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Even grief could not keep away the feeling of exhaustion, and Purvis could hear their deep breathing in the corridor, when, having tethered his horse to a distant paraiso tree, he stole softly up to the door. His boy's room was at the back of the house, and Purvis crept round to it, and called him softly by name.
'Yes, assented Peter, 'it's an odd tale. 'I have lived in many parts of Argentine, said Purvis, 'and one hears a good deal of gossip amongst all classes of persons, more particularly I should say amongst a class with whom you and our friend Mr. Ross are not intimately acquainted. Mr. Ogilvie put on an air of detachment, and said he supposed Mr. Purvis met all sorts and sizes.
The speaker turned on his heel and swore. "Oh, damn the Guard, by all means!" said Sergeant Purvis, collecting his papers. "D'you suppose it's any pleasure to me to reject chaps of your build and make? Vote us a second Guard battalion and we'll accommodate you. Now, you can come into Schools and watch Trials if you like." Most of the men accepted his invitation, but a few walked away angrily.
Purvis, who had already become a living entity in my mind, I still had haunting suspicions of Hall; and then, too, there was a possibility of collusion between these two. It might be fanciful, but if Hall and the Purvis woman were both implicated, Hall was quite enough a clever villain to treat the photograph lightly as he had done.
'Purvis came here to leave him in safety. Dunbar was writing another telegram to ask the whereabouts of the steamer. 'Then, he said, 'the story is probably known, and Purvis is aware of it, and has gone north. He daren't show himself near his estancia after this. They began to put the story together, piecing it here and there, while Dunbar continued to send telegrams.
In 1832, just after a visit to Philadelphia, where he was the guest of Robert Purvis, and had seen much of the Fortens, he wrote a friend: "I wish you had been with me in Philadelphia to see what I saw, to hear what I heard, and to experience what I felt in associating with many colored families.
'Remember, little man, said Ross, stretching out a huge foot towards Peter's recumbent figure on the deck-chair, 'I 'm a head and shoulders taller than you are. 'I 'm sure Mr. Ogilvie's remark was only in fun, interposed Purvis. He rose and went to summon his boy to come and have coffee, and the three men left behind under the trees watched him disappearing into the house.
Well, the affair will be judged by English lawyers when we get home, and if it is a case of blackmail, for instance, English people are not very fond of that sort of thing, so Purvis may not be able to make such a good bargain as he thinks. 'Of course the chain of evidence may be perfectly simple.
"All right this time," said Purvis, slowly restoring his gun to its holster, "but if this wolf of yours looks cross-eyed at me agin he'll hit the long trail that ain't got any end, savvy?" "Sure," said Dan, and his soft brown eyes smiled placatingly. Purvis kept his right hand close to the butt of his gun and his eyes glinted as if he expected an answer somewhat stronger than words.
The captain and Purvis, consulting the book of sailing directions, came to the conclusion that the passage via the Bermudas would be distinctly the best and shortest. The wind was abeam and steady, and with all sail set the Osprey maintained a speed of nine knots an hour until Bermuda was in sight.