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By piecing his broken utterances together Mary learned all she needed to know about the case he had gone out to attend, and his desperate ride home. But it was Purdy's name that was oftenest on his lips; it was Purdy he reviled and implored; and when he sprang up with the idea of calling his false friend to account, it was as much as she could do to restrain him. She had the best of advice.
He never "rained fervent kisses on her pale brow," or told her that she was "the day-star of his secret dreams." Instead he talked of eight-hour laws, and minimum wage, and his numerous church activities. He was sleeping at Mrs. Purdy's now, looking after the place while she was away with her brother, and Nance was jealous of his new interests and new opportunities.
"Just as easy to switch cinches as it is drinks, ain't it, Bat?" grinned Tex. "Ba Goss! Heem look lak' Circle J boun' for be wan man short," replied the half-breed, and the girl, upon whom not a word nor a move had been lost, noticed that Purdy's jaw tightened as the Texan laughed at the apparently irrelevant remark.
Satterlee set up the lame defense that he had purchased the vessel from Crawford, and was therefore her actual owner. He was sworn, and gave evidence accordingly, but Purdy's cross-examination left him without a leg to stand on.
Dave Cowan, who always listened attentively to Doctor Purdy for new words, was thus enabled to enlighten Winona about her own and other people's phagocytes; and Winona, overwhelmed by his mass of detail for Dave had supplemented Purdy's lecture with fuller information from his encyclopedia had sighed and said: "Oh, dear! We seem to be living over a volcano!"
Purdy's brigade lost themselves in the woods. But Hampton himself appeared in front, with his brigadier, Izzard, and about 3,500 men. A picquet of twenty-five was driven in, but it only fell back upon a second picquet, when a most resolute stand was made. Colonel DeSalaberry heard the firing and advanced to the rescue.
On reaching the Purdy mansion the riders dismount, and go at once to the library, where Gorman Purely is waiting for them. "Harvey, I am surprised that you should interfere with my orders," is Mr. Purdy's salutation. "Sheriff Marlin has just telephoned me. He tells me that you opposed his evicting the widow, and that the miners are now likely to make serious trouble.
Her eyes met Purdy's as she spoke Purdy had come up laden with empty cups, a pair of infants' boots dangling round his neck and they exchanged smiles; for Zara's latest AFFAIRE DU COEUR was a source of great amusement to them. Polly had assisted at the first meeting between her sister and Purdy with very mixed feelings.
One at a time, and swiftly, they went up this board, and over the wall. At Purdy's they found a meal to tempt the most whimsical appetite. The meal over they spent much time in singing and story-telling. It was nearly two in the morning when Farley and his fellow feasters tried to get back into the grounds, over the wall.
Hampton seeing Purdy's discomfiture, slowly withdrew, leaving Colonel DeSalaberry, with less than three hundred Canadians, in possession of his position, and with all the honors of victory. The loss was not great on either side. Of the Americans, forty were found dead. The Canadians lost five killed and twenty wounded.
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