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The stream was running fast." Then he was silent for a time and Thirlwell heard the river rolling through its ice-bound channel and the dreary wailing of the pines. He felt disturbed; something in Driscoll's voice and look had jarred his nerves, and it cost him an effort not to waken Father Lucien. It was not time yet and the priest needed sleep.
"Stop there!" said Drummond, with stern quietness, and Thirlwell saw him balance a cutter he held. It was a short but heavy piece of steel, curved at the point. Driscoll's eyes glittered. "Your father was a squaw-man; your mother " He bent his body with the swift suppleness of an acrobat, and the cutter, flying past, rang upon the wall of the shack.
Driscoll's surmise that the deed can possibly be traced to one who recently saw the play of 'Hamlet, yet he must remember that thousands of people saw that play, and that therefore it cannot point exclusively toward Mrs, Embury." "That's so," agreed Driscoll. "Who went with you to the play, Mrs, Embury?" "My aunt, Miss Ames; also a friend, Mrs, Desternay. And, I understand you went yourself, Mr.
Driscoll's suffering eye shone down on Violet Strange's uplifted face as she advanced to say good-bye preparatory to departure. "Yes," she acknowledged, "but hardly, I fear, your gratitude." And the answer astonished her. "I am not sure that the real Alicia will not make her father happier than the unreal one has ever done." "And Captain Holliday?" "He may come to feel the same."
Her reassurance had been fortified by the news she had heard at the Elling dinner the published fact of Harmon B. Driscoll's unexpected victory. "I don't believe we'll ever hear of that gentleman again," he said contemptuously; and their eyes crossed gaily as she exclaimed: "Then they'll give the fancy ball after all?" "I should have given you one anyhow shouldn't you have liked that as well?"
And in three weeks the purloined ring came back to her, in a box of violets with no name attached. The third instance was a recent one, and had come to Mr. Driscoll's ears directly from the lady suffering the loss.
"I presume my daughter has her reasons," he said, moving toward the door in Moffatt's wake. "I guess she has same as I have for wanting you to step round with me to old Driscoll's. If Undine's reasons are as good as mine " "Stop right here, Elmer Moffatt!" the older man broke out with lifted hand.
"There are men who like the dark, in spite of the terrors it has for some." "I wonder whether you are thinking of a particular example," Thirlwell suggested, remembering a night watch he had kept while the blizzard raged about Driscoll's shack. "One does think of examples. Perhaps we generalize too much. It is easy to let an individual stand for a type."
But they did not know it, and consequently surrendered, and he hoisted the British flag and disarmed the residents a really brilliant piece of work, for which Driscoll's Scouts have up to date received no public credit. The Scout and his men took a warm part in the, very warm fight at Wepener, where many a good Briton fell.
After this long digression we have now arrived once more at the point where Pudd'nhead Wilson, while waiting for the arrival of the twins on that same Friday evening, sat puzzling over the strange apparition of that morning a girl in young Tom Driscoll's bedroom; fretting, and guessing, and puzzling over it, and wondering who the shameless creature might be.
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