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For at least a moment the two women stood looking at each other. If Miss Campbell had flinched, there is no telling what the half-savage creature, insane with rage, might have done. And even now, with a swift movement, Mrs. Lupo brandished a long carving knife in Miss Campbell's face. "Drop that instantly," thundered Miss Campbell in a voice that did not seem to be her own.
"It all came about," remarked Mary, who was fond of tracing things to their beginnings, "because Billie bought a pail of blackberries from Phoebe one morning and Mrs. Lupo was angry." This might be considered an interesting and perfectly true statement, but nobody heard it, because they were busy organizing a search party.
Their rugged edges were veiled and softened by the shadows of the passing clouds. Miss Campbell closed her eyes. "Life is very pleasant," she thought, "even at sixty." After a long dreamy period as untroubled as a summer sea, some instinct compelled her to open her eyes, and she found herself looking straight into the eyes of Mrs. Lupo who was standing at the foot of the hammock. Mrs.
His head was shaped like that of a fox, and his hair and beard were of a reddish-tawny hue. His manner was stealthy, cowering, suspicious, as if he feared a blow from every hand. Yet Lupo Vulp could show his teeth and snap on occasions. He was attired in a close-fitting doublet of russety-brown, round yellow hose, and long stockings of the same hue.
"Well, what do you want?" she demanded, always holding the woman's gaze with hers. Mrs. Lupo moved a step nearer, still with her hands behind her back. "Stand where you are," ordered Miss Campbell, fired with superhuman courage and never once shifting her gaze. "Stand where you are," she repeated. There was not a tremor in her voice. "Now, give me what you are hiding behind you."
"You're a friend of Lupo, I see," remarked the doctor looking very hard at the man. "I guess that's none of your affair," answered the other angrily. "And nothin' agin' him nor me either, for the matter o' that." The doctor lifted his eyebrows. "I'd like to hire two or three guides. Are there any about?"
You see the door I mean? About it, quick!" And Lanyere instantly departed with three of the myrmidons. "I would this arrest could be lawfully effected, Sir Giles," said Lupo Vulp, "by a serjeant-at-arms or pursuivant. There would then be no risk. Again I venture to counsel you to proceed regularly.
Lupo I'd get mad, and she would just fold her tent like the Arab and silently steal away, and one morning there would be no breakfast." Billie had tried several methods with Mrs. Lupo. She had said good morning with a polite smile, but received no response. Once she had added: "How do you feel this morning, Mrs. Lupo?" A dead silence had followed this courteous inquiry.
"We're in the rights of the law," put in the innkeeper. "Why wear masks then?" asked Richard Hook. There was no answer to this pointed question and three of the maskers slunk toward the door. "We've come here to git two criminals hiding illegally in this here camp," burst out Lupo. "Have you a warrant for their arrest?" "We don't need no warrants in these here mountains."
"Do you love your husband?" "Yes," answered the other with so much eloquence of expression that Miss Campbell knew she spoke the truth. "And he loves you?" "He loves me, but not so much. He leaves me for long time, alone." "Has he ever seen you in a rage?" "Yes," answered Mrs. Lupo in a low voice, her head sinking on her breast. "Of course, then, that is why he leaves you.
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