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"As I was saying, when interrupted," he began, continuing to minister to the sombrero, "you see I am an accomplished horseman." Marion and Hillyer broke out in uncontrollable laughter. Then Hillyer hastened to assist Smythe to rise. "Not hurt, I hope?" said Robert. "Objectively, no. Subjectively, yes. Sartorially, a wreck."
Neither Hillyer nor Lagow proved to have any particular taste or special qualifications for the duties of the soldier, and the former resigned during the Vicksburg campaign; the latter I relieved after the battle of Chattanooga.
The machine, with a kind of shudder, responded to Hillyer's hand, and shot out with fresh speed. Another brief silence. "The cut-out!" she ordered. Hillyer bent to the mechanism, and the engine, with the muffler off, roared and shrieked as it took the smooth white road, with every bar and rivet throbbing under the pressure. Only then did Marion turn, and motion to Smythe.
It's pure foolishness!" "Take care, gentlemen be not hasty. Observe he has the blood-mark on his brow." Hillyer turned white with fright. He was near to crying. He turned this way and that, appealing to every face for help and sympathy; and held out his supplicating hands toward Holmes and began to plead, "Don't, oh, don't! I never did it; I give my word I never did it.
"She has no chance, that's certain," replied I. "I only hope it may be so thick that we may not see her." "Not a soul will be saved, sir," replied the master, shuddering. "I should say it were impossible, Mr Hillyer; but we all owe Heaven a death; and if they go first and we go after them, at all events, let us do our duty until the time comes but never despair.
She stood up excitedly, and Seth also, dropping a half-oiled boot on the floor. "What the devil?" ejaculated Huntington. So they stood, waiting and wondering, while Hillyer alighted from the automobile, and walked, with exasperating slowness with reluctance, if they had but known it up the graveled path among the flower beds.
But then he saw suddenly another meaning, for him, in the brutal ultimatum; and his face brightened. "That settles it, doesn't it?" he exclaimed eagerly. "Settles what?" "Why, you'll go with me!" "No." "What do you mean?" "I told you I'm not ready yet." There was a silence while Hillyer, buoyed up with new hope, made some hurried calculations. "Then listen, Marion!" he said.
This was a keener thrust than Hillyer had any intention of delivering, provoked though he was by Huntington's behavior; for Seth had not included in his narrative any reference to the affair at the post-office, or to Haig's visit to his house. Huntington's face became purple; and if he had been apoplectic in disposition he would surely have suffered a seizure in that moment of choking rage.
"And that's about all I know of him," Huntington replied, "except that we ought to have run him out of the Park long ago, and will do it yet, so help me God!" "Why?" asked Hillyer shortly.
Bring the doctor in the car. Fast, please!" Hillyer, without another word, ran and leaped into the automobile, and was soon bringing the echoes out of the hills again. He sank low in the seat, and fixed his eyes on the road that stretched out blinding white in the sunlight.
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