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I know Larry would feel just as you do and hate to have him come near me. Larry and I have almost quarreled about it now. He thinks Uncle Phil is all wrong not to forbid my seeing Alan at all. But Uncle Phil is too wise.
Alan struggled out of his chair, and trembled over to where she had them on the table beside her. She caught them up, one in either hand, and held them as high as she could lift them. "If you don't sit down and promise to keep still, I'll smash them both on the hearth. You know I will." Her strange eyes gleamed, and he hesitated; then he went back to his chair.
It was still day indeed, but the place exceeding solitary. If my haunters had let slip that fair occasion I could but judge they aimed at something more than David Balfour. The lives of Alan and James weighed upon my spirit with the weight of two grown bullocks. Catriona was yet in the garden walking by herself. "Catriona," said I, "you see me back again." "With a changed face," said she.
Privately, he thought there was no doubt about the matter, and was delighted with the prospect of so effectually crushing the gossip that still hung about Lettice's name. The memory of Alan Walcott's affairs was strong in the minds of both men as they paused in their conversation, but neither chose to allude to him in words.
"'You have not mistaken me. My name is Lorna Doone. "He looked at me, with gravity, and was inclined to make some claim to closer consideration upon the score of kinship; but I shrunk back, and only said, 'Yes, my name is Lorna Doone. "'Then I am your faithful guardian, Alan Brandir of Loch Awe; called Lord Alan Brandir, son of a worthy peer of Scotland. Now will you confide in me?
"Alan," said I, "hear my way of it. Appin's death for us; we have none too much money, nor yet meal; the longer they seek, the nearer they may guess where we are; it's all a risk; and I give my word to go ahead until we drop." Alan was delighted.
Followed by the Asika and Jeekie, Alan walked up and looked her in the face and to his excited imagination she appeared to grin at him in answer. Then while the priests prostrated themselves, he examined the golden basin or laver, and saw that at the further side of it was a little platform approached by steps.
"Wait, I'll come out;" and opening a door in the rail, he passed around to the girl. "Father's note is paid," he resumed, "but there's fierce trouble over it. Crane left the money, three thousand dollars, with Mortimer, and he stole" the boy's voice lowered to a hoarse whisper "a thousand of it to bet at Gravesend." "That's not true, Alan; God knows it's not true. Mortimer wouldn't steal."
'What makes you ask that? he queried uneasily, and Helen sat straighter in the saddle and looked him full in the face. For now she was positive that Alan had had trouble and that her father knew about it. Longstreet hesitated. He had no desire to recount his experience at Moraga's saloon in Big Run.
Sir Robert Aylward, catching sight of him, came across the hall in his usual, direct fashion, and shook him by the hand. "Glad to see you, Vernon," he said, fixing his piercing eyes upon Alan as though he were trying to read his thoughts. "Pleasant change this from the City and all that eternal business, isn't it?
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