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His apprehension seemed slowly to return to him. He gazed at me for some moments with a vague, inquiring look; a convulsive tremor quivered about his lips; he feebly extended a shaking hand, laid it upon my head, and burst into an infantine flow of tears. From that moment he would scarcely spare me from his sight.
Once or twice the old man had taken his hands in both of his own, and gazed with painful eagerness into his face, as though trying to remember or to comprehend something that eluded him. Upon these occasions the old man's eyes dropped tears in an apathetic quiet, which tortured Bickersteth beyond bearing.
Philip went over to the woman who had given the cry of terror when she recognized his danger, and sat down by her side. She sat motionless upon a cushion taken from the carriage, warming herself at the blaze; she said no word, and gazed at him without a smile.
"Eleven hundred, yes," breathed the woman, faintly, her eyes horror-filled and fearful as she gazed upon Billy's face. She didn't care for the money any more they could have it all if they would only let her live. Billy turned toward her and held the rumpled green mass out. "Here," he said; "but that's an awful lot o' coin for a woman to have about de house an' her all alone.
The native gazed thoughtfully round, as if to verify the statement. Then he said slowly: "They pulled one down. There weren't enough wind for two on'em!"
She gazed wistfully at Mrs. Clarkson's face, who had now drawn a list from her pocket, and was running through the details half aloud with an absorbed frown. "I shall wait and see the doctor, Nurse," she said presently; "and if he comes soon I shall just get through my business, and catch the three o'clock express."
I soon saw a rush of the people from one of the side streets; a couple of dragoon helmets were visible above the crowd; and three or four carts followed, filled with young females in white robes and flowers, as if dressed for a ball. I gazed intently, to ascertain the meaning of this strange and melancholy spectacle.
Corliss and Wingle turned from looking at Sundown and gazed at each other. "If that's right " And the rancher hesitated. "I reckon it's right," said Wingle. And he stooped and together they lifted the body and laid it across the cowboy's horse. Sundown watched them with burning eyes. "We'll ride back home," said Corliss, motioning to him. "Home? Ain't you goin' to do nothin'?"
The carpenter opened his mouth and seemed about to speak. Then he checked himself suddenly and gazed with interest at the ingenuous dealer. "I'm glad," said Mr. Miller, slowly, as he nodded at a friend of Mrs. Tidger's who had just come in with a long face, "because now that Mrs. Pullen is poor, I can say to her what I couldn't say while she was rich."
As I gazed about me upon these vestiges of once "Merrie Sherwood," the picturings of my boyish fancy began to rise in my mind, and Robin Hood and his men to stand before me. "He clothed himself in scarlet then, His men were all in green; A finer show throughout the world In no place could be seen.
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