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She greeted me graciously, with that queenly air of all great ladies. "'Where is your father? I asked, as she laid off her dust-coat. "'He's in New York, said she. 'I'm traveling alone. "'And where have you been all this time? "'In Europe, mainly; Rome, Naples, Cairo, India, St. Petersburg, London all about, in fact. Father took me abroad the day after Thanksgiving you remember?
Get into your hat and dust-coat!" was now heard, in Arthur's voice, from the drive to the left of the lawns. Hiram's glance shifted to the direction of the sound. Arthur was perched high in a dogcart to which were attached two horses, one before the other. Adelaide did not like to leave her father with that expression on his face, but after a brief hesitation she went into the house.
Delighted with the idea that I was capturing so famous a criminal, I redoubled my efforts and came up with him, panting. He was wearing a light dust-coat. I seized it in my hands. "I've got you at last!" I cried; "Colonel Clay, I've got you!" He turned and looked at me. "Ha, old Ten Per Cent!" he called out, struggling. "It's you, then, is it? Never, never to you, sir!"
When she was in her bedroom she shut the door and sat down just as she was, with a veil over her face, the collar of her dust-coat turned up, her shining hair dishevelled by the angry hands of the gale. A lamp was burning on the dressing-table, upon which, very oddly arranged, stood a number of silver things, brushes, bottles, boxes, which were usually in the dressing-room.
"But isn't there some other way?" faltered the high-pitched voice. In the brief pause that followed, Stratton dragged his lids open. He was lying where he had fallen at the curve in the trail. Tex Lynch stood close beside him. A little beyond, leaning against the rocky cliff, was a bulky figure in a long dust-coat.
The ill-fitting dust-coat masked the outline of the figure; the cap was so low on the head that the ears were covered. "No," she said, at last, "I think not." With that, Orme sought to reassure himself. They were in Lincoln Park now. Over this same route Orme and the girl had ridden less than twenty-four hours before. To him the period seemed like a year.
He wore the insignia of a captain under his dust-coat and the distinguishing marks of a very famous division of the A. E. F. "It's a buster!" he declared. "There's a paper sailing like a kite over the roof of the old mill " Ruth sprang up with a shriek. She ran to the back door by which Tom had just entered and tore it open. "Oh, do shut the door, deary!" begged Aunt Alvirah.
I got some tools out of the tool-box and began to take the pipe down. "Hadn't you better take your dust-coat off, man?" said Berry. "No, thank you, sir." Berry turned to Lord Brethe, who had come to watch the operation. "All this comes through letting my young brother-in-law play about with the car," he explained airily. "No, really?" said Lord Brethe. "Yes," said Berry.
J. Wallingford Speed came stumbling up the steps and into the arms of his friends, the tails of his dust-coat streaming. "Really? This is more than I expected," he gasped; then turning, doffed his straw hat to the half-revealed figures beyond the light, and cried, gayly: "Thank you, gentlemen! Thank you for missing me!" "Yow ee!" responded the cowboys. "How do you do, Miss Chapin!"
Out of the car a conspicuous affair of a strong yellow colour, and hitherto unseen in the town descended a figure in a dust-coat, a figure upon which Miss Edith Austin had never set eyes before. Pausing by the rosebush she looked toward the scene at the gate, and her face relaxed into an expression of alert interest. The camera clicked unnoticed.
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