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"She will come down in another minute just here." Now Deringham had seen trees wedged over and drawn down by ropes in England, and wondered a little when the man pointed to the spot where he was standing. "If you don't resent the question, how do you know?" he said. The other man laughed a little. "Harry told me, and he's seldom more than a foot out," he said.
The overalls, tight-belted round the waist, set off the solidity of his shoulders and the leanness of the flank, while with the first glance at his face Deringham recognized the teamster who had driven them through the bush.
"He is my friend and I think you are the only one who can do anything for him." Alice Deringham had in her a trace of greatness which was instinctive, and not the result of the training that had taught her serenity. So, though the man had not hidden his meaning, she made no protest nor asked any question. "All this is new to me," she said; "but I will do the best I can."
He will need a little more taming before I'm fit to ride him." "Then," said Alton, laughing, "I guess you can shove him, because you'll want a horse to bring up the things you're going to wire Vancouver for, and Tom's off with the teams up the valley. Fetch some more water, and start in with the scrubbing. I don't want Miss Deringham to guess we've been doing anything unusual."
"Hallam? Now I wonder " said Forel, and stopped, but Alice Deringham had seen his face, and being a woman took instinctive warning. "I don't think he wanted anything of importance, and he was only in a minute or two," she said. They went in together, but Forel was behind the girl, when she pushed open a door and then stopped just inside it.
His overalls were in tolerable repair, while from an indefinite something in his face and the way he wore them Deringham set him down as an Englishman. Still, he did not think he was an Alton. "Can you tell me where Mr. Henry Alton is?" he said. The young man nodded. "Harry!" he said.
"He is always a trifle sanguine, and he put a good many dollars into a venture Mr. Alton recommended. Tom expected a good deal from it but the dollars have all gone." Alice Deringham did not look at the speaker. "They have lost the money?" "Well," said Mrs. Forel, "I believe they will do.
Anyway, from the sound up yonder you will presently see some of the primitive habits of the genus bos, and the spectacle may be the more interesting because the beast will if possible head away up that valley into fastnesses where only a prehistoric man with a tail could follow it." Alice Deringham said nothing further and was glad of the rest.
In the meanwhile she made the most of Thorne, and by degrees Alton lost his grip of the conversation. He had never seen Alice Deringham attired as she was then, and, for his hostess had made the bravest display possible, the profusion of flowers, glass, and glittering silver which it seemed appropriate that she should be placed amidst, in a curious fashion troubled the man.
"There," said Miss Deringham, instinctively clenching her bridle. "Surely the girl cannot be going to try it." "Good Lord!" said Seaforth under his breath, and the second figure rushed with streaming skirt and hair at the gap cleared by Alton's passage. Then the man turned his head, and it was a moment before he looked round again, very white in face. "Thank Heaven!" he said hoarsely.
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