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She obeyed as a child might have, and kissed his damp forehead close to the red furrow where the bullet cut. "Not there," Steele whispered. Then blindly, as if drawn by a magnet, she bent to his lips. I could not turn away my head, though my instincts were delicate enough. I believe that kiss was the first kiss of love for both Diane Sampson and Vaughn Steele.
Each performer quaked with fear, and both sympathy and approval were in the applause. Miss Polly Vaughn was a rare picture of rustic beauty, her cheeks as red as her ribbons, her voice low and sweet. Trove came out in the audience for a look at her as she read. Ringing salvos of laughter greeted the play and stirred the sleigh-bells on the startled horses beyond the door.
"What was the purpose of all that elaborate mummery out at the Red Lodge?" asked Kennedy pointblank. I think I looked at Craig in no less amazement than Vaughn. In spite of the dramatic scenes through which we had passed, the spell of the occult had not fallen on him for an instant. "Mummery?" repeated Dr.
The enemy being thus checked, I sent a staff-officer Captain Sheridan to General Grant to report what had taken place during the afternoon, and to say that I proposed to stay at Dinwiddie, but if ultimately compelled to abandon the place, I would do so by retiring on the Vaughn road toward Hatcher's Run, for I then thought the attack might be renewed next morning.
"Do you recognize this handwriting?" asked Mr. Vaughn, after a few moments desultory conversation, handing her a letter. Clemence uttered an ejaculation of surprise, "Why, it looks like mine, though I never saw it before. What a singular resemblance." "What is more singular still, it has your signature," said the gentleman; "read it."
But the face of Ralph's grandfather became convulsed with a sudden fury. He rushed upon Ralph with a celerity unlocked for in one so old, and wrenched the rifle from the boy's hands. Then he turned upon Jase Vaughn who had witnessed this action in astonishment. "Now," shouted old Granger, "reckon I'll get even for the loss of my son. Here's at ye!"
She had never said she cared for me although she had looked it. This tangle of my personal life, however, had not in the least affected my loyalty and duty to Vaughn Steele. Day by day I had grown more attached to him, keener in the interest of our work. It had been a busy month a month of foundation building.
On the 28th the following instructions were given to General Sheridan: "CITY POINT, VA., March 28, 1865. "GENERAL: The 5th army corps will move by the Vaughn Road at three A.M. to-morrow morning. The 2d moves at about nine A.M., having but about three miles to march to reach the point designated for it to take on the right of the 5th corps, after the latter reaching Dinwiddie Court House.
But to be massacred in bed, knifed, in the dark, shot in the back, ambushed in any manner not one of these miserable ends must be the last record of Vaughn Steele. He promised me in a way that made me wonder if he would ever sleep again or turn his back on anyone made me wonder too, at the menace in his voice.
"You know what I mean," persisted Kennedy, "the mumbo-jumbo just as the Haitian obi man sticks pins in a doll or melts a wax figure of his enemy. That is supposed to be an outward sign. But back of this terrible power that people believe moves in darkness and mystery is something tangible something real." Dr. Vaughn looked up sharply at him, I think mistaking Kennedy's meaning.
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