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Where did you say you was intending to spend the next few weeks before I interrupted so unthinking and disarranged your plans? I'm talking to you, Mr. Anderson." "I was heading for Sonora," the man whined. What Bucky thought was: "Right strange direction to be taking for Sonora. I'll bet my pile you were going up into the hills to meet some of Wolf Leroy's gang.
"I'm afraid it will take a little more than that to settle Leroy's book," said Lord Merivale carelessly. At this moment the door opened and Adrien Leroy himself was announced. There was the usual buzz of welcome, and her ladyship's eyes flashed just one second, as he bent over her hand. "I am so glad you have come, Mr. Leroy," she said. "You can settle a knotty question for us.
"I expect the boys hadn't better touch the sheriff's calves, now you and him are so thick." "We're thick, are we?" Leroy's indolent eyes narrowed slightly as they rested on him. "Ain't you? It sure seemed that way to me when I looked out of that mesquit wash just above Eldorado Springs and seen you and him eating together like brothers and laughing to beat the band.
The prison camps were located far enough behind the defense lines to make it impossible for them to be reached in the course of ordinary fighting. Then, too, the airmen of Germany seemed a step above her other fighters in that they were more chivalrous. So Tom and Jack felt reasonably certain as to Leroy's whereabouts.
Then, lest they should be parted in the general heaving and shifting of that human mass, those teeth of his fastened upon the Capuchin's sleeve. "Take hold of me!" he commanded as distinctly as he could; and the Capuchin gratefully obeyed. "Now untie my wrists!" The Capuchin's hands slid along Leroy's arms until they found his hands, and there his fingers grew busy, groping at the knots.
"I'd love it," she said, burying her hot cheeks in the little space between Leroy's fluffy crown and the collar of his soggy little double gown. "I love 'em, too," Mabel agreed. "But they cert'ny do tie you down. Dette was the same way only I sort of forgot it." "If this salary was going to keep up, I'd like a dozen of 'em!" Martie smiled. "Well, Wallace ought to do well," Mabel conceded.
There was a bubbling of conversation, a rustle and flutter such as there always is where there are many women. All the place was gay with flowers and with gowns as bright as the flowers. I remembered the apprehensions of my sister, and studied Leroy's wife to see how she fitted into this highly colored picture. She was the only woman in the room who seemed to wear draperies.
Tourville's condition on the following morning amply justified Leroy's foreboding; he grew steadily worse, became delirious, and at length grew so violent that about mid-day the mate considered it necessary to remain with him constantly, lest in his madness he should rise from his bed and fling himself through the stern windows into the sea.
Leroy's youthful fineries wonderingly, curiously. It was no credit to Molly that her sixth sense lay in an instinctive selection of the appropriate in the beautiful. She wondered much as a child wonders over the mysterious, at what she more often than not saw on others.
He then determined to invalidate Marie's claim, and divide the inheritance among Leroy's white relations. In a short time strangers, distant relatives of her husband, became frequent visitors at the plantation, and made themselves offensively familiar. At length the dreadful storm burst.
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