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Leaning against the partition, and spreading out his arms against it to keep from falling, he worked his way a few feet to the door, and when he turned to go out his hand slipped on the door-facing and he fell heavily upon his face in the passage. He lay still for a moment, and then crawled slowly to the end of the passage and lay down. He had not said a word nor uttered a groan.
"Well, it seemed that you were strangely unconcerned when I told you that I was likely to have trouble with those people." She stood with her head resting against the door-facing. I looked hard at her, striving to catch some sign of emotion, but I saw no evidence of feeling; she was cool and reserved. "I don't know why you should have thought that," she said. "Why should I be so uncharitable.
V.V. Honest!" "But why didn't you stay at the Works? Come, stop this foolishness, Corinne, and answer me sensibly." The girl's cheek rested against the door-facing. She stopped her foolishness. "Mr. V.V., I'm fired." A bullet would not have stopped Mr. V.V.'s advance more abruptly. "You're WHAT?" Kern nodded slowly a number of times.
It was at the opening of the last of these that we rested, and received our first impressions of the wretched plaza, since hung for us with a thousand dirty reminiscences. It displayed none of those architectural embellishments and attempts at magnificence which usually centre about the plazas of the Spanish-American capitals, not even a carved door-facing or trifling ornament of any description.
She gathered up the clothes basket and went into an adjoining room, leaving Kintchin to muse alone. He heard the low whistle of a backwoodsman's improvised tune, and looking up, saw a man leaning against the door-facing. To the old negro the new comer was not a stranger.
When in the moist light of the morning I clearly saw Broussard, haggard, pale and sunken-eyed, watching me thirty feet away, it seemed that I had seen him all the night. No detail of his dress or manner but I observed. There was a scar across his forehead, fresh and bleeding a bit. A contusion rather. He had probably struck the door-facing as he rushed in. Yes, it bled.
She was not yet prepared to part from him forever, she had been nerving herself for the final interview at the depôt; but now it came with a shock that utterly stunned her, and she reeled against the door-facing, as if recoiling from some fearful blow.
Round her was a dark, partially floored space containing hay, fodder, boxes of shelled corn, piles of corn in the husk, and bales of cotton-seed meal. She rapped on the door-facing, and, as she received no response, she called out: "Mr. Westerfelt, come out a minute." She heard him rise from his bed, and in a moment he stood in the doorway. "Oh, it's you!" he cried, in a glad voice.
Even so brief a farewell was broken in upon by her stepmother's call, and pressing her wet cheek for a moment against the discolored door-facing, she hurried out to join her.
Arnold, but he had disappeared; her father was deep in a game of euchre; and as she crossed the hall she was surprised to see Philip leaning against the door-facing, and peering curiously into the parlours. "Philip, what are you doing here?" "Oh, Miss Irene! I have been hunting for you ever so long. Mrs. Davis is dying, and Susan sent me after you.
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