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He had built up the fire, thawed himself out, and helped himself to food. Now, for the first time, he loosened up a bit. "I've had a devil of a chase," he said bitterly, a cold glitter in his eyes as he looked at Falkner. "I've been after you three months, and now that I've got you this accursed storm is going to hold me up! And I left my dogs and outfit a mile back in the scrub."
Viney accompanied them to the boat, waddling across the field, his hands in the armholes of his vest. He said little, but as he shoved them off in their tender, he observed: "It's the sort of day you could get lost in mighty easy." "Oh," Falkner called back cheerily, "I guess I know my way." "Well, I guess you do!"
They had their luncheon there, in the sunny circle among the firs, and spoke of their two years' separation. "And I am not going back!" Falkner cried joyously. "You have decided already?" "My chief has resigned, you know, and there is a piece of work up North here he wants me for.... But that is not all the reason!" Her face blanched.
When he bade farewell to Flora's family, he said: "Look after my precious ones, Blumenthal; and if I never return, see to it that Percival carries out all my plans with regard to George Falkner." Eight or ten weeks later, Alfred Blumenthal was lying in a hospital at Washington, dangerously wounded and burning with fever. His father and mother and Mrs.
When dinner was ready in the dining-room, a little more deliberately arranged and ornamented than usual, the two women were somewhat surprised to receive an excuse from Falkner, begging them to allow him for the present to take his meals with the patient, and thus save the necessity of another attendant. "It is all shyness, Kate," said Mrs.
"What a splendid thing it is for the young men," said one of the lady callers. "I don't see why more of the churches don't adopt the plan. I wish ours would." "Yes," chimed in another, "and isn't that Mr. Falkner, who has charge of the rooms in the evening, a splendid fellow? My brother speaks of him so highly, and all the young men seem to think so much of him." "Where is he from; St.
"As if we could bury ourselves in that swamp, we might as well stay in Torso!" Bessie said to her husband disgustedly. Falkner reflected that the train service to Bryn Mawr made it easier of access to his work than the newer residential quarter inside the city which Bessie was considering. But that was the kind of remark he had learned not to make.... In the end it came to their building.
The two lads, however, seemed resolved to do their duty in spite of anything that might occur. They had before, it appeared, heard Captain Falkner spoken of, and knew he had the character of being a just officer, though somewhat strict. It soon appeared, indeed, that he had a very unruly ship's company to deal with, and one that required a good deal of management to bring into order.
When the door at last closed on the bright, sympathetic eyes of the two young women and the motherly benediction of the elder, Falkner walked to the window, and remained silent, looking into the darkness. Suddenly he turned bitterly to his companion. "This is just h-ll, George." George Lee, with a smile on his boyish face, lazily moved his head. "I don't know!
"Aw, come off, Charleton!" exclaimed Douglas. "I've learned more dirt from you than I bet Judith ever has from Inez. Come on, let's go get the horses. Thanks for the grub, Mr. Fowler." "You are very welcome. Don't go away angry with me, Falkner. If I called you foul-minded, you called me by a foul name." "I guess we're even," agreed Charleton. "I'm obliged to you for the meal."
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