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'The police, I said, vaguely, but Estes shook his head. "'It is but postponing the bad quarter of an hour, he said, gently, 'and I don't think that I could put up with this sort of thing indefinitely. Moreover, it wouldn't be fair to to Betty. "'No, he went on, 'it's better to have a limit set, just as it is now for at least Balencourt will keep his word.
To take advantage of an act of youthful folly "'You forget that it is his life or mine, interrupted Estes, quietly. "'But, George, it is unthinkable. When he knows but you did tell him about Betty "'That's just it, old chap. Balencourt asked her to marry him a week ago, just before I received the first red button. "The monstrousness of the thing struck me all of a heap.
When that time comes get on a train for Denver. From Denver take another to Estes Park. That's the Rocky Mountains, and they're your destination, because that's where the horizon lives and has its being. When you get there ask for Heyl's place. They'll just hand you from one to the other, gently, until you get there. I may be there, but more likely I shan't.
I thrilled as my father told of climbing Long's Peak, the eastern sentinel of the Rockies of Estes Park, teeming with trout and game. I thought then that I had been born too late that all the big things in the world were past history. I feared then that even the Rockies would lose their wildness before I could explore them.
Then Major Beverly, who was in fact running greater risks than almost any, inasmuch as he was Clerk of the Assembly, and was betraying more of trust, after he had saluted Madam Story conferred privately with Dick Barry, and my Lord Estes, and Parson Downs, with this effect.
In half-an-hour he was out of the hills, and under the stars of Estes Park, but he saw no prospect of supper or of bed. Estes Park was large enough to serve for a bed on a summer night for an army of professors, but the supper question offered difficulties.
"You remember, of course," began Indiman, "that I went off with Estes that May evening with just an apology to you about a family affair. Really, I knew nothing; but the boy's manner struck me as peculiar, and, while the incident of the opal button was trifling in itself, I was sure that there was something behind it.
"The rest of May passed absolutely without incident, and sometimes it was difficult to believe in the reality of the contest in which we were engaged. Yet we omitted no precaution, and during the whole fortnight Estes was never for a moment out of the sight of either Crawfurd or myself.
"Well, then, it was trespass," cried Colonel Witham, wrathfully. "Who told you there were papers in the mill. Lawyer Estes didn't he knows better." "No," replied Henry Burns, "but you told the fortune-teller so." "I didn't say that," bellowed Colonel Witham, rising from his chair. But it was plain the suggestion of the fortune-teller worried him. "What did you do in there?" he added.
However, it WAS over no possible doubt about that. "'One thing I don't understand, said Crawfurd. 'There were to be three warnings, and Estes only received two of the red buttons. Whereupon Betty blushed, and drew a little package from her pocket. "'It came last night directed to George, she said, 'but I forgot to give it to him.
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