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Wherever boys congregated, on the campus before the morning session, or down in the lunch room during intermission, when they sampled the various types of sandwiches and pies supplied by Mrs. Louden, nothing was talked of but the chances of Columbia against the seasoned players of Clifford. "They're heavier than our men," one would lament.
"Ah yes," she cut him off, "it is of yourself that you want to speak, after all not of me!" "Look here," he vociferated; "are you going to marry that Joe Louden? I want to know whether you are or not. He gave me this and this to-day!" He touched his bandaged hand and plastered forehead. "He ran into me over me for nothing, when I was not on my guard; struck me down stamped on me "
To come straight down to it: he not only abstained from all argument upon the "Cory Murder" and the case of Happy Fear, refusing to discuss either in any terms or under any circumstances, but he also declined to speak of Ariel Tabor or of Joseph Louden; or of their affairs, singular or plural, masculine, feminine, or neuter, or in any declension. Not a word, committal or non-committal. None!
It was discovered that his sensitiveness to his companion's attack on Joseph Louden arose from the fact that Joe had obtained the acquittal of an imbecile sister of the blind man, a two-thirds-witted woman who had been charged with bigamy. The Tocsin made what it could of this, and so dexterously that the wrath of Canaan was one farther jot increased against the shyster.
This was Joseph Louden, Attorney-at-Law; and to Ariel it was like a new face seen in a flash-light not at all the face of Joe. The sense of his strangeness, his unfamiliarity in this electrical aspect, overcame her. She was possessed by astonishment: Did she know him so well, after all?
Thursday, 15th December, Louden Springs. Surveyed run Number 4, and sent Kekwick to correct observations from Mount Stevenson. Friday, 16th December, Louden Springs. Finished Number 4 run. To-day we have discovered a large fresh-water hole in a creek joining the George and coming from the south-west. The water seems to be permanent; it is half a mile long and seems to be deep.
He had papers for himself and for "Sub-Leutnant Louden." "Correct, Herr Leutnant. Pass on." The car entered the private estate, but swiftly sped off into a side road instead of going up to the big house in the upper windows of which Ruth saw lights, although it was now nearly morning.
"You will come?" said Joe. Martin Pike bent his head dazedly; and at that the other turned quickly from him and went away without looking back. Ariel was in the studio, half an hour later, when Joe was announced by the smiling Mr. Warden. "It was a magnificent thing you did, Mr. Louden," he said, offering his hand heartily; "I saw it, and it was even finer in one way than it was plucky.
Louden looked up calmly at the big figure towering above him. "It won't do, Judge," he said; that was all, but there was a significance in his manner and a certainty in his voice which caused the uplifted hand to drop limply; while the look of apprehension which of late had grown more and more to be Martin Pike's habitual expression deepened into something close upon mortal anxiety.
It was your walkin' with Joe Louden that really finished 'em, and I can say it upset me more than anything I've seen for a good many years." "Upset you, Mr. Arp?" she cried. "I don't quite see." The old man shook his head deploringly. "After what I'd written you about that boy " "Ah," she said, softly, touching his sleeve with her fingers, "I haven't thanked you for that."
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