The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Eagle's Shadow, by James Branch Cabell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Eagle's Shadow Author: James Branch Cabell Release Date: January 31, 2004 [EBook #10882] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EAGLE'S SHADOW *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Bradley Norton and PG Distributed Proofreaders image002.jpg [Illustration: "Margaret"] THE EAGLE'S SHADOW By JAMES BRANCH CABELL Illustrated by Will Grafé Decorated by Bianthe Ostortag image004.jpg 1904 Published, October, 1904 image008.jpg To Martha Louise Branch In trust that the enterprise may be judged less by the merits of its factor than by those of its patron image010.jpgCONTENTSimage012.jpg CHAPTER I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXIX XXX XXXI XXXII XXXIII THE CHARACTERS Colonel Thomas Hugonin, formerly in the service of Her Majesty the Empress of India, Margaret Hugonin's father Frederick R Woods, the founder of Selwoode, Margaret's uncle by marriage Billy Woods, his nephew, Margaret's quondam fiancé Hugh Van Orden, a rather young young man, Margaret's adorer Martin Jeal, M.D., of Fairhaven, Margaret's family physician Cock-Eye Flinks, a gentleman of leisure, Margaret's chance acquaintance Petheridge Jukesbury, president of the Society for the Suppression of Nicotine and the Nude, Margaret's almoner in furthering the cause of education and temperance Felix Kennaston, a minor poet, Margaret's almoner in furthering the cause of literature and art Sarah Ellen Haggage, Madame President of the Ladies' League for the Edification of the Impecunious, Margaret's almoner in furthering the cause of charity and philanthropy Kathleen Eppes Saumarez, a lecturer before women's clubs, Margaret's almoner in furthering the cause of theosophy, nature study, and rational dress Adèle Haggage, Mrs Haggage's daughter, Margaret's rival with Hugh Van Orden And Margaret Hugonin The other participants in the story are Wilkins, Célestine, The Spring Moon and The Eagle LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "Margaret" "'Altogether,' says Colonel Hugonin, 'they strike me as being the most ungodly menagerie ever gotten together under one roof since Noah landed on Ararat'" "Then, for no apparent reason, Margaret flushed, and Billy thought it vastly becoming" "Billy Woods" "Billy unfolded it slowly, with a puzzled look growing in his countenance" "'My lady,' he asked, very softly, 'haven't you any good news for me on this wonderful morning?'" "Miss Hugonin pouted 'You needn't, be such a grandfather,' she suggested helpfully." "Regarded them with alert eyes" THE EAGLE'S SHADOW I This is the story of Margaret Hugonin and of the Eagle And with your permission, we will for the present defer all consideration of the bird, and devote our unqualified attention to Margaret I have always esteemed Margaret the obvious, sensible, most appropriate name that can be bestowed upon a girl-child, for it is a name that fits a woman any woman as neatly as her proper size in gloves Yes, the first point I wish to make is that a woman-child, once baptised Margaret, is thereby insured of a suitable name Be she grave or gay in after-life, wanton or pious or sullen, comely or otherwise, there will be no possible chance of incongruity; whether she develop a taste for winter-gardens or the higher mathematics, whether she take to golf or clinging organdies, the event is provided for One has only to consider for a moment, and if among a choice of Madge, Marjorie, Meta, Maggie, Margherita, Peggy, and Gretchen, and countless others if among all these he cannot find a name that suits her to a T why, then, the case is indeed desperate and he may permissibly fall back upon Madam or if the cat jump propitiously, and at his own peril on Darling or Sweetheart The second proof that this name must be the best of all possible names is that Margaret Hugonin bore it And so the murder is out You may suspect what you choose I warn you in advance that I have no part whatever in her story; and if my admiration for her given name appear somewhat excessive, I can only protest that in this dissentient world every one has a right to his own taste I knew Margaret I admired her And if in some unguarded moment I may have carried my admiration to the point of indiscretion, her husband most assuredly knows all about it, by this, and he and I are still the best of friends So you perceive that if I ever did so far forget myself it could scarcely have amounted to a hanging matter I am doubly sure that Margaret Hugonin was beautiful, for the reason that I have never found a woman under forty-five who shared my opinion If you clap a Testament into my hand, I cannot affirm that women are eager to recognise beauty