I thought he did not notice my departure , but as I opened the gate he stood up and waved his hand . Three days later I went again to the old garden by the harbour shore . There was a red light on a distant sail . In the far west a sunset city was built around a great deep harbour of twilight . Palaces were there and bannered towers of crimson and gold . The air was full of music ; there was one music of the wind and another of the waves , and still another of the distant bell from the chapel near which Mercedes slept . The garden was full of ripe odours and warm colours . The Lombardies around it were tall and sombre like the priestly forms of some mystic band . Abel was sitting in the hop-vine arbour ; beside him Captain Kidd slept . I thought Abel was asleep , too ; his head leaned against the trellis and his eyes were shut . But when I reached the arbour I saw that he was not asleep . There was a strange , wise little smile on his lips as if he had attained to the ultimate wisdom and were laughing in no unkindly fashion at our old blind suppositions and perplexities . Abel had gone on his Great Adventure . Akin To Love David Hartley had dropped in to pay a neighbourly call on Josephine Elliott . It was well along in the afternoon , and outside , in the clear crispness of a Canadian winter , the long blue shadows from the tall firs behind the house were falling over the snow . It was a frosty day , and all the windows of every room where there was no fire were covered with silver palms . But the big , bright kitchen was warm and cosy , and somehow seemed to David more tempting than ever before , and that is saying a good deal . He had an uneasy feeling that he had stayed long enough and ought to go . Josephine was knitting at a long gray sock with doubly aggressive energy , and that was a sign that she was talked out . As long as Josephine had plenty to say , her plump white fingers , where her mother 's wedding ring was lost in dimples , moved slowly among her needles .
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