are pigs!”
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