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After it had been thus vividly before her for a little that, springing up under her wrong and making them all start, stare and turn pale, she might sound out their doom in a single sentence, a sentence easy to choose among several of the lurid after she had faced that blinding light and felt it turn to blackness, she rose from her place, laying aside her magazine, and moved slowly round the room, passing near the card-players and pausing an instant behind the chairs in turn.
There it lay sizzling and spluttering as the fuse burned lower and lower, the men holding their breath all the while, the other troops scattering right and left. The thing could not last; the tension broke, when one of the card-players seized the shell in his hands and threw it out of the works; just before exploding.
Bishopriggs was insolent on being remonstrated with, and Miss Silvester encouraged him and so on. The result will be now Miss Silvester has gone that Bishopriggs will return to Craig Fernie before the autumn is over. We are sailing with wind and tide, my dear. Come, and learn to play whist." He rose to join the card-players. Blanche detained him. "You haven't told me one thing yet," she said.
"You are correct, Miss Marsden," he replied, stiffly. As he turned away, she glanced at the card-players with a look of horror, as if they were committing sacrilege, and Harcourt had to improvise another poor joke to account for their increasing merriment. But Mr. Dimmerly looked at his nephew in dismay and some irritation.
For both men had seen that Latimer had left his friends at the stable door and was coming slowly toward the bunkhouse. "You'll have to be slick," warned Rogers. "He's comin'. I'll be moseyin' out of the way." He moved slowly from the bench, passed the group of card-players, and walked to the ranchhouse, where he hung the cinch buckle on a nail driven into the wall of the building.
The man lifted his glass straight to his lips, and emptied it. He put it down again on the zinc counter with a click. 'Let's have another, he said. The woman drew the beer, and the man went away with his glass to the second table, near the fire. The woman, after a moment's hesitation, took her seat again at the table with the card-players.
I'll give you another clue her eyes are Irish grey." He sauntered across to the stove, and stood looking idly at the card-players, blue wreaths of tobacco smoke circling up from the bowl of his pipe. Some one opened the street door, letting in a babel of noise, and walked heavily across the office floor. Westcott turned about to observe the newcomer.
Was it possible that somewhere within that four square miles of desolate wilderness might lie the key to the puzzling mystery Buck had set himself to solve? "I wonder?" he murmured again, and leaving the margin of the creek, he moved slowly toward the open bunk-house door. As Buck appeared in the doorway, blinking a little at the lamp-light, the five card-players stared at him in astonishment.
Andre started to his feet, and, with a well-directed blow in the chest, sent the fellow rolling under the table. At the sound of the scuffle, the card-players turned round, and saw Andre standing erect, with quivering lips and eyes flashing with rage, while his antagonist was lying on the floor among the overturned chairs. "Come, come! No squabbling here!" remarked one of the players.
At one end of the long saloon a zealous Cecilite, the centre of a mixed group, was "improving the occasion," Bible in hand exhorting his hearers to turn from the error of their ways, and denouncing the world and its wickedness, as exemplified in the group of card-players close by. Their "I'll order it up!" "Pass!"
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