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Porter retired in dudgeon. She liked to rule, and at No. 90 she felt that she had become merely among those present. She was in the position of a mother country whose colony has revolted. For years she had been accustomed to look on Ruth as a disciple, a weaker spirit whom she could mould to her will, and now Ruth was refusing to be moulded. So Mrs. Porter's visits ceased.
His heart had warmed to the tattered outcast at his side, who had been the means to this glorious end. It had been all over, accomplished; now it was again thrust back into the scales, where it dangled as insecure as ever. It wasn't the money alone that teetered in the balance, but the honor of Allis Porter's brother.
Not a little alarmed, I started up, and, without saying a word, ran out of the door and through the little garden, where I was very nearly tripped up by the confounded potato-vines which the old Receiver had planted, evidently by the Porter's advice, in place of my flowers.
After this I will not go anywhere unless I am asked." Heroic resolve! Downstairs the great gate was shut, as it usually is in houses occupied by the proprietor; the kitchen stood exactly opposite the porter's lodge, and the door was open. Pons was obliged to listen while Madeleine told the servants the whole story amid the laughter of the servants. She had not expected him to leave so soon.
"Can you tell me," proceeded Lane, "where the balance of Mr. Porter's three thousand dollars is?" "It's in the box." "That's a it is not." "It's in the box," repeated Mortimer, firmly. "We can soon settle that point," declared the cashier, going hurriedly into the vault and reappearing instantly with the box in his hand.
The whites had gotten them. They all had been scalped and were dead except the baby, three years old. She she my father killed her." A gasp of horror went round the table. "I think such stories are inexcusable here!" exclaimed Katherine indignantly. "So do I, Mrs. Jack," replied Cartwell. "I won't do it again." Porter's face stained a deep mahogany and he bowed stiffly to Katherine.
We came up in a carriage which is probably waiting for us this very minute by the porter's lodge." "Well, I am certainly absent-minded!" "Absent-minded!" scoffed Abbott. "You never forgot anything in all your life, unless it was to go to bed. You wanted an excuse to come back." "Any excuse would be a good one in that case. I think we'd better be going, Padre.
I warned Roch against coming in contact with Maroney on his journey, as I surmised that he was going away to see if he would be followed. This was certainly his intention. For some time I had feared that Maroney had some idea of Porter's reasons for stopping in Montgomery, and felt that if he had, he would be completely disabused of it by discovering that Porter did not follow him.
In the meantime, Miss Allis, if I were you I should keep away from him." Then presently, with good-nights and parting words of warning about Diablo, the guests were gone; and Mortimer, having declined Porter's proffered help, was somewhat awkwardly having but one good hand preparing to retire in Alan's room.
"We may so well make our congees here," she went on, "as under the porter's nose." An awkward silence fell between them for a minute, and these two old creatures, who for more than fifty years had felt no constraint in each other's presence, now looked into each other's eyes with a fearful diffidence. Jan cleared his throat, much as if he had to make a public speech.
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