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"I did, more than once at the top of my voice, but the wind was against me!" "And where did all this happen?" inquired the general, more interested than he had been. "Near a ravine, some distance down the stream. You will not perhaps be able to recognize the place, sir," answered Mabel, "but it is nearly opposite the small house in which Miss Barker resides with her mother."

The former had been surly and non-informative, only to leap eagerly upon the first verbal trend which tended to throw suspicion upon a person whom Carroll knew and whom Carroll knew Barker knew was innocent.

But I was bound to carry it through. The same with the actresses. I'm afraid I gave myself away, for I couldn't take their little fal-lals, but I had to keep up a show. Then came my man himself. There was no bluff about that. I was out to skin him, and I did. Now, Barker, what do you think of it all?

Did not the very fact that he was her enemy and that she despised him make it impossible for her to take advantage of an old man's whim so as to rob him? She would have no lawsuit; he might keep the fifty thousand dollars, and she would go her way as though Mr. Homer Ramsay and Mr. Horace Barker had never existed. Mr. Ramsay had left her his money on the assumption that she would be able to marry.

"You remember, we talked about him once. I do not like Mr. Barker very much." "Oh, he is no end of a good fellow in his way," said her brother. "Have you a any reason for not liking him, Vick?" "I think he is spiteful. He says such horrid things." "Does he? What about?" said the Duke indifferently, as he tore a bit of charred paper from the end of his cigarette, which had burned badly.

"What is this?" she said, haughtily; "I gave no orders for the admission of strangers here." Before Ralph could speak, Agnes Barker came forward, and stood for a moment looking steadily in the woman's face, thus concentrating her entire attention on herself.

Demorest turned away with his last pang of bitterness. It needed only this confirmation of all that Stacy had hinted, of what he himself had seen in his brief interview with Mrs. Barker since his return, to shake his last remaining faith. "We'll all go together, then," he said, with a laugh, "as in the old times, and perhaps it's as well that we have no woman in our confidence."

When it had gone about a fifth of a mile from the vessel the kedge was dropped, and a signal was given by hauling on the rope. "Clap on, men!" cried Captain Barker. "Get a good purchase, and none of your singsong; avast all jabber." The crew manned the windlass and began with a will to haul on the cable in dead silence. The vessel was slowly warped ahead.

Barker was always so self-contained that he might very well feel more love for her than he showed; and, after all, Sewell rather weakly asked himself, was the love so absolutely necessary? When he repeated this question in his wife's presence, she told him she was astonished at him. "You know that it is vitally necessary! It's all the more necessary, if he's so superior to her, as you say.

"Well, my dear boy, Captain Barker is rather short of apprentices, and he has no objection to taking you in place of one if you will make yourself useful. He is a first-rate seaman.