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He did not want to claim the valise when he saw that I had it. This letter might very possibly have been written by Delphine to Decherd. See here." He placed before Blount the unsigned letter which he had preserved ever since the time of its discovery.
"Halves?" said he at length, suddenly looking straight into Carson's face. The clerk flushed a dull red. The conspiracy was formed. "Why, yes," said he, his voice half-trembling. "I reckon that would be about right." "Well, then, give me the lists," said Decherd. "I'm up and down the road in the Delta now and then. I'll take care of these things.
We are now entitled to our guess as to whether or not we have in this curious way located the head. If we are right, we have at least connected Henry Decherd with an attempt to secure, either for himself or some one else, the title to these lands.
The plaintiveness of her speech touched even this man. He held out his arms. "No, no," she cried, as she drew back. "I tell you, the world has gone to pieces. I must find a new one. I am not myself, I am lost; I don't know what I am." Again for a half-instant, touched as he was, Decherd went near to forgetting the lover.
He caught Decherd by the collar, wrenched the revolver from his pocket and pushed him down the stair, then dragged him along the lower deck. They passed a line of sleeping deck-hands too stupid to observe them. Dragging astern of the boat, high between the two long diverging lines of the rolling wake, there rode a river skiff at the end of its taut line.
I knew that he was smitten with Miss Lady, and that there would be trouble, and that neither Delphine nor myself would be safe. I hid as best I could, and lived as best I could. Lately I have been frightened. I thought I would come to see you. I hoped you might help me. I don't know what I did think." "You don't know where Decherd is at present?" "No, I do not."
He has ordered for to-night the second carriage, which I shall myself take since you are so soon to ride with monsieur all the time, is it not?" The head of madame disappeared. The girl, when at last ready to depart, sat with her gaze fixed on the door; yet she started when presently there came a knock. Henry Decherd entered. "Louise!" he cried, "Louise!" and would have caught her in his arms.
Eddring drew a long sigh of relief. "Thank God!" said he. "So that was our Miss Lady Ellison, and she was not your child. Now, tell me, as soon as you can, how did it all happen? Tell me, where did you meet Decherd? Who was he? Was he your husband? Tell me now, as fast as you can." Mrs. Ellison paled before his vehemence, and her voice broke a bit tremulously. "Well, then, wait," said she.
The United States Court records hold that absolute evidence, res adjudicata stare decisis; which means, in plain English, that ends it. It also means that that Indian claimant could not inherit the Loisson estate! "Now here is an unknown woman, whom we will call Delphine, begging Decherd not to forsake her. There would seem to have been a failure on this line of the Decherd investigation.
I felt their eyes. I felt them, out there in front, as though there were many; as though there were more than one. I felt that they were women-that they were men!" "Well, they have been there all the time," said Decherd. "It's odd you should just realize that." "I never did before," said she. "It kills me. Why, can't you see?
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