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Henderson's pleasant voice. But she might as well have said nothing, for Grandma didn't hear a word. "'Tain't proper to see your minister's wife in your mornin' cap, nor your petticoat neither for that matter," said Grandma to herself, looking down at her short gown. So she concluded to put on her Sunday-go-to-meeting gown, as she called her best dress.
The beauty of the elm impressed him very greatly. According to the list of names eighteen, not seventeen, members were elected; but apparently only seventeen took part in the proceedings. Henderson's Journal. "Our game, the only support of life amongst many of us, and without which the country would be abandoned ere to-morrow." Henderson's address.
Without the least unbending from his dignity, he told me many anecdotes about city politicians, which would have been amusing if I had not been anxious about other things. The afternoon passed, and the night, and the day, I cannot tell how. But at evening I knew by the movements in the house that the crisis had come. I was waiting in Henderson's library.
This shy little savage, whom all the Settlement knew as "Baisley's Sis," had an intuitive knowledge of the wilderness and the trails which rivalled even Henderson's accomplished woodcraft; and the indomitable deputy "set great store," as he would have put it, by her friendship. He would go down presently to the clearing and ask some questions of the child.
She held a baby in her arms as she peered questioningly at the visitor. Mostyn knew who she was. She was Henderson's youngest daughter, who had married a shiftless carpenter and been deserted by him, leaving two children to be cared for by their grandfather. It was evident by her blank stare that she did not recognize the caller. "I want to see your father," Mostyn said. "Is he at home?"
It furnished occupation and gave good fees to a multitude of lawyers, and was dignified by the anxious consultation of many learned judges. I am charitable enough to suppose that if the scheme had failed, the public conscience is so tender that there would have been a question of Henderson's honesty. But it did not fail. Of this scheme, however, we knew nothing at the time in Brandon.
As for Gaunt, he acted with his usual decision, first dashing the window wide-open, and next stooping to raise his friend and convey him into a presumably more healthy atmosphere; and if any additional motive beyond solicitude for the sufferer were needed to impel him to this step he had it, first in the awful pallor which suddenly overspread Mrs Henderson's features, and secondly in a curious sickly feeling of lassitude and languor which he felt stealing over himself.
I observed a pretty girl sitting at one of the tables with my new pitcher, Henderson. "Say, Mac," I said to McCall, who was with me, "is Henderson married?" "Naw, but he looks like he wanted to be. He was in the grand stand today with that girl." "Who is she? Oh! a little peach!" A second glance at Henderson's companion brought this compliment from me involuntarily.
He glanced swiftly round till his dark eyes rested on the hawk-like visage of the doctor. "Say, Will Henderson's dead," he said, in a quiet, solemn voice. "He's been murdered. He's lying up there on the south side of the eastern bluff. Guess you'd best send up and see to him." His words produced a sudden and deathly silence. Every eye was upon his pale face in excited, incredulous wonderment.
But he should not see how happy she was; she would be civil, and just a little reserved; it was so like a man to make a woman wait all day and then think he could smooth it all over simply by appearing. But somehow in Henderson's presence these little theories of conduct did not apply. He was too natural, direct, unaffected, his pleasure in being with her was so evident!
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