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"It's from Miss Beaubien, and requires an answer." "You know the way to his quarters, I presume," said Rollins, coldly: "you have been there frequently. I will have a man hold your horse, or you can tie him there at the rail, just as you please." "Thanks. I'll go over, I believe."
Cleared though he is of the charges originally brought against him in the minds of his colonel and Captain Chester, he has lost caste with his fellows and with them. Only two or three men have been made aware of the statement which acquitted him, but every one knows instinctively that he was saved by Nina Beaubien, and that in accepting his release at her hands he had put her to a cruel expense.
I wish " and he looked wistfully, earnestly, at his favorite now, "I wish I could think it wasn't for the sake of Miss Beaubien's black eyes and aboriginal beauty." "Look here, captain," said Rollins, with another rush of color to his face; "you don't seem to fancy Miss Beaubien, and she's a friend of mine, and one I don't like to hear slightingly spoken of.
That very night, before they parted at the colonel's door had he not lied to Alice Renwick? had he not denied the story of his devotion to Miss Beaubien, and was not his practised eye watching eagerly the beautiful dark face for one sign that the news was welcome, and so precipitate the avowal trembling on his lips that it was her he madly loved, not Nina?
"Miss Beaubien, you have cleared him. I only wish that you could clear every one." "I am in no wise concerned in that other matter to which you have alluded; neither is Mr. Jerrold. May I say to him at once that this ends his persecution?" The captain smiled: "You certainly deserve to be the bearer of good tidings. I wish he may appreciate it."
That was fully two weeks before; and now no one knew just what ought to be done. It was known that Nina Beaubien had returned on the previous day from a brief visit to the upper lakes, and that she had a costume of ravishing beauty in which to carry desolation to the hearts of the garrison belles in leading that german with Mr. Jerrold.
Also, as a matter of course, she had been welcomed as one of them, but Kit, with her democratic notions, never even realized that she occupied one of the seats of the mighty, in a circle of the favored few, and that she had smashed all tradition by introducing into that circle a Beaubien.
Young Rollins, to his inexpressible pride and comfort, had a bullet-hole through his scouting-hat and another through his shoulder-strap that raised a big welt on the white skin beneath, but, to the detriment of promotion, no captain was killed, and Jerrold gave the only file. The one question at Sibley was, "What will Nina Beaubien do?" She did nothing.
It was not until after they had gone, when Kit was by herself, that she remembered all Billie had told her, at the very last of his stay. They had walked along the lake shore together, a little behind the others, after the Beaubien family had been visited. "You haven't told me anything at all," Kit said, "about home. When were you in Gilead last?" "Just before we came west," Billie answered.
He came to see Mr. Maxwell and instituted a trade with him. Trading him the "Rebosca Redunda" for his "Beaubien Grant," thereby swindling Mr. Maxwell out of his fortune. After Mr. Maxwell moved to this place he found he had bought a bad title and instituted a lawsuit in ejectment, but was unsuccessful and died a poor man.
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