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It seemed a very long time. The footman fussed and fumed, and at length beguiled the time by smoking and chatting with the coachman, whom he questioned about Mr. Wiggins. The coachman, however, could give him no information on the subject. "I only know," said he, "as how that this yer Wiggins is a Liverpool gent, an' latterly he seems inclined to live here.
"You must really apply to Wiggins, then," said she, carelessly. "No; you yourself are the only one to whom I must apply." "To me? I have no money whatever. It is of no use for me to inform you that Wiggins is all-powerful here. I thought by your professed knowledge of his wonderful secrets that you had some great power over him, and could get from him whatever you want."
We had no wish to be snowbound for the winter in those wilds, with only two weeks' supply of food, and it was for this same reason we had not stopped to hunt that grizzly who had left a fourteen inch track over on Wiggins' Creek the same being Wahb of the Big Horn Basin, about whom I shall have something to say later.
Wiggins looked at her, and as he looked there came over his face an expression of unutterable pity and sympathy, but he said not a word. As he looked at her he leaned his head on his hand, and a low, deep, prolonged sigh escaped him, that seemed to come from the depths of his being. They sat in silence for a long time. Mrs. Dunbar was the first to break that silence.
Leon paused. He had spoken most earnestly and vehemently; but upon Edith these words produced no effect. She believed that this was a last effort to work upon her feelings by exciting her fears of Wiggins. She did not believe him capable of speaking the truth to her, and thus his words produced no result.
"Their bones will bleach in the pathless forest while their scalps hang in the wigwam of Red Bear the terror of the Cherokees!" Then he scalped the Twins with a formidable but wooden knife. "I thought we were three," said Erebus, rising. "They're down in the book," said Wiggins; firmly; and his bright blue eyes were very stern.
She skated round and across the pond several times, then settled down to make a figure of eight, resolved to have it scored deeply in the ice before the Terror came. Wiggins skated about the pond. She had been at work some time and had got so far with her figure of eight that it was already distinctly marked, when there was a crash and a shrill cry from Wiggins.
Yet I have rights, and some of them, at least, I am determined to assert. Now, on the whole, it is well for you and you ought to see it that you have one here who occupies the peculiar position toward you which I do. If it were not for me you would be altogether in the power of Wiggins. He is your guardian or your jailer, whichever you choose to call him.
"Most of 'em are fine," says I, glancin' over the slip; "but who's this W. T. Wiggins with no address?" "I particularly want to reach him," says she. "He is a wealthy merchant who is apt to be rather generous, I am told, if properly approached." "I'll look him up," says I, "and see that he gets an invite registered."
"Yes, yes," said Murphy, who, fond of absurdity as he was, could not stand the fox and the grapes by way of something new. "They're sour, said the fox." "Yes," said Murphy, "a capital story." "Oh, them fables is so good!" said Wiggins. "All nonsense!" said the diminutive contradictor. "Nonsense, nothing but nonsense; the ridiculous stuff of birds and beasts speaking!
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