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Still Daisy did not speak; she had laid her finger under some of the words she had been reading; but when Molly raised her head she remembered the sense of them could not be taken by the poor woman's eyes. So Daisy read them, looking with great tenderness in the cripple's face. " 'I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. That is what it says, Molly."
Their eyes met for a few seconds. The cripple's were burning with fever, like the eyes of a sick man. Crawling along, watching Don Luis's slightest movement, he came and squatted beside the well. The revolver was levelled in his outstretched hand. And his infernal chuckle rang out again: "Lupin! Lupin! That's done it! Lupin's dive!... What a mug you must be!
I tell you I will marry her! What more would you have?" Nigel stood above him with his foot upon his misshapen body. He had picked up his sword, and the point rested upon the cripple's breast. "Nay, you will bide where you are! If you are to live and my conscience cries loud against it at least your wedding will be such as your sins have deserved. Lie there, like the crushed worm that you are!"
The cripple's face did indeed light up as Mr. Ford appeared before him and shouted that gay "Halloo!" "Well, well, well! If you ain't the best sight I've had since I saw you last. Halloo, yourself and see how you like it!" With this attempt at facetiousness, the seller of notions leaned forward over his stand and extended his best hand toward his benefactor. "How's business, Andy?"
They hardly ever saw him; he passed after dark, but they heard him, and the sound always struck the little cripple's ears like a harsh echo of her own mournful thoughts. All these street friends unconsciously occupied a large place in the lives of the two women. If it rained, they would say: "They will get wet. I wonder whether the child got home before the shower."
"One of us will surely die," said the old lady; and there was a mournful conviction in the faint, trembling tones. "Oh, no, grandmother, we are only twelve and a half!" exclaimed the young mother, taking the little one on her knee. "This little fellow only counts half on the railroad." All the party laughed at this remark, even the little cripple's countenance relaxed into a sickly smile.
Dad was so astonished when he heard about that, he said the man ought to be 'framed and put on exhibition, as the only case of his kind on record. Then he suggested this way of earning his living. He has the 'boys' keep him fixed up in a little sort of stand just yonder and they see to it that his stock never fails. The cripple's as proud as Punch.
He besought Otto to meet him this evening in the wood near Peter Cripple's house, and he would give to him an explanation which should be worth the trouble of the walk. It would occasion, he said, much trouble and much misery to Mr Thostrup if he did not go. A strange anxiety penetrated Otto. How could he steal away without being missed? and yet go he both must and should.
Jim resented the cripple's contempt for his wrongs, and ignored the question put to him. He was taking up his belongings again, when Mrs. Macdougal herself fluttered by. 'Why, Mack! she cried. The driver's eyes left his horses' ears for a moment, and rested on the lady. They displayed no particular feeling. 'Hello, missus! he said casually, adding, after a pause: 'Best jump up.
At this moment the cripple's well-known shuffling tread and the rattle of crutches was heard on the stairs. He came up with more than his usual hurry. Croft turned with an effort, so as to get a sight of him as he entered the room. "I have heard the good news," he said, as he reached a hand feebly towards Tom, "and it has made my heart glad."
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