He felt his heart beat strangely. He hesitated, recalled
himself with an effort, hurriedly stepped from the porch into the path,
as he heard the carriage door close behind him in the distance, and then
felt the dust from her horse's hoofs rise around him as she drove past
him and away.
CHAPTER III.
Although Brant was convinced as soon as he left the house that he
could not accept anything from the Boompointer influence, and that his
interview with Susy was fruitless, he knew that he must temporize. While
he did not believe that his old playmate would willingly betray him, he
was uneasy when he thought of the vanity and impulsiveness which might
compromise him--or of a possible jealousy that might seek revenge. Yet
he had no reason to believe that Susy's nature was jealous, or that she
was likely to have any cause; but the fact remained that Miss Faulkner's
innocent intrusion upon their tete-a-tete affected him more strongly
than anything else in his interview with Susy. Once out of the
atmosphere of that house, it struck him, too, that Miss Faulkner was
almost as much of an alien in it as himself. He wondered what she
had been doing there. Could it be possible that she was obtaining
information for the South? But he rejected the idea as quickly as it
had occurred to him.
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