He had been well provided for by her
husband, and General Armour put his hand on hers gently and said:
"Lali, without your permission I have read this other letter."
She did not appear curious. She was thinking still of her father's
letter to her. She nodded abstractedly. "Lali," he continued, "this
says that your father wished that letter to be written to you just as he
said it at the Fort, on the day of the Feast of the Yellow Swan. He
stood up--the factor writes so here--and said that he had been thinking
much for years, and that the time had come when he must speak to his
daughter over the seas--"
General Armour paused. Lali inclined her head, smiled wistfully, and
held up the letter for him to see. The general continued:
"So he spoke as has been written to you, and then they had the Feast of
the Yellow Swan, and that night--" He paused again, but presently, his
voice a little husky, he went on: "That night he set out on a long
journey,"--he lifted the letter and looked at it, then met the serious
eyes of his daughter-in-law," on a long journey to the Hills of the
Mighty Men; and, my dear, he never came back; for, as he said, there was
peace in the White Valley, and he would rest till the world should come
to its Spring again, and the noise of its coming should be in his ears.
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