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Cortlandt queried, incredulously. "God!" "That's the fellow yonder." Kirk pointed to Alfarez, whose smile had disappeared. "Oh, the man is mistake'," the latter hastened to aver. "He is crazee." "I gave you a wetting in public, and " "Si, si! That is correc', Senor Cortlan'. He insolt my person an' fight my soldiers. He is ver' toff person." "Did you know he had been maltreated in prison?"
It was bitterly cold, and it was a wonder that the crowd had listened patiently so long. The proposition to go to Hart's store with a demand for flour, was instantly seized, and those around the speaker started off with a shout, and streaming down Broadway, poured in one dark living stream along Cortlandt Street into Washington Street.
At all events, the emotion soon passed, and he rose the next morning feeling that an outing with the Cortlandts would be as pleasant a diversion for the day as any other. Promptly at eight Edith appeared upon the hotel porch. She was alone. "Where's Mr. Cortlandt?" he inquired.
"I've found out all about this man Wynne," he supplemented after a moment, "but nothing in his record seems to have any bearing on this case. He is an orphan. His mother was a Van Cortlandt of old Dutch stock, and his father was a merchant downtown. He left a few thousands to the son, and the son is now in business for himself with an office in lower Broad Street.
He cut a growing poplar, built a fireplace of the green logs around the blaze that Rolf had made, and the meal was ready in a few minutes. Van Cortlandt was not a fool; merely it was all new to him. But his attention was directed to fire-making now, and long before they reached their cabin he had learned this, the first of the woodman's arts he could lay and light a fire.
While Sylvia and Ayrault were standing up to receive the congratulations of their friends, Bearwarden, in shaking his hand, said: "Remember, we have been to neither Uranus, nor Neptune, nor Cassandra, which may be as interesting as anything we have seen. Should you want to take another trip, count me as your humble servant." And Cortlandt, following behind him, said the same thing.
Crossing the divide, he descended to camp, where he found Cortlandt in deep thought. "I cannot get over the dreams," said the doctor, "I had in the first part of the night. Notwithstanding yesterday's excitement and fatigue, my sleep was most disturbed, and I was visited by visions of my wife, who died long ago.
Then after much feinting and fencing, and greatly assisted by the stout Van Cortlandt, Edwardes threw his army across the Indus, at this season a roaring torrent three miles wide, and sought out his enemy. Coming up with him he defeated Mulraj and his army of ten thousand men in two pitched battles, and drove him to take refuge behind the walls of Mooltan.
"Mother, you're a born matchmaker!" exclaimed the girl. "I wish you had had other daughters." "Heaven forbid!" ejaculated Mrs. Hollister with a funny little smile. "One is enough." "Is that intended for a compliment?" laughed the girl. "If so it's a doubtful one." During the month of May, Harvey would invite her to go horseback riding up to Van Cortlandt Park.
Cortlandt detected a small sketch-book peeping out of his side pocket. "On the contrary, that is why we go," said Mr. King. "I've a fancy that I should like to open a season once myself." "Besides," added Mr. Forbes, "we want to see nature unadorned. You know, Mrs. Cortlandt, how people sometimes spoil a place."
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