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Fabian H was awakened by his affectionate wife, who informed him that it was time for him to prepare himself for his hunting expedition. Sleepy, and unwilling to leave his cozy bed, for the sake of enjoying the damp morning air, Mr. Fabian addressed his spouse with all the tenderness which his state of mind would permit: "Dear Ulgenie, you "
We stayed over Sunday, and we went to the Episcopal church near our hotel, to hear an English divine preach." "Well?" "He was the celebrated pulpit orator, the Dean of Olivet " "Good Heav " exclaimed Mr. Fabian, involuntarily, but stopping himself suddenly. "What is the matter?" demanded Cora, suspiciously. "I was too near the edge of the precipice.
"I think your firm can just pay the price and exist!" she said. "It's a terrible sum, and it shows how great a criminal you are!" "Not a 'thirty-cent' criminal, anyhow," said Carnac. "It is a moral victory, and tell Fabian so. He's a bit huffy because I got into the trouble, I suppose." "No, he loathed it all. He's sorry it occurred."
"I regret exceedingly being compelled to report to you that since Sunday the 25th instant scandalous acts have been going on in the Province of Tarlac, which I represent. On the night of the Sunday mentioned the entire family of the Local Chief of Bamban was murdered, and his house and warehouse were burned. Also the Tax Commissioner and the Secretary, Fabian Ignacio, have been murdered.
"I knew it would be so," replied Fabian, with a smile. "You interposed unknowingly between crime and the just vengeance which pursued it. Do you know who is the man for whom you wish to expose your life? and who are those who have spared it? Do you know whether or not we have the right to demand from him, whom you doubtless know only as Don Estevan, a terrible account of the past?
Fabian, feeling the silence awkward and oppressive, at length ventured to say: "My dear father, in this our severe bereavement " But he got no further in his speech. Old Aaron Rockharrt raised his hand and stopped him right there, and then said: "Not one word from any one of you to me or in my presence on this event, either now or ever. It happened in the course of nature. Drop the subject.
The fire almost touched the island, a few minutes and it would be alight, when with the rapidity of lightning, Bois-Rose glided into the water and disappeared. Shouts rose from each side of the river, when the Indians, as well as Fabian and Pepe, saw the floating mass tremble under his powerful grasp.
"Never again my dearest husband shall we differ in our opinions. Equality in marriage renders it a useful institution; but to change the subject, it is long since you have made any hunting excursions, dear Fabian, to-morrow you must go."
"Uncle Fabian, do you remember a certain warm night in September some five years ago, when we stopped at the Wirt House in Baltimore?" "On our way home from Canada yes, I do." "My room was close that night and I could not sleep.
Carnac placed the bouquet upon the table. Then he turned to his brother. "What a damn mess you make of things, Fabian!" "Well, what's happened since I've been gone, mother?" asked Carnac. "Is nobody we're interested in married, or going to be married?"
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