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He merely said: "Good-night and Heaven bless you, Dorothy." She answered: "Good-night, Jerold," and gave him her hand. He held it for a moment the riches of the world. And when he had gone they felt they had divided, equally, a happiness too great for terrestrial measurement. Garrison slept the sleep of physical exhaustion that night in Branchville.
Despite the delays of the investigation immediately undertaken, Garrison managed at last to secure the freedom of Pike and Will Barnes, in addition to that of himself and Foster Durgin. As good as his word, he took the disciple of Walton to a first-class dealer in sportsmen's articles and bought him a five-dollar rod. Barnes and the coroner of Branchville started somewhat late for their town.
President Davis having declined the proposition of General Beauregard to evacuate all the cities on the coast and make a stand on the Edisto, declined also a like proposition to fight the great battle at either Branchville or Columbia, without offering any better policy himself.
For the second time, when she at length appeared, Garrison found himself obliged to invent a plausible excuse for his visit and curiosity. "I dropped in to ascertain a few little facts about the late Mr. Hardy, whose death occurred last week in Branchville," he said. "The insurance company that I represent goes through this trifling formality before paying a claim."
As the rebels have probably removed their most valuable property from Augusta, perhaps Branchville would be the most important point at which to strike in order to sever all connection between Virginia and the Southwestern Railroad. General Grant's wishes, however, are, that this whole matter of your future actions should be entirely left to your discretion.
"To Branchville and Hickwood." The playing suddenly ceased. She looked up at him swiftly. In nervous haste she resumed her music. "Not on detective work? You mentioned insurance." "It concerns insurance." She was silent for a moment. "When do you return?" "I hardly know," he answered. "And I suppose I've got to start at once in order to maintain our little fiction."
A little after eight o'clock he arrived in Branchville, found James Pike's real-estate office ablaze with light, and walked in on that busy gentleman, who rose in excitement to grasp him by the hand. "You got my wire?" demanded Mr. Pike. "I'm awful glad you came. I turned up something in the Hardy case that I think you ought to know.
"So help me, I didn't go as far as that!" said Tuttle. "I admit I stole the letter up at Branchville, and sent it to Robinson at once. I admit I followed you back to New York and told him all I could. But I only gave him the names and addresses of the dagos, and I never knew what they had to do!" Garrison took the bomb and placed it on his bureau. "Very good," he said.
She had known of his visit to Branchville; his line of questions might have roused her suspicions; the cigar had been plainly in sight. He had seen her enact her rôle so perfectly, in the presence of her relatives, that he could not doubt her ability in any required direction.
Nevertheless, time was equally material, and the moment I heard that General Slocum had finished his pontoon-bridge at Sister's Ferry, and that Kilpatrick's cavalry was over the river, I gave the general orders to march, and instructed all the columns to aim for the South Carolina Railroad to the west of Branchville, about Blackville and Midway.
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