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We're going North together." This time it was Blackton who stopped, with a hand on his companion's arm. A short distance from them they could see the buckboard in the light of the station lamp. "Has old Donald written you lately?" he asked. "No. He says he hasn't written a letter in twenty years." Blackton hesitated. "Then you haven't heard of his accident?"
"It's lame for life," she said to him half an hour later, when he was bidding her good-bye, preparatory to accompanying Blackton down to the working steel. "And I deserve it for trying to be kind to you. I think some writers of books are are perfectly intolerable!" "Won't you take a little walk with me right after dinner?" he was asking for the twentieth time. "I doubt it very, very much."
I'm going up to Mr Blackton, our salesman, you know, just to see if he's anything to say, and then we'll go and have our braxfass. Don't you chaps leave the cart." "I sha'n't go," I said, and I glanced at Shock, who climbed up to the top of the baskets, and lay down flat on his face, so as to be away from me as it seemed, but I could see him watching me out of one eye from time to time.
She moved; her eyes opened, and like one gazing upon the spirit of the dead she looked into the face of John Aldous, a madman's face in the lantern-glow. "John John " She put up her hands, and with a cry he ran with her in his arms to the choked tunnel. "Listen! Listen!" he cried wildly. "Dear God in Heaven, Joanne can you not hear them? It's Blackton Blackton and his men!
As if in reply to his words there came a knock at the door, and from the hall Blackton called: "Here's MacDonald, Aldous. He wants to see you." Aldous opened the door and the old hunter entered. "If I ain't interruptin' you, Johnny " "You're the one man in the world I want to see, Mac. No, I'll take that back; there's one other I want to see worse than you Culver Rann."
He was sure that Blackton, at least, would look for him until quite late. The temptation to take advantage of their hospitality was great, especially as it would bring him in the company of Joanne again. On the other hand, he was certain that this first night in Tête Jaune held very large possibilities for him.
He was sure that she understood the meaning of the assault upon her that night, though she had apparently believed what he and Blackton had told them that it had been the attack of irresponsible and drunken hoodlums. Yet he was certain that she had already guessed that Quade had been responsible. He went to bed, dreading what questions and new developments the morning might bring forth.
Mebby they were in bed, but I could hear 'em buzzing like two bees, and every little while they'd giggle, and then go on buzzing again. By George, there wasn't a break in it! When one let up the other'd begin, and sometimes I guess they were both going at once. Consequently, they're sleeping now." When breakfast was finished Blackton looked at his watch. "Seven o'clock," he said.
MacDonald was waiting with the horses, and Blackton was pointing over toward the steel workers, and was saying something about ten thousand pounds of black powder and dynamite and a mountain that had stood a million years and was going to be blown up that night. "It's the best bit of work I've ever done, Aldous that and Coyote Number Twenty-eight.
"But I didn't have time to wait and find out. I was very anxious to see MacDonald again. So I went through the window!" "No, they would have killed you," said Joanne. "Perhaps I did wrong, Mr. Aldous, but I confided a little in Peggy Blackton last night. She seemed like a sister. I love her. And I wanted to confide in some one a woman, like her.
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