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Allan's property, had been "Eddie's room," and which had so long stood ready for his occupancy dedicated as it was to his own belongings. At last he was on the sacred soil! How fair and comfortable the old homestead looked in its setting of greening lawn and flowering garden, with the pleasant sunshine of the April afternoon over all! How cheerful how ample how homelike!
When finally they looked up it was to gaze at one another questioningly. "Those other boys," faltered Eddie's mother, "they they don't look like Eddie, do they? I mean " "No, they don't," agreed Josie. "They look older, and they have such queer-looking eyes, and jaws, and foreheads. But then," she finished, with mock cheerfulness, "you can never tell in those silly kodak pictures."
The man-size job loomed up before Eddie's dazzled eyes when he least expected it. It was at the close of a particularly hot day when it seemed to Eddie that every one in town had had everything from birch beer to peach ice cream. On his way home to supper he stopped at the postoffice with a handful of letters that old man Kunz had given him to mail.
"That job of yours don't call for any killing we can avoid," he said. "Go ahead and tie me. No use of wasting lead on two men when one will do. It's all right. I trust you, pardner." Eddie's shoulders stiffened. He stood up, looked toward the light and gripped Bud's hand. "I thought they'd be asleep what was home," he said. "We got to ride past the cabin to get out through another water-wash.
I do think so, myself." Carl said it with a spurious society manner. In Gertie's aristocratic presence he desired to keep aloof from all vulgar persons. "Of course, I think we ought to make allowances for Eddie's father, Carl, but then " She sighed with the responsibilities of noblesse oblige; and Carl gravely sighed with her. He brought a stool and sat at her feet.
Erik's laugh was something that had never ceased to hurt. Strange that Eddie's voice had never grown tired of laughing during the ten years. The ache in her heart lightened and she listened with almost a smile the ghost of another Anna smiling. It was the other Anna who had walked through youth with a joyous indifference to life, to everything but youth.
He was quite recovered and in accordance with a promise made the Doctor, was writing to Mr. Allan at that moment. "Did Eddie's letter come too?" Mrs. Allan asked, as she finished the one in her hand. Without a word, her husband handed it over to her.
In front of the men's quarters he drew rein again and shouted Eddie's name. Shorter came to the door. "Get your six-shooter an' a rifle, an' come on over to the office. I want to see you a minute."
Byrne fired again, and this time he had the satisfaction of seeing a brown body rise, struggle a moment, and then roll over once upon the grass before it came to rest. "I reckon we'll stay here," said Billy, looking ruefully at Eddie's horse. Eddie rose and as he did so he staggered and grew very white. Billy dismounted and ran forward, putting an arm about him.
It was taken for the most part in silence, Eddie's attention being largely taken up with his team. Also Nora noted that he seemed to feel the cold more than she did, as he kept his coat collar turned up all the way. She herself was so occupied with her thoughts that she had no sense of either time or distance. At last they came in sight of a house such as she had never seen.
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