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He bowed his excuses to Nelly Lebrun, not without grace of manner, and then huddled Donnegan into a corner with a wave of his vast arm. "Now what do you want? Who are you? Who put that name in your mouth?" "She's in The Corner," said Donnegan, and he dwelt upon the face of Jack Landis with feverish suspense. A moment later a great weight had slipped from his heart.
To Nelly Lebrun this day was one of those still times which come over the life of a person, and in which they see themselves in relation to the rest of the world clearly. It would not be true to say that Nelly loved Donnegan. Certainly not as yet, for the familiar figure of Lord Nick filled her imagination. But the little man was different.
As for the other half, Landis spends it on this woman with whom he has become infatuated. And not a penny comes through to me!" Colonel Macon leaned back in his chair and his eyes became fixed upon a great distance. He smiled, and the blood turned cold in the veins of Donnegan.
Oddly enough, he looked at Donnegan, not at the girl, and this token of the beaten man decided her. "Well?" said Lord Nick. "I have decided," said the girl. "Landis should stay where he is." Neither of the two men stirred hand or eye. But Lord Nick turned gray. At length he rose and asked Donnegan, quietly, to step aside with him.
His knee struck the floor with a soft thud. "Come on, Nell. Don't be hard on me. I thought you were stringing me a little. But if you're playing straight, tell me what you want?" At that she bounced upright on the bed, and before he could rise she caught him by both shoulders. "I want Donnegan," she said fiercely. "What?" "I want him dead!" Joe Rix gasped. "Here's the cause of all my trouble.
He went to the foot of the stairs, even past the old woman, and, raising his head, he spoke to the girl. "My name's Donnegan. I came over from the railroad walked. I don't want to walk that other eight miles unless there's a real need for it. I " Why did he pause? "I'll pay for anything I get here."
In inaction he seemed femininely frail and pale; but when his spirit was roused his eyes blazed as his hair burned in the sunlight. "You shall learn in the end," he said to the girl, "that everything I do, I do for you." She cried out as if he had struck her. "It's not worthy of you," she said bitterly. "You are keeping Jack here in peril for my sake?" "For your sake," said Donnegan.
He had already gone through the gambler and taken his weapons; he was now obeyed. The man of the linen coat tossed up his arms, flung his right leg over the horn of the saddle, and slipped to the ground. Donnegan joined his captive. "I warn you first," he said gently, "that I am quite expert with a revolver, and that it will be highly dangerous to attempt to trick me.
He added: "Also, what I say has to do with Lord Nick." "Ah," said the girl a little coldly. Donnegan went on. He had chosen frankness to be his role and he played it to the full. "It is a rather wonderful story," he went on. "You know that Lord Nick went up the hill for Landis? And The Corner was standing around waiting for him to bring the youngster down?" "Of course."
When she was gone, though the door to the kitchen stood wide open, and big George was in it, the colonel lowered his bass voice so successfully that it was as safe as being alone with Donnegan. "And now for facts," he began. "But," said Donnegan, "how that chair how in the world have you come here?" The colonel shook his head. "My dear boy, you grieve and disappoint me.
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