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Updated: June 27, 2025
In the handsome youth who returned two years afterwards with Captain Durbin to Boston, and who walked so proudly at his side, leading Emily by the hand, few could have recognized the wild boy of that western Island. Such was the transformation which the spirit of love, breathing itself through the lips of a little child, had effected. "Verily, of such" children "is the kingdom of heaven."
"And just at the point where the cushions invite rest, as the colonel so suggestively puts it in his strange puzzle of a confession," added the district attorney. "Replace the old seat," ordered the major, "and let us make sure of this." Ready hands at once grasped it, and, with some effort, I own, drew it carefully back into position. "You see!" quoth Durbin. We did.
I marveled, still feeling myself in the dark, still clinging to my faith in womankind, still asking to what depths her sister had followed her in the mazes of crime we were forced to recognize but could not understand. Durbin had no such feelings and no such scruples, as was shown by the sarcastic comment which now left his lips. "So!" he cried, "we have to do with three criminals instead of two.
A group of men were already congregated about him in his small office, and when, on being admitted, I saw amongst them the district attorney, Durbin and another famous detective, I instinctively knew what matter was under discussion. I was allowed to remain, possibly because I brought news in my face, possibly because the major felt more kindly toward me than I thought.
But he found it more difficult than he had supposed it would be to preserve this resolution, for he was subjected to the action of a more potent influence than any he had yet encountered kindness. All were ready to show him this in its common forms, but none so touchingly or so tenderly as the little Emily Durbin.
"When we want you again, we will let you know. Durbin, see Mr. Gelston out." I was left alone with the major and the district attorney. There was a moment's silence, during which my own heart beat so loud that I was afraid they would hear it. Since taking up Miss Tuttle's cause I had never really believed in Mr.
I felt the need of advice in this crisis, yet hesitated to ask it. My cursed pride and my no less cursed jealousy of Durbin stood very much in my way at this time. A week had now passed since the inquest, and, while Miss Tuttle still remained at liberty, it was a circumscribed liberty which must have been very galling to one of her temperament and habits.
"I am quite sure of it." "Why didn't you follow the man?" grumbled Durbin. "It wasn't my business. He was a stranger and possibly mad. I didn't know what to do." "What did you do?" "Went home and kept quiet; my wife was very ill that night and I had my own cause for anxiety." "You, however, read the papers next morning?" "No, sir, nor for many days.
This was self-evident, and my heart was heavy for Miss Tuttle, who seemed to be so deep in her brother-in-law's confidence. It grew still heavier when Durbin, joining us, added his incredulity to the air of suspicion assumed by the others.
As time passed on, and Captain Durbin kept well the promise of those words, instructing him with care and guarding him with tenderness as well as with fidelity, his faith became firm, not only in his fellow-men, but in Him who had brought such great good for him out of the darkest evil.
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