Audrey

sed, and looked with smiling eyes at
this girl of the woods, this forest creature that, springing from the
earth, had set its back against the tree.

"Tarry awhile," he said. "Slip not yet within the bark. Had I known, I
should have brought oblation of milk and honey."

"This is the thicket between Fair View and the glebe lands," said Audrey,
who knew not what bark of tree and milk and honey had to do with the case.
"Over yonder, sir, is the road to the great house. This path ends here;
you must go back to the edge of the wood, then turn to the south"--

"I have not lost my way," answered Haward, still smiling. "It is pleasant
here in the shade, after the warmth of the open. May I not sit down upon
the leaves and talk to you for a while? I came out to find you, you
know."

As he spoke, and without waiting for the permission which he asked, he
crossed the rustling leaves, and threw himself down upon the earth between
two branching roots. Her skirt brushed his knee; with a movement quick and
shy she put more distance between them, then stood and looked at him with
wide, grave eyes. "Why do you say that you came here to find me?" she
asked. "I do not know you."

Haward laughed, nursing his knee and looking about him. "Let that pass for
a moment. You have the prettiest woodland parlor, child! Tell me, do they
treat you well over there?" with a jerk of his thumb toward the glebe
house. "Madam the shrew and his reverence the bully, are they kind to you?
Though they let you go like a beggar maid,"--he glanced kindly enough at
her bare feet and torn gown,--"yet they starve you not, nor beat you, nor
deny you aught in reason?"

Audrey drew herself up. She had a proper pride, and she chose to forget
for this occasion a bruise upon her arm and the thrusting upon her of
Hugon's company. "I do not know who you are, sir, that ask me such
questions," she said sedately. "I have food and shelter
and--and--kindness. And I go barefoot only of week days"--

It was a brave beginning, but of a sud

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