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Maxwell was, as may be supposed, vexed and disconcerted at the result of the duel; and, with an ill grace, he resolved to postpone his revenge to another time, inasmuch as he could not hope again to shoot at his foe in perfect safety. The party returned to the steamer just in season for her departure. Maxwell's wound was examined by the surgeon, and pronounced very slight.
It was no new thing, but in view of the coming ordeal it filled her with misgiving. When she rose herself in the morning she felt weighed down with anxious foreboding. Yet, when Maxwell Wyndham arrived in his sauntering, informal fashion at about noon, she was able to meet him with courage.
Carroll looking over the banisters. Isabel was not allowed to see her father's body that night, but after she was in bed, Lady Maxwell herself, who had been sent for when he lay dying, came down from the Hall, and told her what there was to tell; while Mistress Margaret and Anthony entertained Dr. Carrington below.
Do you know that Lady Maxwell was sitting two from me?" "No! Well, how did she like Fontenoy?" "She never moved after he got up. She pressed her face against that horrid grating, and stared at him all the time. I thought she was very flushed but that may have been the heat and in a very bad temper," added Letty, maliciously. "I talked to her a little about your adventure."
That's what I'd like to find out," said Susan garrulously, "but nothing was ever known, and father was buried as a suicide. Then mother, having me and my four brothers, married again, and I took the name of her new husband." "Then your name ain't really Grant?" asked Geraldine. "No! It's Maxwell, father being Scotch and a clever workman.
"It will hardly be possible to ask Miss Boyce here unless she does!" said Aldous. "And you reckon that I am not likely to go to Mellor, even to see her? And you want me to say a word to other people to the Winterbournes and the Levens, for instance?" "Precisely," said Aldous. Lord Maxwell meditated; then rose. "Let me now appease the memory of Clarke by going to bed!"
My old comrade's grand-daughter will always find friends in this house." Lord Maxwell would have been very much astonished to hear himself making this speech six weeks before. As it was, he handed her over gallantly to Aldous, and stood on the steps looking after them in a stir of mind not unnoted by the confidential butler who held the door open behind him.
"I prefer leaving Captain Maxwell to deal with the situation," Gaskins went on pompously, ignoring the sneer, "as he outranks me, and I am under strict instructions to return at once to the fort. Two of our horses are disabled already, and Smiley is too sick to be left alone. There are only sixteen men fit for duty, and three of those would have to be detailed to look after him. I 'll not risk it.
Then a stranger stepped into the room; evidently a gentleman; he bowed to the two ladies, and stood, with the rime on his boots and a whip in his hand, a little exhausted and disordered by hard riding. "Lady Maxwell?" he said. Lady Maxwell bowed a little. "I come with news of your son, madam, the priest; he is alive and well; but he is in trouble.
Among those who frequently came to the fort were Kit Carson, L. B. Maxwell, Uncle Dick Wooton, Baptiste Brown, Jim Bridger, Old Bill Williams, James Beckwourth, Shawnee Spiebuck, Shawnee Jake the latter two, noted Indian trappers besides a host of others. The majority of the old trappers, to a stranger, until he knew their peculiar characteristics, were seemingly of an unsociable disposition.
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