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I wouldn't mind Howard; but there's Charlie and the Everetts that would have to come, if he did, so we might as well stop before we begin. Where was I? Two Burnams and three Everetts and two Fishers, to start with: seven." "And the Nelsons?" asked Allie. "Yes, nine; and Dr. Hornblower is ten, I suppose we ought to ask him, and Mrs.
So I was on the right track; she acknowledged Mrs. Desberger. "Nothing but to return you this. It fell out of your pocket while you were dressing." And I handed her the little red pin-cushion I had taken from the Van Burnams' front room. She looked at it, shrunk violently back, and with difficulty prevented herself from showing the full depth of her feelings. "I don't know anything about it.
It had been decided that the Burnams were to go away from Blue Creek the last week in June, and, soon after this plan was arranged, Louise and Dr. Brownlee had announced their intention of being married on the twenty-fourth, in order that their friends might be present at the wedding, so the last few weeks had found the Everett household in as great excitement as were the Burnams.
The Coroner was already in his seat when I entered, and though I did not perceive the good face of Mr. Gryce anywhere in his vicinity, I had no doubt he was within ear-shot. None of the Van Burnams were visible, but this did not necessarily mean that they were absent.
She was not a stranger to me; that is, I had seen her before in or about the house in which we were at that moment so interested; and not stopping to put any curb on my excitement, I rushed down to the pavement and accosted her. "Who are you?" I asked. "Do you work for the Van Burnams, and do you know who the lady was who came here last night?"
"Do you think you could identify him, Miss Butterworth, if you should see him?" I hesitated, as I perceived that the whole swaying mass eagerly awaited my reply. I even turned my head because I saw others doing so; but I regretted this when I found that I, as well as others, was glancing towards the door beyond which the Van Burnams were supposed to sit.
It did not seem natural or like any of the Van Burnams to leave a woman to spend the night in so large a house alone." "You know the Van Burnams?" "Not well. But that don't signify. I know what report says of them; they are gentlemen." "But Mr. Van Burnam is in Europe." "He has two sons." "Living here?"
"Not yet," returned the doctor. "But, first of all, where is Grant? We must keep him out of the way." "He's at the Burnams'," answered Louise, rising and walking nervously about the room. "Well, send Wang over, and have Grant stay there. Mrs. Burnam will be willing to look out for him, I know; and he isn't likely to give them any exposure, the mischief would be done by this time, anyway.
Now why would not my mind subscribe to it? Had sentiment got the better of me, Amelia Butterworth, and was I no longer capable of looking a thing squarely in the face? Had the Van Burnams, of all people in the world, awakened my sympathies at the cost of my good sense, and was I disposed to see virtue in a man in whom every circumstance as it came to light revealed little but folly and weakness?
Burnam were to go out to camp that day, to make final arrangements for the long-talked-of week, when the Everetts, Burnams, and Fishers were to pitch their tents beside the engineering camp, in the Bitter Root Mountains, and enjoy a week of roughing it in the wilderness.
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