She
thought that Captain Courtenay would probably write just such a hand.
Though her cheeks tingled a little at the memory of the words in his
sister's letter, there was no harm in reading a memorandum evidently
intended to mark a passage in the book. The items were sufficiently
striking:--"Meribah--a place of strife; Selah--a repetition, or sort of
musical _da capo_."
This stirred her to seek an explanation. She searched the two pages
which opened at the marker, and, in the seventh verse of the 81st
Psalm, she found the key:
"Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the
secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah.
Selah."
The phrases were strangely appropriate to her present environment.
They were almost prophetic, and there was even a sinister sound in the
concluding instruction to the "chief musician upon Gittith" in this
psalm of Asaph. That was the terrible feature of her vigil. There was
no knowing when or how it would end. She closed the book in a state
more closely approximating to hysterical fright than she had been at
any previous time during that most trying night.
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