It seemed to him the only way to comfort her. She did not
resist him, and they sorrowed together.

Cornelius McVeigh did not hasten away from the scene of his great
sorrow. To tell the truth, he had lost for the time being his craving
for the bustling of the city and the subdued activity of his office.
In the place of the latter came hours of quiet, apathetic reverie while
he lingered beneath the roof-tree of home. He modified his dress and
waylaid sundry travellers who passed the door in lumbering farm wagons.
Ofttimes he clambered aboard and went a-visiting, and in exchange for
his city stories received tales of the Monk Road and his mother that
were as balm to his wounded heart.

Jennie was also loath to leave the peaceful spot. Her grandparent, who
found a new joy in living because of his affection for her, came to the
neighboring hotel and hired a suite of rooms for an indefinite period.
He proved a worthy comrade in idleness for the jaded business man, and
the three of them, Jennie, Cornelius McVeigh and Mr. Hyden, were always
together.

Jennie had been an apt pupil, and the few years of education which her
grandparent had provided for her had transformed her from an
uncultivated country girl into an accomplished young woman. Nor was
she lacking in comeliness. Ofttimes the eyes of Cornelius McVeigh
followed her with a strange light glistening in their depths.

The boy and girl love of years gone by, so prematurely blighted and so
long dormant, was struggling again to the surface, and who knows but
another wedding, the last of so many which have been recorded in the
previous chapters, may yet be an accomplished fact? But that involves
another story, and it has not the presence of Nancy McVeigh.

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