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But the next moment all the bantering light went from his face, while his eyes flashed in lightning-like appraisement over Denny's lean shoulder-heavy body, from his feet, small and narrow in spite of the clumsy high boots, to his clean-cut head, and back again. There was a hint of businesslike eagerness in that swift calculation of possibilities. The boy shifted consciously under the scrutiny.
When the day was more advanced, several of Denny's brothers and sisters returned, and the house was nearly filled with their acquaintances and relations. Ere one o'clock had passed they wore all assembled, except old Denis, of whom, no person could give any intelligence.
I happened to be standing talking to him when Denny came running out of the station. Isn't it too bad Denny's so bow-legged? Though I don't know as it hinders him from running to any noticeable extent. I had an awful time trying to keep up so's to find out what had happened. I bet you Nan's packing right this minute and just loving it. My ain't some people born lucky?
The result was a sudden pause in our friends' advance; but they were near enough now for me to distinguish the last comer, and I discerned in him, although he wore the native costume, and had discarded his tweed suit, Constantine Stefanopoulos himself. "Here's an exercise of self-control," I groaned, laying a detaining hand on Denny's shoulder.
Then he slipped one hand through the crook of Denny's elbow. "I guess I'll have to take a chance on you. It's too good to keep all to myself." He led the way back to the empty truck. "And you ought to be safe, too, for judging from the sentiments that were expressed after you left last night, you er don't run very strong with this community, either."
She hoped that their children would have things a little easier. The baby whimpered, and she held him closer. Denny's voice piped up: "Cousin Nancy, will Abe ever grow to be as big as me?" "Bigger'n you are now," she told him. "Will he grow as big as Cousin Tom?" "Bigger'n anybody, maybe." Nancy looked down at her son, now peacefully asleep.
Denny's faithful horse was standing near, as if keeping watch over the inanimate form of his late friend. They buried him where he lay, and a traveler passing over that trail, will observe a solitary grave. On the tombstone at the head is inscribed: "DENNIS HOGAN, "Private, Company B, "29th U. S. Infantry. "He died that others might live."
Even since the conference in Hogarty's little office, when he had agreed to the ex-lightweight's plan, it had been vexing him, no nearer solution than it had been that day when he assured Hogarty that there was more behind young Denny's eagerness to meet Jed Conway than the prize-money could account for.
He was magnifying the unfathomed peril that existed in his erratic, hair-trigger old brain alone merely for the sake of the complacent pride which resulted therefrom pride in the contemplation of his own intrepid dare-deviltry. He could scarcely have put into words just what reception he had imagined was awaiting him; but, whatever it might have been, Young Denny's greeting was full as startling.
In a week or two Boltonwood'll be as famous as as why, we'll be as famous as the Chicago Fair!" He broke off with a gasp for breath and started fluttering madly through the paper which he had wrenched from Young Denny's bundle of closely wrapped mail, until he found the page he sought. "There 'tis," he cried, and pointed out a lurid headline that ran half across the head of the sporting section.
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