Once Upon A Time by Richard Harding Davis
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steam-launch rammed the paint off her dahabiyeh, and a young man flung
himself over the rail and ran toward her, her annoyance passed, and with a sigh she sank into his outstretched, eager arms. Half an hour later Ainsley laughed proudly and happily. "Well!" he exclaimed, "you can never say I kept _you_ waiting. I didn't lose much time, did I? Ten minutes after I got your C.Q.D. signal I was going down the Boston Post Road at seventy miles an hour." "My what?" said the girl. "The sign!" explained Ainsley. "The sign you were to send me to tell me"--he bent over her hands and added gently--"that you cared for me." "Oh, I remember," laughed Polly Kirkland. "I was to send you a sign, wasn't I? You were to 'read it in your heart,'" she quoted. "And I did," returned Ainsley complacently. "There were several false alarms, and I'd almost lost hope, but when the messengers came I knew them." With puzzled eyes the girl frowned and raised her head. "Messengers?" she repeated. "I sent no message. Of course," she went on, "when I said you would 'read it in your heart' I meant that if you _really_ loved me you would not wait for a sign, but you would just _come_!" She sighed proudly and contentedly. "And you came. You understood that, didn't you?" she asked anxiously. |
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