Word: vagabonder
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...must take action," the Vagabond reflected, as he sank deep in his comfortable armchair and watched the blazing logs kindled in his fireplace. "We must take action." How often he had sat in that chair, watching the fire and hearing a soothing voice that urged him thus! Always the fire seemed to catch the spirit of the voice, and respond to its glowing tones with ever more brilliance. Like the voice, it would subside and become quiet for a time; and then, once again, it would burst forth, ever agitated, glowing, ardent...
Tonight there was no voice. But the flames, with their rhythmic rise and fall, seemed to be hearing one,--to be responding to every variation of its golden cadence. And the Vagabond, as he studied the rhythm of the flames, seemed to hear it with them, seemed to hear it crying, "We must take action to save the Constitution...
...Vagabond started. He knew he hadn't seen her come in the door. Breezed in? He glanced at the open window with suspicion. A faded drape undulated langurously. Could she--no, girls don't drift through windows, he reminded himself. Not at Harvard...
...remember," the Vagabond broke in, "that was last Spring! Why--why, Spring is here...
...Vagabond smiled his silent approval of her act, and Meade unmourned, he placed his hand in the young girl...