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Reginald opened it, read it, and let it fall to the floor. Randolph opened it, read it, and let it fall to the floor. It contained a thick announcement card, with heavy gold edge, and the news that it carried was to the effect that on December the first Miss Priscilla Abigail Patience Brydon had been united in marriage to Rev. Alfred William Henry Curtis Moreland, Rector of St.
She called to him to come into the pantry, and while she hurriedly peeled the potatoes she plunged at once into the subject. "Rance," she began, "you go to see Mrs. Brydon far too often, and people are talking about it." Rance shrugged his shoulders. "Now, don't tell me you don't care, or that it's none of my business, though that may be true."
Brydon to go driving with him, an invitation which Fred urged her to accept. When the drive was over and Rance came in to the twins' apartments, and on their invitation had a game with them and lost, they were suddenly smitten with an idea. They began to see how it might be possible to start another fire!
Unlike the twins, Fred Brydon liked hard work, and applied himself with great energy to the work of the farm, determined to disprove his angry father-in-law's words that he would never make a success of anything. The fact that the twins were playing for money gave Fred some uneasy moments, and the uncomfortable suspicion that part of his money was being used in this way kept growing upon him.
"At sunrise to-morrow he goes." He tried to take her hand. "Oh, please, please," she pleaded, with a quick, protesting gesture. "Sunrise is far off, but the man's fate is near, and you must save him. You only can do so, for Doctor Hadley is away, and Doctor Brydon is sick, and in any case Doctor Brydon dare not attempt the operation alone. It is too critical and difficult, he says."
He was a gentleman, in spite of all, and this man was a common river-boss. Presently he drew himself up with an air. The heavy board was still in his arms. Brydon came over and took the board, looking him squarely in the eyes. "Mr. Rupert," he said, "I want to ask something." The old man nodded. "I helped you out of a bad scrape on the river?" Again the old man nodded.
"'Accepted' ?" Brydon oddly sounded. "Before, for the interest of his difference yes. And as I didn't disown him, as I knew him which you at last, confronted with him in his difference, so cruelly didn't, my dear, well, he must have been, you see, less dreadful to me. And it may have pleased him that I pitied him."
Shut up there, at bay, defiant, and with the prodigy of the thing palpably proveably done, thus giving notice like some stark signboard under that accession of accent the situation itself had turned; and Brydon at last remarkably made up his mind on what it had turned to. It had turned altogether to a different admonition; to a supreme hint, for him, of the value of Discretion!
But as they did so the inhabitants of the town seized their arms and assailed them. Two of them were cut down. The others fled, but were hotly pursued. Three of the four were overtaken and slain within four miles of Jelalabad. Dr. Brydon alone remained, and gained the fort alone, the sole survivor, as he believed and reported, of the seventeen thousand fugitives.
It is my granddaughter at that window. Tell her that I'll think of her to the last. . . . Good-bye!" Brydon was eyeing the logs. The old man's voice was husky; he could not cry out, but he waved his hand to the girl. "Oh, save him!" came from her faintly. Brydon's eyes were now on the covered bridge. Their raft was in the channel, coming straight between two piers. He measured his chances.
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