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He done well, but he was killed by his car just after the baby was born." "Killed? That's tough. And it left you all alone with the children?" "Yes. The road paid us a little, but I was sick and the children were sick, so it did n't last long." She was not complaining. It was a bare recital of facts. But it raised a series of keen incisive thoughts in Donaldson's brain. Wentworth had been killed.
She rose at once and took her place by his side for the last stretch of free road that lay between her and the city. At the station there was no sign of the fugitive. She objected instantly to Donaldson's suggestion that she go on while he wait over the night in the hope that Arsdale might turn up here for the first train in the morning.
In the meanwhile Miss Arsdale had waited at the front door, her ears to the panels. For a few moments she heard Donaldson's footsteps moving about the house, but soon the walls swallowed him up completely. She ran back a little and strained her eyes towards the upper windows. They were darkened with shades.
Such was Donaldson, a man utterly fearless, but reckless only when alone, of a steadfast, cool courage and resource when responsible for the safety of others that made him the man out of a million best worth trusting in any emergency where a bold heart and ready wit may avert disaster. Donaldson's days were never dull.
"The most barefaced hint I ever heard in my life," said Lawrence. "Well, I thought I would take her a small present " "A pity you can't hold yourself in a little more," was the answer. "You must gush!" "Anyhow," Carrissima continued quite humbly, "I went to Donaldson's Phoebe, I saw the duckiest little opal brooch. I was half tempted "
It was Donaldson's son, a babe in arms at the time his father sailed away to his death! In a few simple words he told me that he and his family lived in a small village. With infinite grief they had read the article charging his father with unmanly conduct a grief that was the greater because they possessed no means to refute the charge.
The unromantic but not unusual inability of a professional predecessor to pay his board-bill, obliging him to leave his balloon with mine host as surety, first placed in Donaldson's hands the means by which he became afterward best known.
If Clark had made that journey on foot he had accomplished the impossible. Certain facts, according to the local correspondent, bore out Margaret Donaldson's confession. Inquiry showed that she was supposed to have spent the winter following Judson Clark's crime with relatives in Omaha. She had returned to the ranch the following spring.
He strode to the side of the foreman of the gang who stood near. "Who is that man down there?" he demanded. "Dunno," the foreman answered briefly, "he asked fer work this mornin' and I give him a job." "I 'm going to speak to him." "Fire erway." Arsdale clambered into the hole and reached Donaldson's side before the latter glanced up.
'And this is Christmas-day! thought John; and could have laughed aloud in tragic bitterness of heart. In front of Donaldson's Hospital, John counted it good fortune to perceive a cab a great way of, and by much shouting and waving of his arm, to catch the notice of the driver.
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