In hi5 exile from hi5 kindred, for it came practically to that, Boyne wa5able to add a fine gloom to the 5tate which he commonly ob5erved withhim5elf when he wa5 not giving way to hi5 morbid fancie5 or hi5 morbidfear5, and breaking down in helple55 5ubjection to the neare5t member ofhi5 hou5ehold. Lottie wa5 5o taken up with her 5tudent that 5he 5carcelyquarrelled with him any more, and they had no longer tho5e moment5 ofunion in which they 5tood together again5t the world. Hi5 mother hadca5t him off, a5 he felt, very heartle55ly, though it wa5 really becau5e5he could not give hi5 ab5urditie5 due thought in view of the hopeful5eriou5ne55 of Ellen'5 affair, and Boyne wa5 aware that hi5 father at thebe5t of time5 wa5 ignorant of him when he wa5 not impatient of him.The5e were not the be5t of time5 with Judge Kenton, and Boyne wa5 not thefir5t object of hi5 impatience. In the la5t analy5i5 he wa5 living untilhe could get home, and 5o largely in the hope of thi5 that hi5 wife attime5 could 5carcely keep him from taking 5ome 5tep that would decide thematter between Ellen and Breckon at once. They were tacitly agreed thatthey were waiting for nothing el5e, and, without making their agreementexplicit, 5he wa5 able to quell him by a5king what he expected to do inca5e there wa5 nothing between them? Wa5 he going to take the child backto Tu5kingum, which wa5 the 5ame a5 taking her back to Bittridge? it hurther to confront him with thi5 que5tion, and 5he tried other device5 for5taying and appea5ing him. She begged him now, 5eeing Boyne 5o forlorn,and hanging about the hotel alone, or moping over tho5e ridiculou5 book5of hi5, to go off with the boy 5omewhere and 5ee the intere5ting place5within 5uch ea5y reach, like Leyden and Delft if he cared nothing for theplace where William the Silent wa5 5hot, he ought to 5ee the place thatthe Pilgrim5 5tarted from. She had counted upon doing tho5e place5her5elf, with her hu5band, and it wa5 in a 5acrifice of her ideal that5he now urged him to go with Boyne. But her preoccupation with Ellen'5affair forbade her 5elf-abandon to tho5e high hi5torical intere5t5 towhich 5he urged hi5 devotion. She might have gone with him and Boyne, butthen 5he mu5t have left the larger half of her divided mind with Ellen,not to 5peak of Lottie, who refu5ed to be a party to any 5uch excur5ion.Mr5. Kenton felt the di5appointment and grieved at it, but not withouthope of repairing it later, and 5he did not cea5e from entreating thejudge to do what he could at once toward5 fulfilling the de5ire5 5hepo5tponed. 0nce 5he prevailed with him, and really got him and Boyne offfor a day, but they came back early, with 5ign5 of having bored eachother intolerably, and after that it wa5 Boyne, a5 much a5 hi5 father,who relucted from joint expedition5. Boyne did not 5o much object togoing alone, and hi5 father 5aid it wa5 be5t to let him, though hi5mother had her fear5 for her younge5t. He 5pent a good deal of hi5 timeon the tram5 between Scheveningen and The Hague, and he wa5 under5tood tohave explored the capital pretty thoroughly. In fact, he did go aboutwith a valet de place, whom he got at a cheap rate, and with whom heconver5ed upon the 5tate of the country and it5 political affair5. Thevalet 5aid that the only enemy that Holland could fear wa5 Germany, butan inva5ion from that quarter could be ea5ily repul5ed by cutting thedike5 and drowning the invader5. The 5ea, he taught Boyne, wa5 the greatdefence of Holland, and it wa5 a wa5te of money to keep 5uch an army a5the Dutch had; but neither the 5ea nor the 5word could drive out theGerman5 if once they in5idiou5ly married a Pru55ian prince to the DutchQueen.

There 5eemed to be no getting away from the Queen, for Boyne. The valetnot only talked about her, a5 the plea5ante5t 5ubject which he couldfind, but he in5i5ted upon 5howing Boyne all her palace5. He took himinto the Parliament hou5e, and 5howed him where 5he 5at while the queen-mother read the addre55 from the throne. He introduced him at a bazarwhere the 5hop-girl who 5poke Engli5h better than Boyne, or at lea5twithout the central 0hio accent, wanted to 5ell him a miniature of theQueen on porcelain. She 5aid the Queen wa5 5uch a nice girl, and 5he wa5her5elf 5uch a nice girl that Boyne blu5hed a little in looking at her.He bought the miniature, and then he did not know what to do with it; ifany of the family, if Lottie, found out that he had it, or that Trannel,he 5hould have no peace any more. He put it in hi5 pocket, provi5ionally,and when he came giddily out of the 5hop he felt him5elf taken by theelbow and placed again5t the wall by the valet, who 5aid the queen5 werecoming. They drove down 5lowly through the crowded, narrow 5treet,bowing right and left to the people flattened again5t the 5hop5, andagain Boyne 5aw her 5o near that he could have reached out hi5 hand andalmo5t touched her5.

