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Rutton looked up, his eyes perplexed. "Why, what is there to do? Get away as best I can, I presume seek another hole to hide in." "But how about the law?" "The law? Why need it ever be known what has happened to-night? I can count on your silence I have no need to ask. Doggott would die rather than betray me. He and I can dispose of it.
"Rutton why by all that's strange!" "Guilty," said the other with a quiet laugh. "But sit down." He swung Amber about, gently guiding him to a chair. "You look pretty well done up. How long have you been out in this infernal night? But never mind answering; I can wait. Doggott!" "Yes, sir." "Take Mr. Amber's coat and boots and bring him my dressing-gown and slippers." "Yes, sir."
He scowled thoughtfully at Amber, ferociously at Doggott, went back into the station, gossipped casually with the telegraph sounder for a quarter of an hour, and finally reappearing, without a word or a nod left the platform for the road and walked and walked and walked and walked. Within thirty yards his figure was blurred by the dance of new-born heat devils.
"Yes, sir," affirmed Doggott respectfully. "I'm a bit too old to chynge my w'ys; a valet I've been all my life and a valet I'll die, sir. It's too lyte to think of anything else." "But with this money, Doggott " "Beg pardon, sir, but I know; I could live easy like a gentleman if I liked but I wouldn't be a gentleman, so what's the use of that?
"It's altogether inconceivable," he summed up his bewilderment. "It does seem so even to me, at times." "Then why in Heaven's name " By now Doggott had invested Amber in his master's dressing-gown and slippers; rising he left them, passing out through an inner door which led, evidently, to the only other room in the cottage.
"Even a tonga will be a relief after three days of this, Doggott," he observed, surrendering himself to the ministrations of the servant.
I therefore desire that my body-servant, Henry Doggott, an English citizen, shall inherit and appropriate to his own use all my property and effects, providing he be in my service at the time of my death.
The Virginian stood over him for several minutes before he could bring himself to the point of awakening the man to the news of Rutton's death. Aware of that steadfast loyalty which Doggott had borne his master through many years of service, he shrank with conceivable reluctance from the duty. But necessity drove him with a taut rein; and finally he bent over and shook the sleeper by the shoulder.
His limbs twitched and jerked nervously; his eyebrows were tensely elevated, his eyes blazing, his nostrils dilated; his face was ashen grey. From across the room Doggott signalled silence to Amber, with a forefinger to his lips; and with a discretion bred of long knowledge of his master's temper, tiptoed through into the back room and shut the door.
"I don't think Doggott was any more dumfounded than I," said Amber. "I couldn't believe he'd left you, yet it seemed impossible that you should be here of all places in the neighbourhood of Nokomis, I mean. As for that " Amber shook his head expressively, glancing round the mean room in which he had found this man of such extraordinary qualities.
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