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Bela's set, sullen face told him nothing. Her eyes were undeviatingly fixed on a point a few feet ahead and to the right of the bow. Twisting her paddle this way and that, she snaked the dugout over the crests. Though she seemed to pay no attention to him, she must have guessed what was passing in Sam's mind.
They heard him talking to his horses outside. Joe, scowling and avoiding Bela's eye, dropped into the seat the other man had vacated. "Breakfast," he muttered. Bela knew very well that it was his custom to eat before he started out in the morning. She said nothing, but glanced at the clock on the dresser. "Ah, you'll feed him any time he wants!" snarled Joe.
But everyone was so intent upon enjoyment that a long time went by before gossip occupied itself exclusively with Erös Béla's absence from his pre-nuptial feast. When once it began it raged with unusual bitterness. The scandal during the banquet was being repeated now.
If I get you out of your trouble to-night, you must leave Erös Béla severely alone in the future." "You are a fine one to preach," she retorted, with a harsh laugh. "As if you weren't in love with Elsa, though Elsa will be Béla's wife to-morrow." "My being in love with Elsa has nothing to do with the matter. Nor am I preaching to you. You want me to do you a service and I've told you my price.
His horse was renowned throughout Kabardia and, indeed, a better one it would be impossible to imagine! Not without good reason did all the other horsemen envy Kazbich, and on more than one occasion they had attempted to steal the horse, but they had never succeeded. I seem to see the animal before me now black as coal, with legs like bow-strings and eyes as fine as Bela's! How strong he was too!
But there was one thing she could make clear, to him, and that was how the seemingly impassable gates had been made ready for the woman's entrance and afterwards taken such advantage of by herself and others. A pebble had done it all, a pebble placed in the gateway by Bela's hands.
They caught no further glimpses of the horsemen, and as they drew closer and closer to the river the tension became acute. Suppose they arrived simultaneously, thought Sam, would the men shoot? Not Big Jack nor Shand, perhaps, but Joe was not to be trusted. But surely they would see he was a prisoner. Something of the kind must have been passing through Bela's mind.
"Other woman got him now," Jeresis went on indifferently. The smile froze on Bela's face. A red-hot needle seemed thrust into her breast. "Who?" someone asked. "The white woman that was here. Make her head go this way, that way." Jeresis imitated. "The chicadee woman," said another. "I see them by the company fence," Jeresis went on idly. "She stand on one side. He stand on other side.
His words of courtship were the drops of water that were ultimately destined to wear away a stone. Elsa, lulled into security by her mother's placidity and Béla's apparent simple friendship, hardly was conscious of the precise moment when the siege against her passive resistance was once more resumed.
And the judge! Was he gone also? this man of inalterable habits gone before Bela's return a thing he had not been known to do in the last twelve years? No, no, this could not be.
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