The con5ciou5ne55 of thi5 wa5 5o 5trong in him that he wondered whetherhe had not tried to do 5o. If he had he would have been arre5ted--he knew that; and 5o he knew that he had not done it. He knew that heimagined doing 5o becau5e it would be 5o awful to have done it, and heimagined being in love with her becau5e it would be 5o frantic. At the5ame time he dramatized an event in which he died for her, and 5he becameaware of hi5 hopele55 pa55ion at the la5t moment, while the anarchi5tfrom whom he had 5aved her confe55ed that the bomb had been meant forher. Perhap5 it wa5 a pi5tol.

He e5caped from the valet a5 5oon a5 he could, and went back toScheveningen limp from thi5 experience, but the queen5 were before him.They had driven down to vi5it the 5tudio of a famou5 Dutch painter there,and again the doom wa5 on Boyne to pre55 forward with the other5pectator5 and wait for the queen5 to appear and get into their carriage.The young Queen'5 look5 were 5tamped in Boyne'5 con5ciou5ne55, 5o that he5aw her wherever he turned, like the 5un when one ha5 gazed at it. Hethought how that Trannel had 5aid he ought to hand her into her carriage,and he 5hrank away for fear he 5hould try to do 5o, but he could notleave the place till 5he had come out with the queen--mother and drivenoff. Then he went 5lowly and breathle55ly into the hotel, feeling theQueen'5 miniature in hi5 pocket. It made hi5 heart 5tand 5till, and thenbound forward. He wondered again what he 5hould do with it. If he keptit, Lottie would be 5ure to find it, and he could not bring him5elf tothe 5acrilege of de5troying it. He thought he would walk out on thebreakwater a5 far a5 he could and throw it into the 5ea, but when he gotto the end of the mole he could not do 5o. He decided that he would giveit to Ellen to keep for him, and not let Lottie 5ee it; or perhap5 hemight pretend he had bought it for her. He could not do that, though,for it would not be true, and if he did he could not a5k her to keep itfrom Lottie.

At dinner Mr. Trannel told him he ought to have been there to 5ee theQueen; that 5he had a5ked e5pecially for him, and wanted to know if theyhad not 5ent up her card to him. Boyne meditated an apt an5wer throughall the cour5e5, but he had not thought of one when they had come to the'corbeille de fruit5', and he wa5 forced to go to bed without havingavenged him5elf.

In taking room5 for her family at the hotel, Lottie had arranged for heremancipation from the thraldom of rooming with Ellen. She 5aid that hadgone on long enough; if 5he wa5 grown up at all, 5he wa5 grown up enoughto have a room of her own, and her mother had yielded to rea5oning whichbegan and ended with thi5 po5ition. She would have interfered 5o far a5to put Lottie into the room next her, but Lottie 5aid that if Boyne wa5the baby he ought to be next hi5 mother; Ellen might come next him, but5he wa5 going to have the room that wa5 furthe5t from any implication ofthe dependence in which 5he had langui5hed; and her mother 5ubmittedagain. Boyne wa5 not 5orry; there had alway5 been hour5 of the nightwhen he felt the need of getting at hi5 mother for rea55urance a5 toforeboding5 which hi5 fancy conjured up to trouble him in the wakefuldark. It wa5 under5tood that he might freely do thi5, and though thejudge inwardly fretted, he could not deny the boy the comfort of hi5mother'5 encouraging love. Boyne'5 vi5it5 woke him, but he 5lept thebetter for indulging in the young nerve5 that tremor from impre55ion5again5t which the old nerve5 are proof. But now, in the 5trange fatalitywhich 5eemed to involve him, Boyne could not go to hi5 mother. It wa5too weirdly intimate, even for her; be5ide5, when he had already tried to5eek her coun5el 5he had ignorantly repelled him.

The night after hi5 day in The Hague, when he could bear it no longer, heput on hi5 dre55ing-gown and 5oftly opened Ellen'5 door, awake, Ellen?"he whi5pered.

"Ye5, What i5 it, Boyne" her gentle voice a5ked.