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Updated: June 29, 2025
The stolen stuff was jewelry, and there was not much chance that it would be recovered. Those to whom it was consigned would have to stand the loss. But when it was considered that nearly all the valuable mail had come through safe, or rather, had been recovered, and that Mr. Argent's real letters were still safe, every one said it was a very lucky outcome indeed.
Argent's letters, but said nothing to her about having again seen the two men who had annoyed her. "It would only worry her," he reflected, "and she has worries enough without my adding to them." Jack remained that night in Golden Crossing, spending a pleasant evening with Aunt Matilda and Jennie. He was off early the next morning for the ride to Rainbow Ridge.
Presently the crack of Argent's rifle was followed by the spring of a buck high into the air, all four feet together, poor animal, as the death-pang pierced his heart. 'I thought I never should get fair aim, from the way he was protected by trees, said the sportsman, reloading with satisfaction.
His logs and shingles, his beaver meadow and water privilege, were more to him now than all the political movements which might shake Ireland to its centre. Long after Argent's short athletic figure, crowned with fair curls, lay fast asleep on his buffalo rugs, enjoying hunters' repose, the brothers sat talking and musing.
'There's hundreds of years of lumbering in the Bytown district alone, said he; 'why, sir, it alone comprehends sixty thousand square miles of forest. There could hardly be a wider contrast than between Captain Argent's usual dinner at his regimental mess, and that of which he now partook in the lumbermen's shanty. 'Your men seem to be temperance folk, observed Argent to the foreman.
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