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Now, that's all I'm going to tell you, but I know what I'm speaking of, because I've had my fling and it's costing me more than I care to figure out still. You, however, can pull up, because by this time you have no doubt found out a good deal, if you're not all a fool. Curiosity's at the bottom of half our youthful follies, isn't it, Courthorne?
The gust of rage had gone and left him with the cold vindictive cunning the Celt who has a grievous injury to remember is also capable of, and there was contempt but no fear in his voice as he turned to Courthorne quietly. "Sure it's your turn now," he said. "The last time I put my mark on the divil's face of ye." Courthorne laughed wickedly. "It was a bad day's work for you.
"We know what kind of a struggle you made by what we have seen at Silverdale," he said. Winston put the glass aside, and turned once more to Colonel Barrington. "Still," he said, "until Courthorne crossed my path, I had done no wrong, and I was in dire need of the money that tempted me to take his offer.
Now, it is possible that had one of the rustlers, who were simple men with primitive virtues as well as primitive passions, been similarly placed, he would have joined his comrades and taken his chance with them, but Courthorne kept faith with nobody unless it suited him, and was equally dangerous to his friends and enemies.
"You have seen Courthorne's writing," he said: "would you call it anything like that?" "No, sir," said Trooper Payne. "I would not!" Stimson nodded. "Take a good horse, and ride round by the bridge. If you find Courthorne there, as you probably will, head for the settlement and see if you can come across a man who might pass for him.
He saw the returning fear in her face give place to pain and bitterness as he concluded, and he made a little sign of comprehension. "Well, perhaps, one couldn't blame him. You are going back to England with Potter after the wedding?" His companion said she was, and Courthorne sat silent a moment or two, for the news was at once a relief to him and a cause of thoughtfulness.
Geoffrey Courthorne, well known in this vicinity as a politician with Imperialistic views and a benefactor of charitable schemes. Among the bequests are . . .and one of the farms in the Silverdale colony he established in Western Canada to Lance Courthorne." He laid down the paper and sat rigidly still for a minute or two, while his companion glanced at him curiously.
If you try to make mischief he will kill you." "Ah," said Courthorne quietly. "Well, it wouldn't be very astonishing if he attempted it, and nobody would blame him; but I have, as it happens, no intention of provoking him. After all, it was my fault, and you were too good for me, Ailly." He stopped a moment and smiled, for there was in him a certain half-whimsical cruelty.
It was evident that in the meanwhile he must pass as Courthorne, but as the thought of taking the money revolted him, the next step led to the occupation of the dead man's property. The assumption of it would apparently do nobody a wrong, while he felt that Courthorne had taken so much from him that the farm at Silverdale would be a very small reparation.
It is, of course, sufficient for me to have rendered a small service to the distinguished family which has given me an opportunity; of proving my right to recognition, and neither you, nor Miss Barrington, need have any apprehension that I will presume upon it!" Barrington wheeled round. "You have the Courthorne temper, at least, and perhaps I deserved this display of it.
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