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He lashed out a heavy fist that caught Trevison full and fair on the jaw, and the latter's face turned ashy white as he sank to his knees. Corrigan stopped to catch his breath before he hurled himself forward, and this respite, brief as it was, helped the other to shake off the deadening effect of the blow.
The latter seemed to have been limited to two months. "See me before your lease expires," she heard Corrigan tell the men. "Does the railroad own the town site?" asked Rosalind as they emerged from the last store. "Yes. And leases are going to be more valuable presently." "You don't mean that you are going to extort money from them after they have gone to the expense of erecting buildings?"
For when a man has a wife she's continually remindin' him of it, an' he can't forget it he's got her. It's the same with his land he's got it. So far as I know there's never been a deed issued for my land or any of the land in that Midland grant, except Trevison's." "It looks as though Corrigan had considered that phase of the matter," dryly observed Judge Graney.
"H'm," said Benham. "I thought Corrigan " he began. The girl's eyes chilled. "H'm," said Benham, again. It was a month before Trevison went to town, again. Only once during that time did he see Rosalind Benham, for the Blakeleys had vacated, and goods and servants had arrived from the East and needed attention.
But Corrigan noted that the mass had a point, like a wedge, made by three men who seemed to lead it. Something familiar in the stature and carriage of one of the men struck Corrigan, and he strained his eyes into the darkness the better to see.
But now he followed Corrigan's lead and threw his hat from him. Then he crouched and faced Corrigan. They circled cautiously, Trevison's spurs jingling musically. Then Trevison went in swiftly, jabbing with his left, throwing off Corrigan's vicious counter with the elbow, and ripping his right upward. The fist met Corrigan's arm as the latter blocked, and the shock forced both men back a step.
Smiff laughed: he has been in hospital nine months, and his theory is that a Sister may do anything at any moment; his theory is that nothing does any good that if you don't fuss you don't get worse. Corrigan was angry all day; the idea that "a bloomin' woman should come an' shove something into me systim" was too much for him.
He laughed again as he looked down at the banker. Reaching down, he grasped the inert man by the scruff of the neck and dragged him through the door, out into the banking room, past Corrigan, who watched him wonderingly and to the front, there he dropped him and turning, answered the question that he saw shining in Corrigan's eyes: "I don't work in the dark!
Braman went again to the glass, Corrigan standing silently behind him. Standing before the glass, the banker was seized with a repetition of the sickening fear that had oppressed him at Corrigan's words upon his entrance. It seemed to him that there was a sinister significance behind Corrigan's present silence. A tension came between them, portentous of evil. Braman shivered, but the silence held.
As he fell he saw Corrigan's eyes brighten, and he twisted sideways to escape a heavy blow that Corrigan aimed at him. He only partially evaded it it struck him glancingly, a little to the left of the chin, stunning him, and he fell awkwardly, his left arm doubling under him. The agonizing pain that shot through the arm as he crumpled to the floor told him that it had been broken at the wrist.
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