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Demorest knew that the manager suspected him of being interested in the bank, and understood the purport of the question. He answered, with calm surprise, that he was expecting no telegrams, and added, "But if Mrs. Van Loo returns I beg you to at once let me know," and taking Barker's arm he went in to breakfast. Seated by themselves, Demorest looked at his companion.
His eyes rested for the fraction of a minute on the agonized face lifted to his, then closed wearily. "Can you not get the lady a chair, Nancy?" he asked feebly. "You can borrow one from the room across the hall." "Father!" demanded Mrs. Clarke, "don't you know me? It is Elise. Your daughter, Elise Demorest!" "Demorest," he repeated, and smiled. "How unnatural it sounds now! Demorest!"
We'd been awfully blue after you left. Awfully blue, too, when that bill of sale came, for we thought you'd been wasting your money on US. Reckoned we oughtn't to take it, but send it straight back to you. Messenger gone! Then Demorest reckoned as it was done it couldn't be undone, and we ought to make just one 'prospect' on the claim, and strike a single stroke for you. And there it is.
I know if you do not that Rosita is to leave here for Los Osos an hour from now in a private carriage, which your wife has ordered especially for her. The same information tells me that this villain and another of his gang will be in wait for the carriage three miles out of the pueblo to attack it and carry off the young girl." "Are you mad!" said Demorest, in unfeigned amazement.
At which Demorest, walking slowly towards his partners, opened the packet, and stood suddenly still. It contained the dried and bloodless second finger of a human hand cut off at the first joint! For an instant he held it at arm's length, as if about to cast it away. Then he grimly replaced it in the paper, put it carefully in his pocket, and silently walked after his companions.
Out of my way, or by God " but the sentence was left unfinished as, joined by the sheriff, who had galloped up at the sound of the robbers' flight, he darted past the unconcerned Ezekiel. Demorest would have followed, but Blandford, with a warning cry to him to remain and protect the carriage, halted him at the side of Corwin as the vehicle now rapidly approached.
The front door had swung to. With a desperate bound she darted into the passage and through the hall, dragging him by the hand, and threw the front door open. Without, the street was silent and empty. "Go," she whispered frantically. Demorest passed quickly down the steps and disappeared. At the same moment a voice came from the banisters of the landing above. "Who's there?" "It's I, mother."
He had never known Stacy's real motive for that act, both Demorest and Stacy had kept their knowledge of the attempted robbery from their younger partner, it always seemed to him to be a precious revelation of Stacy's inner nature.
"But for that," said Demorest, turning to Stacy as the door closed, "I should say the dear fellow was absolutely unchanged. But he seemed a little anxious to-night." "I shouldn't wonder. He's got two women on his mind, as if one was not enough." "I don't understand. You say his wife is foolish, and this other" "Never mind that now," interrupted Stacy, getting up and putting down his pipe.
"If that's all your story," he said, "I must say I see no prospect of your reforming. It's the old thing over again, only this time you are evidently the victim. She's some designing creature who will have you if she hasn't already got you completely in her power." "You don't know what you're talking about, Ned, and you'd better quit," returned Demorest, with cheerful authoritativeness.
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