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The splendour of the sunset was in his soul and the world was athrob with joy. His reveries were broken by a timid knock on the door and a faint call: "Jim!" "Come in!" he cried. "You're not a bit glad to see me," the soft voice said. "I've been standing out there for ages!" "Forgive me, Sunshine, I must have been dreaming," Stuart pleaded, leaping from his seat and seizing her hand.
"We're up five flights, in th' back. D'yer really mean that you'll come an' see Lily?" Rose-Marie nodded soberly. How could the child know that her heart was all athrob with the call of a great adventure? "Yes, I mean it," she told him. "When shall I come?" The boy's grubby hand shot out and rested upon her sleeve. "Come to-morrow afternoon," he told her. "Say, yer all right!"
Was this lone traveler West? Jessie picked up the rifle and made sure that it was in good working order. A tumultuous river seemed to beat through her temples. The pulses in her finger-tips were athrob. Could she do this dreadful thing, even to save honor and life, though she knew the man must be twice a murderer?
She listened to the drone of the bees in the garden near by, the distant whetting of a scythe, the monotonous whang of a steam thresher not far away, the happy voices of children, and thought how empty a life in this village would be; almost as dreary and uninteresting as living in a desert and then suddenly she caught a name and the pink flew into her cheeks and memory set her heart athrob.
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