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In front rode Bat Lajune with Purdy's horse snubbed to his saddle-horn, and immediately following him were the girl and Endicott riding side by side. Tex saw that the girl was crying, and that Endicott's hands were manacled, and that he rode the missing horse.
"We are content that it should take that course," cried several voices. And such, accordingly, was the disposition made of Master Endicott's sumptuary motion. "Time doth wear," said Sir Richard Saltonstall. "Were it not well to proceed to the examination of the woman?" "If no objection be offered, I will consider such to be your minds," said the Governor.
No one, therefore, was watching Endicott's movements at the moment when he ostensibly stooped to pick up the fallen card. "It is not faced," he said, "what shall we do?" "Give it to Master Lambert forsooth," quoth Mistress Endicott, "'tis unlucky to re-deal ... providing," she added artfully, "that Master Segrave hath no objection." "Nay! nay!" said the latter.
"What's the matter, Willie?" smiled Tex, as he slipped from his seat behind Endicott's saddle. "Didn't your breakfast set right?" The man rolled to face them at the sound of the voice, and such a stream of obscene blasphemy poured from his lips as to cause even the Texan to wince.
Now, it is absolutely necessary for the child's sake that you save him from Mrs. Endicott's neglect, when he is of no further use to her. She loves children, as you know." "Who are you, anyway?" Curran burst out hoarsely after a while. "Not half as good a detective as you are, but I happen in this matter to be on the inside," Arthur answered cheerfully.
Endicott took one swift step forward, his right fist shot into the man's stomach, and as he doubled forward with a grunt of pain, Endicott's left crashed against the point of his jaw with a force that sent him spinning like a top as he crumpled to the hard-trodden earth of the door-yard. "Good!" cried Alice. "It was beautifully done.
Michael had been thinking this speech out ever since the president had told him of Endicott's expected visit, but somehow it did not sound as well to him when he said it as he had thought it would. It seemed the only right thing to do when he planned it, but in spite of him as he looked into Mr. Endicott's kind, keen eyes, his own fell in troubled silence. Had his words sounded ungrateful?
Gunning knew most of them by sight, they were worthy neither of consideration nor respect, paid satellites of Mistress Endicott's, employed to keep up the good spirits of that lady's clientèle. The soldiers drove them all together before them, in a compact, shrinking and screaming group. Then the word of command was given.
Then she scrambled from her hiding-place and hurried unobserved to her tent, where she threw herself upon the blankets with a sound that was somehow very like a sob. When the breakfast of cold coffee and biscuits was finished the Texan watched Endicott's clumsy efforts to roll a cigarette.
No decision was reached at the time, but after a year of discussion the legislature was permanently separated into two houses, each with a veto power upon the other; and this was felt to be a victory for the assistants. As for the ecclesiastical polity of the new colony, it had begun to take shape immediately upon the arrival of Endicott's party at Salem.
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