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"How come you knew just where to make that hole to let me out?" Teodoro laughed. "That was easy, señor. That was the Garza Rancho—only six months has the army been there. Many times we have camped within its walls when we brought in the best of the wild catch for sale. I know those buildings very well. When Señor Topham tells my father what must be done, we could plan well and quickly.
I got into that mass of silk and lace oh, silk on silk, and Nance Olden inside! Beryl Blackburn did my hair, and Grace Weston put on my slippers. Topham, himself, hung me with those gorgeous shining diamonds and pearls and emeralds, till I felt like an idol loaded with booty.
"No, that would be too much to hope for, you are not a fool. But I have something else to suggest. Reese Topham tells me you are looking for work, preferably with horses. Well, I have a contract to gentle some remounts for the army, and I need some experienced men to help break them—" Drew could not understand the sudden pinch of—could it be alarm?
"Did you hand the handkerchief back with a paper inside of it?" "Not according to any knowledge of mine, sir." "Was there a paper in the handkerchief, Mr. Dodge, when Mr. Prescott passed his handkerchief to you?" "To the best of my belief, sir, there was not." "Now, pay particular heed, if you please Mr. Dodge," requested Lieutenant Topham, fixing his gaze keenly on the witness.
"Reese Topham tells me that he explained the local situation to you, and you appeared to understand it then. Any difficulty with the army could have serious consequences, not just for you, but for the Range as well. This time you were not the aggressors. But after being forewarned, if it happens again, I’ll be hard to convince that you were in the right. The war’s over—keep on remembering that.
In spite of the cold of the night, Drew was wet with sweat as they threaded through heady sage brush. Now came the scent of horses, the sound of a hoof stamped impatiently on gravel. "Trinfan?" Topham! Here? "Sí." At Hilario’s hissed assent, a figure detached itself from the utter black of the bushes and moved forward into a sliver of moonlight. "You got him?" "I’m here, if that’s what you mean!"
"I do not know a greater rascal, except yourself." I was little short of thunderstruck. But presently Mr. Garrick added complainingly: "I paid a guinea for the archbishop, but the fellow got me three murderers to-day and the best alderman I ever clapped eyes upon. So we are square." After the play we supped with him at his new house in Adelphi Terrace, next Topham Beauclerk's.
"Topham, Topham planned this?" Rennie still showed surprise. "I don’t—" A bird called flutingly. Rennie stiffened. Men moved, up slope, into cover, without direction. "You two ... get up there, behind those pointed rocks," Don Cazar directed with a stab of his finger. "I’ll be right behind you."
For five minutes she sat at some fashionable kind of work wafer work, I think it was called, a work which has been long since consigned to the mice; then her ladyship yawned, and exclaiming, "Oh, those lines of Lord Chesterfield's, which Colonel Topham gave me; I'll copy them into my album. Where's my album? Mrs. Harrington, I lent it to you. Oh! here it is. Mr.
"Miss Manners is able to take care of herself," said Topham. "'On dit', that she has already refused as many dukes as did her Grace of Argyle," said Mrs. Meynel. I had lost track of the cards, and knew I was losing prodigiously. But my eyes went back again and again to the group by the doorway, where Dolly was holding court and dispensing justice, and perchance injustice. The circle increased.
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