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As he raised the latch he heard the notes of Mr Harding's violoncello from the far end of the garden, and, advancing before the house and across the lawn, he found him playing; and not without an audience.
However, they were hoping that Granite House would be spared, thanks to Harding's precaution of concealing the windows, when a shot, piercing the door, penetrated into the passage. "We are discovered!" exclaimed Pencroft.
They have taken a small house near Mr. Harding's, and Rachel takes no little pride in her snug and comfortable home. One word more. At the close of her term of imprisonment, Peg came to Mrs. Clifton and reminded her of her promise. Dick was dead, and she was left alone in the world. Imprisonment had not hardened her, as it often does.
Then the two had closed and, in the contest which ensued, Dudgeon had gone down, his assailant venting his mad rage by firing bullet after bullet into the prostrate form. While he was still examining the marks Durham was joined by Brennan and half a dozen of the townsmen who had ridden out in obedience to Harding's warning. Durham drew Brennan aside. "I only have my revolver with me," he said.
The tension on Harding's nerves grew severe. As the Indian, holding tightly to their prisoner's arm, picked his way noiselessly past the open flap, Clarke made a queer noise half cough, half sneeze very low, but loud enough to be heard by any one in the tent. Like a flash, Harding threw up his pistol, ready for use.
"Even a lad like you can bear a rifle, and your mother will spare you from the farm for drill," Allen said, with his hand again on Enoch's shoulder, before riding away. "I shall expect to see Jonas Harding's boy at Bennington when word is sent round for the first drill." And Enoch, his heart beating high with pride at this notice, promised to gain his mother's permission if possible.
Now I'm off," concluded the Captain, and went to the door again to meet Silent Sam Harding, the foreman. "Read this," jerked out the ranchman, and thrust the crumpled letter into Sam Harding's hand. Without a word the foreman spread open the paper and studied it. In perfectly plain handwriting he read the following astonishing epistle: "Captain Dan Rugley, "Bar-T Ranch. "We've got your girl.
Durham brushed aside the volley of questions directed at him as to how it came about that he had returned on foot. Passing into the bank he asked Harding to come with him into the manager's office, and told Brennan to clear everyone else out of the building. As soon as he had heard Harding's account of what had happened, he produced the handkerchief bearing Eustace's name.
Each day the distance covered steadily lessened, and rations were cut down accordingly. Harding's leg was getting sore, but he did not mean to speak of it unless it became necessary. They were, however, approaching the neighborhood of the Indian village and Blake began to speculate upon the probability of their finding its inhabitants at home.
The reserve that Agnes' innocence imposed on the wit of the various narratives, and on the philosophy of the comments often became painfully irksome, and on noticing Harding's embarrassments Mrs. Lahens would suggest that Agnes went to her room. Agnes gladly availed herself of the permission, and without the slightest admission to herself that she hated the drawing-room.
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