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But it was none of this that had elicited the man's ejaculation, or had caused his abrupt halt, and sobered the smile in his keen eyes. It was a pair of canoes moored close in to the bank. Two powerful canoes, which were larger and better built than those of trading Indians.
There I emptied my bottle, and was so overcome by it that I did not return home till noon the next day. It was on the way to the Hill that I was told of the awful occurrence which had taken place in the club-house after I had left it. That sobered me. I have been sober ever since." Mr. Moffat's smile came back.
When she returned some fifteen minutes later there was a look of settled calm on her face, and she busied herself making Miss Susie comfortable; for she had reached a decision and could think about other things. And the things that old Landy had told her had sobered her while they strengthened that decision. That night she lay on a restless pillow.
"Been away, haven't you?" he asked. "Yes. I took a little horseback trip into the mountains. My knees are still not on speaking terms." The sheriff chuckled. Then he sobered. "Come and sit down," he said. "I'm going to watch who goes in and out of here for a while." Bassett followed him unwillingly to two chairs that faced the desk and the lobby.
His face sobered in a moment. "I forgot, Jim," he said, "thet any one war heah savin' ourselves. They must think us two 'scaped lunertics." "That's all right, Jordan," said Sedgwick, and he formally presented his friend to the ladies and to Browning.
Thus, in the night's hot imaginations, he resolved to find the spoil; to will, was then to do: to do, was then to conquer. However, Nature's sweet restorer came at last, and, when he woke, the idea had sobered down last night's fancies were preposterous.
The sparkling jeu d'esprit had only sobered down into the quiet sarcasm; and if his wit rippled less freshly to the breeze of the present moment, it was coloured more richly by the glittering sands which rolled down from the experience that over shadowed the current.
But he, mistaking the reason of this sudden violent attack, somewhat sobered, and frightened at what he had done, ran off as fast as he could, while she threw stones at him, some of which hit him in the back. He ran for a long time, very long, until he felt more tired than he had ever been before.
Did she reproach him with his life-long injustice? Did she demand the old home in exchange for the service she had rendered? Or at least the privilege of buying it? She merely wrote; "I have been to Washington and secured a reprieve pending further sifting of evidence." Ben Garrett was saved and the close view of the gallows sobered him at last.
Then I narrated all that I had seen and done and heard during his absence, holding back one thing. What I did tell him sobered him at once, brought the quiet, somber mood, the thoughtful air. "So that's all. Well, it's enough." "All pertaining to our job, Vaughn," I replied. "The rest is sentiment, perhaps. I had a pretty bad case of moons over the little Langdon girl. But we quarreled.
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