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"I'm going with you," she said in a low voice. "There were two men in the launch." As the Richard cleared the point and plunged into trough of the swell, a thin column of light filtered through the fog astern and traveled slowly over the gray water. Gregory put the wheel over and began to zigzag as he remembered that the Bennington was lying in at the goose-neck.
When Senator Henderson called the interview was pleasant but short. "We'll try you again," said the senator genially. "I'll think it over," replied Warrington. "You'll win next time; you'll be stronger two years hence. You made a great fight. Bennington lost the fight for you. If he hadn't been your friend " "I had rather have John Bennington my friend than be president," laughing.
Her eyes were bright and her cheeks flew red signals of enjoyment. Bennington explained. "I know. Well, it didn't matter, any way. I just captured this box. Climb up. There's room. I've lost the doctor and Mrs. McPherson already." Two mounted men, decorated with huge tin marshals' badges, rode slowly along forcing the crowd back to the right and to the left. The first horse race was on.
But Rosie was dull and slept heavily and these things came to her sluggish brain only in fleeting dreams. Thaine and Leigh did not hurry on their homeward way. And Jo Bennington, wide awake in the guest room of the Aydelot house, noted that the moon was far toward the west when Thaine let himself in at the side door and slipped up stairs unheard by all the household except herself.
He had never in his well-ordered life hit in anger, but behind this blow was desperation, and the weight of a young and active body. The man went down. Bennington seized the lariat with both hands and tried to wrench it over his head.
"Morrissy." "Mr. Morrissy. Mr. Chittenden, are you willing to join the union?" Bennington smiled as he plied this question. "Not I! My word, I'd as lief starve as become a union man, and under such a master. I prize my manhood and independence above all things. I have already refused to join. I never take back what I say." "Neither do I, Mr. Chittenden." Bennington stood up.
"Well, if an Aleut can do anything wrong, that's what he's going to do," answered the dock-master. "We'll have to send a boat over there after those people yet. By-the-way, Captain Barker, of the Bennington, is waiting for you. And he told me to tell you to come aboard in Pete's dory as soon as you struck the town." "But the dory's gone," commented Uncle Dick. "I don't like the look of this."
Then, with a grip at the heart, he owned that the self-confidence was well founded. "All right," he assented meekly. "Good!" she cried, with a gleam of mischief. "Behold me! Old Bill Lawton's gal! If you want to be pards, put her thar!" "And so you are a girl after all, and no sun fairy," smiled Bennington as he "put her thar."
She could hear them from afar. She could see the eyes of Bennington watching this man at her side. She could imagine the ears of Bennington listening for slips in his English. There loomed upon her the round of visits which they would have to make.
Fay laughed outright. "And you expect, with one arm and wounded, to feed four people, keep them in confinement, and at the same time to relocate eighteen claims lying scattered all over the hills! Well, you're optimistic, to say the least." "I'll do the best I can," repeated Bennington doggedly. "And you won't ask help of a friend ready to give it?" "Not as a friend."
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