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I said I didn't like ye, and I don't! I want to go now. You can sit here alone until Sister Ann comes." She looked so tantalizingly lovely, so lithely young, as she flung the disagreeable words at him, that Brimbecomb impulsively made a step toward her. He was unused to such treatment and manners.
The young Horace and his sister Ann were the favorite companions of Everett Brimbecomb, now six years old. He was a strong, proud, handsome lad. Many conjectures had been made concerning him by the Tarrytown people, because one day five years before the delicate, light-haired wife of Mr.
"Yes, I've missed our bouts, Everett." "You've been exasperatingly conservative with your time lately!" complained Everett. "A fellow can't get sight of you unless your nose is poked in a book or you're in court!" Horace laughed. "Really, I've been awfully busy since " "Since the coming of your wonderful charges!" finished Brimbecomb. Horace scented a sneer. His ears grew hot with anger.
Her dear ones should not fall before the wrath of Lem and Lon, or before the unsurmountable power of Everett Brimbecomb! In her hands alone lay their salvation. Like one stunned, she rose from the bed and carefully destroyed the two letters. This was the one command she would obey promptly. When Ann knocked softly at the door, and no answer came, she gently pushed it open.
Do you understand, Ann?" Fearfully she clutched his fingers. "But Fledra and Floyd I can't let them go back, I can't! I can't!" "They're not going back," said Horace firmly. "Mind you, Ann, even to renew my friendship with Brimbecomb, I shouldn't give them up." "Renew your friendship!" gasped Ann. "Oh, have you quarreled with him, Horace?" "Yes, and told him to leave my office." Ann sobbed again.
She knew now that the only hope for Ann's love for Brimbecomb was that Lem would keep his word and insist upon Lon's holding faith with him. Cronk ordered her roughly to come to him. When she appeared, the two men looked at her keenly. As she evinced no surprise at his presence, the lawyer knew that she had been told of his coming.
Brimbecomb did not feel the same toward her and Flukey as did her brother; but had added, "It's because he does not know you both, Dear, as Horace and I do." Once alone with him, she knew only that she wanted to give him Ann's message and return quickly to Floyd. Before she could speak, Brimbecomb passed behind her and closed the door.
Everett wondered if his affection for the children had been so great that his loss of them had altered him thus. The lawyer did not know how Lon was tortured when he caressed the image of the dead woman, nor could he know the man's agony when her spirit left him suddenly. "You'll have to curb your haste," said Brimbecomb, with a curl of his lip. "It takes time to set justice in motion."
From her hiding-place in the shadow of the porch she came slowly forward. "Can I talk with you a few moments, Mr. Brimbecomb?" she faltered. "I know that you can help me, if you will." Everett's heart began to beat furiously. Something in the appealing girl attacked him as nothing else had. How slim she looked, how lithe and graceful, and yet so childishly young!
Everett, seeing his chance, broke in: "He would be protecting his own, if he came to your home, for his own are there; and we are going to have those children before another month goes by!" "Try it, and perhaps I may bring to your mind what you once said to me about that girl," muttered Horace, with set teeth. "Your errand being finished, Mr. Brimbecomb, you may go!"
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