in one another; at the utmost they concede that this or that particular feature is well enough But when a woman is clean-eyed and straight-limbed, and has a cheery heart, she really cannot help being beautiful; and when Nature accords her a sufficiency of dimples and an infectious laugh, I protest she is well-nigh irresistible And all these Margaret Hugonin had And surely that is enough I shall not endeavour, then, to picture her features to you in any nicely picked words Her chief charm was that she was Margaret And besides that, mere carnal vanities are trivial things; a gray eye or so is not in the least to the purpose Yet since it is the immemorial custom of writer-folk to inventory such possessions of their heroines, here you have a catalogue of her personal attractions Launce's method will serve our turn Imprimis, there was not very much of her five feet three, at the most; and hers was the well-groomed modern type that implies a grandfather or two and is in every respect the antithesis of that hulking Venus of the Louvre whom people pretend to admire Item, she had blue eyes; and when she talked with you, her head drooped forward will do And if you can't hook up my dress without pecking and pecking at me like that, I'll probably go stark, staring crazy, Célestine, and then you'll be sorry No, it isn't a bit tight are you perfectly certain there's no powder behind my ears, Célestine? Now, please try to fasten the collar without pulling all my hair down Ye-es, I think that will do, Célestine Well, it's very nice of you to say so, but I don't believe I much fancy myself in yellow, after all." Equipped and armed for conquest, then, she came into the room with a very tolerable affectation of unconcern Altogether, it was a quite effective entrance "I've been for a little drive, Billy," she mendaciously informed him "That's how you happen to have the opportunity of seeing me in all my nice new store-clothes Aren't you pleased, Billy? No, don't you dare get up!" Margaret stood across the room, peeling off her gloves and regarding him on the whole with disapproval "They've been starving you," she pensively reflected "As soon as that Jeal person goes away, I shall have six little beefsteaks cooked and see to it personally that you eat every one of them And I'll cook a cherry pie quick as a cat can wink her eye won't I, Billy? That Jeal person is a decided nuisance," said Miss Hugonin, as she stabbed her hat rather viciously with two hat-pins and then laid it aside on a table Billy Woods was looking up at her forlornly It hurt her to see the love and sorrow in his face But oh, how avidly his soul drank in the modulations of that longed-for voice a voice that was honey and gold and velvet and all that is most sweet and rich and soft in the world "Peggy," said he, plunging at the heart of things, "where's that will?" Miss Hugonin kicked forward a little foot-stool to the other side of the fire, and sat down and complacently smoothed out her skirts "I knew it!" said she "I never saw such a one-idea'd person in my life I knew that would be the very first thing you would ask for, Billy Woods, because you're such an obstinate, stiffnecked donkey Very well!" and Margaret tossed her head "here's Uncle Fred's will, then, and you can do exactly as you like with it, and now I hope you're satisfied!" And Margaret handed him the long envelope which lay in her lap Mr Woods promptly opened it "That," Miss Hugonin commented, "is what I term very unladylike behaviour on your part." "You evidently don't trust me, Billy Woods Very well! I don't care! Read it carefully very carefully, and make quite sure I haven't been dabbling in forgery of late besides, it's so good for your eyes, you know, after being hit over the head," Margaret suggested, cheerfully Billy chuckled "That's true," said he, "but I know Uncle Fred's fist well enough without having to read it all Candidly, Peggy, I had to look at it, because I well, I didn't quite trust you, Peggy And now we're going to burn this interesting paper, you and I." "Wait!" Margaret cried "Ah, wait, just a moment, Billy!" He glanced up at her in surprise, the paper still poised in his hand She sat with head drooped forward, her masculine little chin thrust out eagerly, her candid eyes transparently appraising him "Why are you going to burn it, Billy?" "Why?" Mr Woods, repeated, thoughtfully "Well, for a variety of reasons First is, that Uncle Fred really did leave his money to you, and burning this is the only way of making sure you get it Why, I thought you wanted me to burn it! Last time I saw you " "I was in a temper," said Margaret, haughtily "You ought to have seen that." "Yes, I er noticed it," Mr Woods admitted, with some dryness; "but it wasn't only temper You've grown accustomed to the