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Updated: May 13, 2025
I come special t' see 'im." For months Elizabeth had wanted to see Silas and the baby in a "free for all tumble" and her eyes danced with delight at the idea. She had not had such a thrill in many weeks; the young mother spoke in every line of her young face. As if by magic her troubles fell away from her. Crooking her finger beckoningly at the old man, she crept on tiptoe to the bedroom door.
As the three went up together, with the strange rider at a respectful distance behind, Nicholas broke out again in one sentence. "They have done it," he said, "he is dead. Mother of God!" His whip twitched in his clenching hand. He turned and jerked his head beckoningly to the man who followed; and the four went on together, through the hall and into Sir James's parlour. Sir James shut the door.
In that one little moment of comfort, which she yearned to hold free from suffering that its remembrance might uphold her, the powerful vision of the Tintoretto's awful Judgment rose beckoningly before her. It was the doom of Venice, and she alone so impotent recognized the danger. The vision pursued her night and day.
It was a mere speck on the gray horizon, but it was plainly human, and evidently wishful to draw their attention. "Some'un wantin' us?" said Rube in a puzzled tone. "Seems." Seth was intent upon the figure. Another "Coo-ee" rang out, and Rube responded with his deep guttural voice. And, in answer, the bundle of furs raised two arms and waved them beckoningly. Rube moved along the trail.
Manuel answered not, but merely waved his small hand beckoningly, and passed along up the street through the drifting rain, lightly and aerially as though he were a spirit, and the Cardinal possessed by some strange emotion that gave swiftness to his movements and strength to his will, followed. They met scarcely a soul.
He waved his cigar beckoningly to Bill Hayden, turned his head to shake it at something Mary V had said from the doorway, and waited for Bill to ride close. Mary V, camouflaged in her blue negligee worn over her riding clothes, came out and stood insistently, her two hands clasped around Sudden's unwilling arm. "No, sir, dad, I'm not going back to bed.
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