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A wiry grey beard covered the lower part of the face, and into this he was crooning a tuneless and wholly unintelligible song, while he squatted on the ground in front of a large, covered basket. "He has got a cobra there," Fletcher said, and took Beryl's arm quietly. She moved slightly, with a latent wish that he would take his hand away.
Mechanically Beryl's hand stroked the creature's ear, while it purred softly under the caress; but suddenly its back curved into an arch, the tail broadened, the purr became a growl. Had association lifted the brute's instincts to the plane of human antipathies?
They were all smiling at the escapade Beryl's escapade, that is and I don't think they realized just at first who I was, or that I was in any sense a menace to their peace of mind. When we came opposite and showed no disposition to stop, or even to slow up, I saw the smiles freeze to amazement, and then but I hadn't the time to look.
When a stern reprimand from the Judge had quelled all audible expression of the compassionate sympathy that flowed at the prisoner's story as the flood at Horeb responded to Moses' touch there was a brief silence. Mr. Dunbar rose, crossed the intervening space and stood with his hand on the back of Beryl's chair; then moved on closer to the jury box.
"How long have you lived here?" "We came last summer. Dale wanted to work where there were machines and he got a job in the Forsyth Mills." "You are planning to go back to New York and study?" Beryl's face clouded. "Sometime. But I can't until I earn the money, and it takes such a lot." "Yes, and courage, too," added the lawyer softly, as though he were speaking to himself.
This pretty toy, dowered with an immortal soul, stained by an inherited criminal strain, had appealed to the feminine tenderness in Beryl's nature, and she stood a moment, lost in admiration of the rounded curves and dainty coloring. "Poor little blossom. Nobody's baby! A lily bud adrift on a dead sea of sin.
He left Beryl's chair, and once more approached the jury, "Isam Hornbuckle." A negro man, apparently sixty years old, limped into the witness stand, and having been sworn, stood leaning on his stick, staring uneasily about him. "What is your name?" "Isam Clay Hornbuckle." "Where do you live?" "Nigh the forks of the road, close to 'Possum Ridge." "How far from town?"
Without waiting for permission, Dyce darted past the warden's wife, into the room, and almost before Beryl was aware of her presence, stood beside her. "Are you Miss Ellie's daughter?" Listlessly the girl turned and looked at her, and Dyce threw her arms around her slender waist, and falling on her knees hid her face in Beryl's dress, sobbing passionately.
Not a beauty not at all; but, as the Rector had said, 'striking. As for Pamela, what was the matter with the child? Until Beryl's name was mentioned, there was not a smile to be got out of her. And it was a very fleeting one when it came. Desmond's name fared a little better.
Dunbar walked the length of the veranda, and stood gazing gloomily across the tangled mass of the neglected rose garden, taking no cognizance of the garlands of bloom, seeing everywhere only that lithe elegant figure and Hyperion face of the man who reigned master of Beryl's heart.
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