money You'd miss it now miss the pleasure it gives you, miss the power it gives you You'd never be content to go back to the old life now Why, Peggy, you yourself told me you thought money the greatest thing in the world! It has changed you, Peggy, this ah, well!" said Billy, "we won't talk about that I'm going to burn it because that's the only honourable thing to do Ready, Peggy?" "It may be honourable, but it's extremely silly," Margaret temporised, "and for my part, I'm very, very glad God had run out of a sense of honour when He created the woman." "Phrases don't alter matters Ready, Peggy?" "Ah, no, phrases don't alter matters!" she assented, with a quick lift of speech "You're going to destroy that will, Billy Woods, simply because you think I'm a horrid, mercenary, selfish pig You think I couldn't give up the money you think I couldn't be happy without it Well, you have every right to think so, after the way I've behaved But why not tell me that is the real reason?" Billy raised his hand in protest "I I think you might miss it," he conceded "Yes, I think you would miss it." "Listen!" said Margaret, quickly "The money is yours now by my act You say you care for me If I am the sort of woman you think me I don't say I am, and I don't say I'm not but thinking me that sort of woman, don't you think I'd I'd marry you for the asking if you kept the money? Don't you think you're losing every chance of me by burning that will? Oh, I'm not standing on conventionalities now! Don't you think that, Billy?" She was tempting him to the uttermost; and her heart was sick with fear lest he might yield This was the Eagle's last battle; and recreant Love fought with the Eagle against poor Billy, who had only his honour to help him Margaret's face was pale as she bent toward him, her lips parted a little, her eyes glinting eerily in the firelight The room was dark now save in the small radius of its amber glow; beyond that was darkness where panels and brasses blinked "Yes," said Billy, gravely "forgive me if I'm wrong, dear, but I do think that But you see you don't care for me, Peggy In the summer-house I thought for a moment ah, well, you've shown in a hundred ways that you don't care and I wouldn't have you come to me, not caring So I'm going to burn the paper, dear." Margaret bowed her head Had she ever known happiness before? "It is not very flattering to me," she said, "but it shows that you care a great deal You care enough to let me go Ah yes You may burn it now, Billy." And promptly he tossed it into the flames For a moment it lay unharmed; then the edges caught and crackled and blazed, and their heads drew near together as they watched it burn There (thought Billy) is the end! Ah, ropes, daggers, and poisons! there is the end! Oh, Peggy Peggy, if you could only have loved me! if only this accursed money hadn't spoiled you so utterly! Billy was quite properly miserable over it But he raised his head with a smile "And now," said he and not without a little, little bitterness; "if I have any right to advise you, Peggy, I I think I'd be more careful in the future as to how I used the money You've tried to do good with it, I know But every good cause has its parasites Don't trust entirely to the Haggages and Jukesburys, Peggy, and and don't desert the good ship Philanthropy because there are a few barnacles on it, dear." "You make me awfully tired," Miss Hugonin observed, as she rose to her feet "How do you suppose I'm going to do anything for Philanthropy or any other cause when I haven't a penny in the world? You see, you've just burned the last will Uncle Fred ever made the one that left everything to me The one in your favour was probated or proved or whatever they call it a week ago." I think Billy was surprised She stood over him, sharply outlined against the darkness, clasping her hands tightly just under her chin, ludicrously suggestive of a pre-Raphaelitish saint In the firelight her hair was an aureole; and her gown, yellow with multitudinous tiny arabesques of black velvet, echoed the glow of her hair to a shade The dancing flames made of her a flickering little yellow wraith And oh, the quaint tenderness of her eyes! oh, the hint of faint, nameless perfume she diffused! thus ran the meditations of Billy's dizzied brain "Listen! I told you I burned the other will I started to burn it But I was afraid to, because I didn't know what they could do to me if I did So I put it away in my little handkerchief-box and if you'd had a grain of sense you'd have noticed the orris on it And you made me promise not to take any steps in the matter till you got well I knew you would So I had already sent that second will sent it before I promised you to Hunston Wyke he's my lawyer now, you know and I've heard from him, and he has