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His face was battered and bruised, and his smile as he greeted us partook of the character of his injuries. But he was whole and I hoped not badly hurt. Youth and strength, the best of medicines, were already reviving him. "Well, Roger," he muttered dully, "I'm licked." "Luck," I said laconically. Jack Ballard had clasped his big congested hand, "Proud of you, Jerry, old boy!
Every other thought, sense, or faculty was dully occupied with his hunger and his effort to keep from thinking of it. Hour after hour he plodded on, following the wide, chaotic trail across the white silence of the barren. There was nothing to lift his eyes for, so he kept them automatically occupied in saving his strength by picking the easiest steps through the ploughed snow.
Had he traversed this street farther he would probably have been convinced that the exciting news of the day was already forgotten, for he would hardly have heard the laughter and songs which came from the Toison d'Or unless he had actually gone up the narrow court in which it stood. The door was shut, but the light shone dully through the red blinds which were drawn across the windows.
All the forenoon he went about his usual daily work absently. Frequently he fell into long reveries, standing motionless wherever he happened to be, and looking dully before him. Only once did he show any animation. When he saw Mrs. Blewett coming up the lane he darted into the house, locked the door, and listened to her knocking in grim silence.
Sure he had heard a sound, a sound that did not belong to the night, a thud like the fall of some heavy body on soft ground, and coming from the direction of the camp-fire! For a moment he stared, tense with excitement, toward the camp-fire, now glowing dully; but he saw nothing unusual, heard nothing unusual. Thure still lay by the side of the log, his form showing faintly in the dull light.
"Good gracious!" said Otis Pilkington. "What are you doing here?" Freddie looked up dully from his reading.
It certainly was none I had ever seen; yet it was as certainly metal. It was striated slender filaments radiating from tiny, dully lustrous points within the polished surface. And suddenly I had the weird feeling that each of these points was an eye, peering up at me, scrutinizing me. There came a startled cry from Dick. "Look at the ring!" The ring was in motion!
Manson," he said slowly, "you never took any stock in me or my efforts, so why worry?" "But that's just what I did do," croaked the constable, reddening to his temples. "I invested all I could and," he added dully, "I've got it now." "Ah! so that's it?" "And I'd be grateful if you could tell me " "So you said one thing and did another!" The tones were like a knife.
He held it in both hands as if it were a chalice. Molly, beaten out and white, looked at it dully, but did not seem to see it. "Madonna mia," said the youth, "this is the loving-cup which I am to hand to you after dinner, and which you are to hand to Duke Cesare." He hardly heard her answer, but judged by the shaping of her lips that it was, "Well, Grifone?"
After awhile he moved, lifted his head, and looked about him dully at first and then with a certain stoical acceptance of his plight. He looked into the immediate future and tried to forecast its demands upon his strength and to prepare for them. He crawled farther up on the step, reached the latch, and opened the door.
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