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"But I don't understand " "I'm sorry. Is there anything else?" "No. That's all." Even Conniston's sanguine temperament was not proof to the shock of his father's message. He knew his father too well to hope that he would change his mind now. His eyes showed a troubled anxiety when he went slowly back to confront Hapgood. "Well, what's the good news?" cried Hapgood.
And finally, when he again stopped in front of Conniston's chair, his face was white, his thin lips set bloodlessly. "I guess there's only one thing left to us. We'll go on into Crawfordsville and put up for a day or two while we try to raise some money. Your seven dollars ought to keep us from starving " "Will you wire your father again?" "No. There would be no use.
Conniston sprang forward to follow up the blow. But Brayley had caught his balance and was leaping to meet him, snarling. His hard, toil-blackened fist drove through Conniston's guard, striking him full upon the jaw.
No, not twenty-four minutes!" He ran the back of his hand across his moist forehead, and sat staring out of the window as though he had forgotten Conniston's presence. "What sort of a time-limit? I thought that Mr. Crawford was alone in this thing, that he had the rest of his lifetime to finish it in if he wanted to take that long." Garton snorted.
And then he gripped Conniston's hand warmly, gave him an address in Denver where a telegram would find him, and drove away toward Crawfordsville, promising to telephone to Brayley to report to the Valley immediately. Before he was out of sight the new superintendent called his four overseers aside. "What wages are you fellows drawing down?" he asked, bluntly. "Three bones," the Lark told him.
In spite of his clenched hands and his fighting determination to hold it off, Keith fancied that he heard again riding strangely in that wind the sound of Conniston's voice. And suddenly he asked himself: What did it mean? What was it that Conniston had forgotten? What was it that Conniston had been trying to tell him all that day, when he had felt the presence of him in the gloom of the Barrens?
And then, when he had seen Conniston's face, "Gad, man! What's wrong?" Conniston shook his head as he sank into a chair. "I I'm a bit upset," he answered, unsteadily. "I made a mistake; that's all." "It wasn't your father?" "That's the trouble. It was! He refuses to send a dollar. And he's leaving to-morrow for a year in Europe."
And again Conniston's fist, itself cut and bleeding and sore, drove into his face, knocking the man down before he had more than risen. As the blow landed upon the heavy bone of the cheek, Conniston's hand went suddenly limp and useless, his face went sheet-white from the pain of it. Some bone had broken, he realized dully. He couldn't clench the hand again.
He's a human fox of the old military school, mustaches and all, and he can see through boiler-plate. But he's got a big heart. He has been a good friend of mine, so along with Derwent Conniston's story you've got to load up with a lot about McDowell, too. There are many things OH, GOD " He flung a hand to his chest. Grim horror settled in the little cabin as the cough convulsed him.
And he knew now why Conniston's face had followed him through the gray gloom and why he had felt the mysterious presence of him long after he had gone. Something that was Conniston entered into him now. In the throbbing chaos of his brain a voice was whispering, "She is yours, she is yours." His arms tightened about her, and a voice that was not unlike John Keith's voice said: "Yes, I want you!
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