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Thurston lay awake for some time, listening to the fret of the river, which vibrated far across the silence of the hills, and to the occasional crash of a mighty log smiting the slide. Hardly had his eyelids closed when he was aroused by a sound of hurried footsteps approaching the tent. He stood wide awake in the entrance before the newcomer reached it.
In almost a whisper, lest she should still be listening, he said, "There is a story about town that Vera Lytton's former husband an artist named Thurston was here just before her death." Senator Willard leaned forward as if expecting to hear Dixon immediately acquitted. None of us was prepared for the next remark.
Excitement was at all times as wine to him, so, promising to be at the rendezvous, he rode homeward faster than before, with a sense of anticipation which helped to dull the edge of his care. It was a clear cold night when Geoffrey Thurston met Captain Franklin, who held certain sporting rights in the vicinity, at the place agreed upon.
John and Margaret Thurston, who had been with them until that day, were taken away in the morning to undergo examination, and had not returned. The prisoners had not yet heard when they were to die. They only knew that it would be soon, and might be any day.
"You'll sure wish yuh had it before yuh hit camp again; when yuh get wise, you'll ride with your slicker behind the cantle, rain or shine. They'll need singing to, to-night." Thurston prudently kept silent, since he knew nothing whatever about it, and Bob gave him minute directions about riding his rounds, and how to turn a stray animal back into the herd without disturbing the others.
Sometimes I fancy you ought to give up your business before it wears you out. After all, you have not known Thurston long." "Perhaps so," Savine admitted, and when he looked at her Helen became interested in an eagle, which hung poised on broad wings above the valley. "I feel older than I used to, and may quit business when I put this contract through. It is big enough to wind up with.
I do know, after I managed my escape from solitary and struck the guard Thurston on the nose, that before they took me to San Rafael for trial, while I was being cleaned and shaved I weighed eighty-nine pounds. There are those who wonder how men grow hard. Warden Atherton was a hard man. He made me hard, and my very hardness reacted on him and made him harder.
On Sunday morning the lovers "chanced" to meet again for so Thurston would still have had it appear as he permitted Marian to overtake him in the forest on her way to the Sunday-school. She was blooming and beautiful as the morning itself as she approached. He turned with a radiant smile to greet her. "Welcome! thrice welcome, dearest one! Your coming is more joyous than that of day.
"You will do it! You are certain to discover the murderer, and clear up the mystery." The mental excitement that had carried Edith through this scene subsided, and left her very weak, so that when Thurston Willcoxen soon after called to see her, she was unable to receive him. The next morning, however, Thurston repeated his visit, and was brought to the bedside of the invalid.
His keen eyes appeared to take in everything that could possibly concern them. Then he rose, extending his hand, first to Reade, next to Hazelton. "From what technical school do you come?" inquired the engineer as he resumed his chair. "From none, sir," Tom answered promptly "We didn't have money enough for that sort of training." Mr. Thurston raised his eyebrows in astonished inquiry.
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