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You must be mad now, I think, to kneel there and tell me all these details so calmly, and in such a matter-of-fact way. Do you realize what a monstrous thing you have been doing?" And Dr. Eben's eyes blazed with a passionate indignation, as he stopped short in his excited walk and looked down upon Hetty.
He had not even referred to the men searching the river for the missing girl, neither did he speak of the conversation that had taken place between his father and the man in the small boat. All this was puzzling to the captain, for it was very unlike Eben's usual manner. Was it possible that the boy knew anything about the matter, or had a hand in the affair himself? he wondered.
"Honor my benefactor? I don't understand." The old man shook his lion-like head and, out of the parchment of his bony face, his eyes burned grimly. "This house this farm all of it we have only by the sufferance of Eben's generosity, and yet I've heard men call him close." Conscience thought that she had lost the possibility of being stunned, but now she sat speechless as her father continued.
He hasn't said anything. But but he and uncle have quarreled, just a little. I didn't tell you, but they have. And I think I know the reason. Nat is Uncle Eben's idol. If the quarrel should grow more serious, I believe it would break his heart. I couldn't bear to be the cause of that; I should never forgive myself." "You the cause? How could you be the cause of a quarrel between those two?
He did not in the least share his friends' hostility to the handsome, young, and energetic physician who was so plainly soon to be his successor in the county. "Ah, Squire!" he said, "you forget how old you and I are. It is nearly my time to pass on, and make room for a younger man. Eben's a good doctor. I'd rather he'd have the circuit here than anybody I know."
We must stop this," muttered Parker. Mrs. Coffin, who began to comprehend what was coming, looked fearfully at Nat and the girl. "No, I ain't wanderin', neither," declared the old Come-Outer fretfully. "I'm sane as ever I was and if you try to stop me I'll Gracie, your Uncle Eben's v'yage is 'most over. He's almost to his moorin's and they're waitin' for him on the pier. I I won't be long now.
Oh Hetty, Hetty, wife, what does this all mean? Who took you away from me?" And tears, blessed saving tears, filled Dr. Eben's eyes. Now began the retribution of Hetty's mistake. In this moment, with her husband's arms around her, his eyes fixed on hers, the whole cloud of misapprehension under which she had acted was revealed to her as by a beam of divine light from heaven.
"Oh, it isn't likely you'd find anything now." said Eben, with a sneer. "Why not?" "He has had plenty of time to put 'em away." "I am willing to have my mother's house searched," said Herbert, promptly. "Oh, they ain't there!" said Eben, significantly. "Where are they, then?" Eben's answer took Herbert and his lawyer, and the judge himself, by surprise.
It is quite possible that stamps and money have been stolen, but, if so, it is your false friend and accuser who is guilty." Of course Herbert had to tell his mother what had happened. She was agitated and alarmed, but became calmer when Herbert told her what was Eben's probable motive in making the charge. "How can he behave so shamefully!" exclaimed the indignant parent.
"But you mustn't do it. It would be murder, and you would be hung." A grim smile overspread Eben's face, as he stepped back, and folded his arms. "Well, then, s'pose you kill him," he suggested. "He tried to kill you, so it's better fer you to do it first." "No, no," the woman protested. "There must be no killing here. Get up, Gabe," she ordered, touching her husband with her foot.
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