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The Seattle and Portland paper copied." He stood silently for a minute. Mabel's face was turned toward him again, and he could see the glow of expectancy in it. Corry was deeply interested in the ragged toe of one of his moccasins, while Dora was stealing sidelong glances at the immobile face of Lashka sitting on the sled.
"I know," said the girl, gloomily "'Your money or your life' for I suppose it sounds like that. Corry would say his convictions are his life. But why 'a man, Waggin?" She straightened her pretty shoulders. "I don't believe you'd mind if it were a woman. You don't believe in a woman having convictions!" Waggin looked a little bewildered. "I'm old-fashioned, I suppose but "
Glancing through the headline, "Young Lochinvar came out of the North," and skimming the article until the names of Mabel Holmes and Corry Hutchinson, coupled together, leaped squarely before his eyes, he turned to the top of the page. It was a San Francisco paper. "The money's yours, Inwood," he remarked, with a short laugh.
Father did leave the estates to mother just because Corry had taken up such views so that she might keep us straight." "But afterward! My dear, he is so young! And young men change." Lady Coryston's death was not, of course, to be mentioned except with this awe and vagueness scarcely to be thought of. But hotter revolutionists than Corry have turned Tories by forty. Waggin harped on this theme.
"Arthur, my son, you'll be in trouble, too, before you know where you are!" "Do hold your tongue, Corry!" "Why should I? I back you strongly. But you'll have to stick to her. Mother will fight you for all she's worth." "I'm no more to be managed than you, if it comes to that." "Aren't you? You're the darling, at present. I don't grudge you the estates, Arthur."
It made her shiver to remember how he had refused to be nursed by her or by any one but the old housekeeper at Coryston; how for weeks he had scarcely spoken to his father or mother. Then had come the lad's justification a hideous cruelty charge against the head master; and on a quasi-apology from his father, Corry had consented to forgive his parents.
Corry for instance at his preparatory school, taking a loathing to his head master, demanding to be withdrawn, and stubbornly refusing to say why; the master's authority upheld by Corry's parents; vindictive punishment; followed by sudden illness on the boy's part in the midst of the commotion, and his return home, white-faced, silent, indomitable.
The Highlands, in spite of Culloden, were not entirely pacified in the year 1749. Broken men, robbers, fellows with wrongs unspeakable to revenge, were out in the heather. The hills that seemed so lonely were not bare of human life. A man was seldom so solitary but that eyes might be on him from cave, corry, wood, or den.
At the gee-pole was a man who steered in a manner familiar to Pentfield, and behind the sled walked two women. His glance returned to the man at the gee-pole. It was Corry. Pentfield got on his feet and waited. He was glad that Lashka was with him. The meeting could not have come about better had it been planned, he thought.
He knew George Hotspur well, and would on no account lend him a shilling. He would not have given his friend money to extricate him from any difficulty. But he forgave the sinner all his sins, opened Castle Corry to him every year, provided him with the best of everything, and let him come and dine at Altringham House, in Carlton Gardens, as often almost as he chose during the London season.
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