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"I thought Dick's father was still in bed from the effects of that dastardly night's work. Who can that stranger be?" Dismounting, he tied Bonnie Bird to a tree and came forward, but in line with the barn, that he might not be seen. Soon he was within easy hearing distance of all that was being said. "I want to know what brought you out here, Dike Powell?" he heard Mr.
Then the whole party set off on a gallop for the agency, where was to be enacted the last scene in this little drama of the southwest. As Vorlange uttered his dire threat into Dick's ear, the boy turned pale and staggered against the wall of his prison. "Wot's that yer sayin'?" demanded Jack Rasco, who plainly saw the changed look upon his companion's features.
The conductor's hand forthwith dove into Dick's pocket, and drew out a rusty jack-knife, a battered cent, about fifty cents in change, and the capacious pocket-book which he had received from the swindler who was anxious to get back to his sick family in Boston.
In fact, he was just then living up to Dick's description of him as "the beard with the gentleman." "Oh, Mr. Braybrooke," said Miss Cronin as he came up, "so you are here with Beryl!" "Yes; so I am here with Miss Van Tuyn!" Miss Cronin exchanged a glance with Mrs. Clem Hodson. "You didn't tell me when you called that you were taking her out to tea!" "No, I didn't!" said Braybrooke.
Aunt Viney heard this with a slight contraction of her brows and a renewed scrutiny of her knitting; and, having satisfied herself by a personal visit to Dick's room that he was not alarmingly ill, set herself to find out what was really the matter with the young people; for there was no doubt that Cecily was in some vague way as disturbed and preoccupied as Dick.
"He's pinned down by the car!" gasped Deputy Simmons after finding Prescott's submerged body and giving it a hard tug. "Valden, help me lift the car on this side! You two boys pull your friend out when we lift the car. Now!" Though Deputy Valden was able to employ only his left hand, he used it with all his strength. "Here he comes," panted Dave, tugging at Dick's body with all his might.
"Poor Mary, poor Mary!" he murmured, and fell asleep again. Dick's recovery was more swift. He was soon at his father's bedside, and the pleasure that the stricken man took in the presence of his son did more to help him back to full consciousness of his surroundings than anything else. No word came from the wife, however. She was deeply wounded, as well as humiliated.
His trail began here and ran inland and nearly northward for some distance to a lake whose shores it skirted, and then, taking a swing to the southwest, came back to the river again and ended where Dick's began, and the two trappers had a tilt there which they used in common.
Then he listened eagerly for the cry he dreaded yet expected to hear that would tell him that Dick had been hit. It did not come. Instead, he heard more men running, and then in a moment all within the wall was quiet, and he could hear the hue and cry dying away as they chased him along the road outside. "Well, by Jove!" he said to himself, enthusiastically, "I believe Dick's fooled them.
She was thinking of what Tremayne had told her of the attitude of the Portuguese Government, and her clear-sighted mind perceived an obvious peril in permitting Count Samoval to become aware of Dick's whereabouts should they ever be discovered. "What nonsense, Sylvia! You conceive the oddest and most foolish notions sometimes. But of course you have no experience of the world."
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