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"I scarcely think he will!" Deringham laughed a little. "It might be possible to find means of inducing him." Alice Deringham shook her head. "From what I have seen of Mr. Alton, I fancy it would be difficult." "Well," said Deringham dryly, "we shall see." He had scarcely spoken when a soft drumming sound came out of the stillness.
"There are, as one might expect, men of somewhat different type in this country, but I prefer the first one," said he. Miss Deringham also fancied that she did so, though she did not admit it, and that evening was made acquainted with yet another and more different one.
Then the horse shot forward, and he was away, his torn shirt fluttering as the wind rushed past, while Alice Deringham hastened to the end of the verandah with Forel to see the last of him just as another man rode in at a floundering gallop.
My father was right in holding to the woman who loved him, and I think Tristan Alton knew it when he left Carnaby to me." Miss Deringham seemed thoughtful. The man's grim code of honour, inflexible as it was primitive, caused her, for no apparent reason, indefinite misgivings, and she made a little gesture of weariness.
Alton in the habit of making similar presents?" said Deringham. Seaforth glanced towards the sinewy figure with the glinting axe, and smiled again. "That," he said quietly, "is one of the most generous men in the Dominion of Canada, but I should not care to be the man who attempted to take advantage of him."
Now I've got that slip, and after I'd had a talk with him, Alton wouldn't wonder what you gave me all those dollars for." Deringham was silent almost a minute, for he knew his opponent had seen the weak point. Then he said, "If I admitted that you were right?" Hallam raised his big hand, and pressed his thumb down slowly and viciously on the table. "It don't need admitting.
Still, sometime and somehow, I think he will be sorry he stole poor folks' money." "You," said Miss Deringham, smiling, "are an optimist, then?" Alton gravely glanced about him, and the girl fancied she understood him as she followed his gaze from snowpeak down the great pine-shrouded hillside to the river frothing in the valley.
On the afternoon in question she was, however, slightly angry with him. He had fixed no special time, but she had waited some while, and Alice Deringham preferred that other people should wait for her. She had also taken some pains with her toilet and though her attire was neat in place of ornate, its simplicity was the result of lavish expenditure and artistic selection.
"Well," said Forel slowly, "anything that upsets one is apt to prove perilous in cases like his, and I rather fancy that Deringham had a quarrel with Hallam. They had dealings together, and I think Deringham must have lost a good deal of money. You will not, however, mention it to anybody." Mrs. Forel looked at her husband curiously, "No, of course," she said.
Now you're holding pretty heavy in the Aconada mine, and I've been wanting to get my foot in there for a long while." Deringham stood up, and thrust aside the bottle Hallam passed him. "Before we go any further I want you to understand that if Alton is held up there until December is over it is all I ask," he said. Hallam nodded. "Oh, yes," he said.
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