probated it." Billy was making various irrelevant sounds "And I brought that other will to you, and if you didn't choose to examine it more carefully I'm sure it wasn't my fault I kept my word like a perfect gentleman and took no step whatever in the matter I didn't say a word when before my eyes you stripped me of my entire worldly possessions you know I didn't You burned it up yourself, Billy Woods of your own free will and accord and now Selwoode and all that detestable money belongs to you, and I'm sure I'd like to know what you are going to do about it So there!" Margaret faced him defiantly Billy was in a state of considerable perturbation "Why have you done this?" he asked, slowly But a lucent something half fear, half gladness was wakening in Billy's eyes And her eyes answered him But her tongue was far less veracious "Because you thought I was a pig! Because you couldn't make allowances for a girl who for four years has seen nothing but money and money-worshippers and the power of money! Because I wanted your your respect, Billy And you thought I couldn't give it up! Very well!" Miss Hugonin waved her hand airily toward the hearth "Now I hope you know better Don't you dare get up, Billy Woods!" But I think nothing short of brute force could have kept Mr Woods from her "Peggy," he babbled "ah, forgive me if I'm a presumptuous ass but was it because you knew I couldn't ask you to marry me so long as you had the money?" She dallied with her bliss Margaret was on the other side of the table "Why why, of course it wasn't!" she panted "What nonsense!" "Look at me, Peggy!" "I don't want to! You look like a fright with your head all tied up." "Peggy this exercise is bad for an invalid." "I oh, please sit down! Please, Billy! It is bad for you." "Not until you tell me " "But I don't! Oh, you make me awfully tired." "Peggy, don't you dare stamp your foot at me! Peggy!" "Please sit down! Now well, there's my hand, stupid, if you will be silly Now sit down here so, with your head leaned back on this nice little cushion because it's good for your poor head and I'll sit on this nice little footstool and be quite, quite honest No, you must lean back I don't care if you can't see me, I'd much rather you couldn't Well, the truth is no, you must lean back the truth is I've loved you all my life, Billy Woods, and no, not yet, Billy and if you hadn't been the stupidest beautiful in the universe you'd have seen it long ago You you needn't lean back any longer, Billy Oh, Billy, why didn't you shave?" "She is skinny, isn't she, Billy?" "Now, Peggy, you mustn't abuse Kathleen She's a friend of mine." "Well, I know she's a friend of yours, but that doesn't prevent her being skinny, does it?" "Now, Peggy " "Please, Billy! Please say she's skinny!" "Er well, she's a bit thin, perhaps." "You angel!" "And you're quite sure you've forgiven me for doubting you?" "And you've forgiven me?" "Bless you, Peggy, I never doubted you! I've been too busy loving you." "It seems to me as if it had been always." "Why, didn't we love one another in Carthage, Peggy?" "I think it was in Babylon, Billy." "And will love one another ?" "Forever and ever, dear You've been to seek a wife, Billy boy." "And oh, the dimple in her chin " * * * * * Ah, well! There was a deal of foolish prattle there in the firelight delectable prattle, irresponsible as the chattering of birds after a storm And I fancy that the Eagle's shadow is lifted from Selwoode, now that Love has taken up his abode there THE END End of Project Gutenberg's The Eagle's Shadow, by James Branch Cabell *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EAGLE'S SHADOW *** ***** This file should be named 10882-h.htm or 10882-h.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/8/8/10882/ Produced by Suzanne Shell, Bradley Norton and PG Distributed Proofreaders Updated editions will replace the previous one the old editions will be renamed Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties Special rules, set forth in the General 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'You needn't, be such a grandfather,' she suggested helpfully." "Regarded them with alert eyes" THE EAGLE'S SHADOW I This is the story of Margaret Hugonin and of the Eagle And with your permission, we will for the present defer all consideration of the. .. and come hastily to the conclusion, to the summing-up of the whole matter "Altogether," says Colonel Hugonin, "they strike me as being the most ungodly menagerie ever gotten together under one roof since Noah... created a pronounced furor at their début in the days of crinoline and the Grecian bend; and Margaret Anstruther, as they will tell you, was married to Thomas Hugonin, then a gallant cavalry officer in the service of Her Majesty, the Empress of India