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But soon she forgot her own soliloquy. Once more she looked Decherd squarely in the face. "I can not marry you," she said. "I will not!" "I'll not allow you to make a fool of yourself, or of me," said Decherd. "What do you mean who is 'he'?" He had his answer on the moment, not from her lips, but by one of those strange freaks of fate which often set us wondering in our commonplace lives.
You covered up your trail fairly well; but a criminal will always leave behind him some egotistical mark of his crime, either by accident or by intent. You left marks all along your trail, Decherd there, there, keep quiet. I don't want to use force with you. I'm not going to be the agent of justice.
"They were happening, and they are not done happening yet. Now, I've brought you Miss Lady. You take care of her. Better keep that Frenchwoman here, too, if you can. Decherd may turn up again sometime, or maybe Mrs. Ellison, though I think Decherd's teeth are pretty well pulled, I can't act as Miss Lady's lawyer, but I'll promise to act as your friend." "And hers?"
"Madame," said Eddring, "Miss Louise Loisson was once Miss Lady Ellison, at the Big House plantation of Calvin Blount, in the northern part of Mississippi. Her friends have been looking for her for years, but in some way have missed her. I will say to you that she is a young woman lawfully entitled to property in her own name. This Henry Decherd is unfit company for her, if not dangerous company.
There came a tap at the door, and a call boy offered a card. "It's against orders, I know, ma'am," he began, "but then " Decherd, full of suspicion, sprang at the messenger and caught the card before Miss Lady saw it. His swift glance gave him small comfort. "Eddring!" he cried. "By God! John Eddring! So " "Yes," she flashed again at him.
Yes, of course we must." "Well, now, let's just look over the matter once more," said Eddring. "Let us suppose that Decherd has stumbled on this knowledge of the unclaimed Loisson estate. He works every possible string to get hold of it. He tries to get tax title and that is where he uncovers his own hand. Meanwhile, he tries the still safer plan of finding a legal heir.
We can't prove just yet who was your own mother, but I want to tell you, you were born as far above that sort of life as that there sun is above the earth. No matter how much Decherd loved you, or how much right he had to love you, he couldn't do you anything but wrong and harm, and injury, and shame.
Decherd fails in his first attempt to get rid of Delphine legally, so he stirs her up to still worse acts; tells her there is no profit in law and order, but only in destruction.
Henry Decherd hurried out into the darkness like some creature hard pursued. Number 4 swept on, clacking, rumbling, screaming. The shriek of her whistle, heard now and again, was loud, careless, imperious, self-assured. But what meant this hoarse and swiftly broken note, as though Number 4 were caught in sudden mortal fear?
If only, thought William Carson, these judgments might be collected, and if only but beyond this thought his brain was not shrewd enough to travel. It needed a bolder mind, and this, as it chanced, was at hand, after the devil's fashion in such affairs. Henry Decherd had known Carson in the community where he had lived before his removal to the city.
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