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She'll do her duty, and with one hand tied! Can't you do as much? Haven't you any idea of duty in the world?" "Duty!" Dunwody's lips met in a bitter smile. "Listen here, Mr. Dunwody," began Josephine, "I've seen worse wounds than that, seen weaker men survive worse than that. There's a chance perhaps why don't you take it like a man? I exact it of you. I demand it! Your duty to me is unpaid. Come.
There is fine precedent for our little enterprise." The swift flush on the face of the other man made his answer. Dunwody went on mercilessly: "He played then much as you do now. There was against him then, as there is now against you, a man who admired not so much just one woman in all the world as, let us say, one particular woman then and there present. Perhaps you remember his name Mr.
"Some high-class forger or confidence worker that's beat the government somehow, maybe. But she don't look it I'll be damned if she looks it. I wonder ?" Dunwody, left to himself, began moodily to walk up and down the narrow deck, his hands behind his back. On his face was the red fighting flush, but it was backed by no expression of definite purpose, and his walk showed his mental uncertainty.
The fact that I have insulted a woman can be proved. It is with you, what revenge you will take. As a lawyer, I point out to you that the courts are open. You easily can obtain redress there against Warville Dunwody. And your relatives or friends will of course hold me accountable." "Then you fear me?" "No. What comes, comes. I am afraid of no one in the world but my own self.
When the two men found themselves alone, Dunwody, for a time lost in moody silence, at length broke out into a peal of laughter. "Well, human nature is human nature, I suppose. I make no comment, further than to say that I consider all the lady's fears were groundless. She has been well treated. There was no need to call for my aid. The army is hard to defeat, Captain, and always was!"
"Fie, fie, Jeanne! In time we shall be away from here." "Madame, I like it not this house. Something here is wrong. We must fly!" "But, Jeanne, I am helpless. We must wait, now." All that night and till morning of the next day they waited, alone, Dunwody not appearing, though continually old Sally brought up proofs of his solicitousness.
A strong man a strong one; and a heedless." "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually. "What a man's party is in these days," was his answer, "is something hard to say. A man like Dunwody is pretty much his own party, although the Bentonites call him a 'soft Democrat. Hardly soft he seems, when he gets in action at the state capital of Missouri yonder.
I should find it difficult to carry forward my literary work without her able assistance. It is a boon which even few public men have shared with myself. You know, I am in the West in view of certain writings." He virtuously sat erect, with a fine air, presently pushing back his chair. Dunwody looked from one to the other in perplexity.
Into his soul there had flashed the swift conviction that never in his life had he seen a woman so beautiful as this. Yet all he could do was to smile and bow adieu. "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.
"I'll just walk with you down the road," he answered. "We walked up it, once, together." They followed on, after the coach had passed down the driveway, Dunwody now moody and silent, his head dropped, his hands behind him, until the carriage pulled up and waited at the end of the shut-in at the lower end of the valley.
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