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Anita rose slowly, her eyes fixed upon the face of the minister, and with her hands resting upon the chair-back, as if to steady herself, she asked quietly: "Why should I not? What is there which I, his daughter, should not know? Dr. Franklin, there is something behind all this which you are trying to conceal from me. I knew my father to be a multi-millionaire.
'He is the last man in the world for a guest in this cot. "'No, he is not, answered Anita. 'He would like it very much indeed. He would be perfectly willing and glad to do anything you do, and to live in any way you live. Besides, he told me, not very long ago, that he often thought of the joys of an humble life, without care, without anxiety, enough, no more, and a peaceful mind.
She wondered if the tall one had helped himself to a few of her beloved chiles. Presently Chico Miguel appeared with the pony. Sundown mounted, hesitated, and then nodded farewell to the Señora and the almost tearful Anita who stood in the doorway. Things were not as Sundown would have had them.
Broussard called punctually at the Colonel's quarters for Anita, on the red December afternoons, when the air was like champagne and Broussard felt as if his veins ran wine instead of blood. The After-Clap, under Kettle's secret instructions, became valuable ally of Broussard's. Kettle managed that the baby's afternoon ride in his wicker carriage should coincide with Broussard's arrival.
Accordingly he was laid on the grass by the roadside, his horse tethered near by, and then, accompanied by Alice, Justin McKenzie set out to Deadwood. We see fit to change the scene once more back to the pocket gulch the home of the sweet, sad-faced Anita.
"You did perfectly right and are deserving of no censure, whatever." After a few moments of desultory conversation, Redburn took the "General" to one side, and spoke on the subject of Fearless Frank and Anita Harris of his action in the matter, and so forth.
Her father was so enraged that he picked up a gun lying near at hand, and gave me such a terrific blow on the head that I was knocked senseless. I remember nothing of it, but mistaking Anita for you was, undoubtedly, my first approach to my former consciousness.
"It was at first. I never dreamed of any thing else. I swear that, Anita. But lately, in the last month or two, she I suppose I should have seen that she " "That she had fallen in love with you. How old is she?" "Nineteen." A sudden memory came to Anita, of a slim young girl, who had watched her with wide, almost childish eyes.
When we arrived at the gate, which was open and out of sight, I proposed to Anita that she should send the carriage back and walk to the cot. "'Good, said she; 'I do not want to see a carriage for two weeks. "I have not time to speak of Anita's delight at everything she saw. She was amazed that plain people such as I had told her owned the house should have lived in such a simple, natural way.
This subtle persecution of the Colonel went on, with variations, for three whole days. On the Friday when Kettle's time was up he was released and his return was hailed with open delight by his partisans, Mrs. Fortescue, Mrs. McGillicuddy and the After-Clap, and with secret relief by the Colonel, Anita and Sergeant McGillicuddy.
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