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Over him their eyes met and they questioned each other with a mute and anxious gravity: "What will he do?" For everything was in Arthur Benham's weak hands now. For a little time, which seemed hours to all who were there, the lad sat still, hiding his face, but suddenly he sprang to his feet, and once more stood staring into Ste. Marie's quiet eyes.
He was well known, and no one objected to his walking in and making for the door of the Superintendent's room. An officer to whom he spoke told him that Ned Evans was in custody, and that it was rumoured that some startling discoveries had been made at Benham's lodgings. "Indeed, sir," said the man, "I believe the Superintendent wished to see you." "Ah, I dare say," said Kilshaw.
Sentimental, yes, and pathetic too, when one thought of it with patience. When dinner was over, and the Judge had gone to a concert in town, Corinna's mockery fell from her, and she sat in a long silence watching Benham's enjoyment of his cigar.
Benham's illness, though it lasted only two or three weeks, gave her a sense of power and leadership for which she had been struggling instinctively ever since they came together. For a time at Locarno he was lax-minded and indolent, and in that time she formed her bright and limited plans for London.
The two things merged in White's mind as he read. The written text took upon itself a resonance of Benham's voice; it eked out the hints and broken sentences of his remembered conversation. But some things that Benham did not talk about at all, left by their mere marked absence an impression on White's mind.
Benham was going to stop that conflict very much as a man might go to stop a clock that is striking unwarrantably and amazingly. He was going to stop it because it annoyed his sense of human dignity. White hesitated for a moment and then followed, crying "Benham!" But there was no arresting this last outbreak of Benham's all too impatient kingship.
Corrigan's smile was crooked; it told eloquently of conscious power over the man he had named. "He'll come whenever I give the word. Benham's got something on him." "You always were a clever son-of-a-gun!" laughed the banker, admiringly. Ignoring the compliment, Corrigan walked into the rear room, where he gazed frowningly at his reflection in a small glass affixed to the wall.
The battery of mountain howitzers under Captain Mack of the regular army was also ordered to report at headquarters, with the intention of placing it high up on Gauley cliffs, where it could drop shells among the enemy's skirmishers on the opposite bank of the river. An hour or two passed and the detachment from Benham's brigade approached.
To a man such as my mind has pictured, affection here will not be difficult, for nature has favored Jerry with gifts of mind and body." Everywhere in John Benham's instructions there were signs of a deep and corroding cynicism which no amount of worldly success had been able to dispel.
The whole thing had been in his hands, he said, with perfect truth Arthur Benham's whereabouts proved Stewart's responsibility or, at the very least, complicity and the sordid motive therefor. Remained had Ste.
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