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"Bah! you will have plenty of time, monsieur," replied the hotelier, uncorking the bottle, "the boat will not leave this hour." "But who will give me notice?" said the poet. "Your fellow-traveler," replied the host. "But I scarcely know him." "When you hear him departing, it will be time for you to go." "Is he going to Belle-Isle, likewise, then?"
"It may not be True, and if it is True it may be for the Best." The English Tourist made no Response, fearing that his Fellow-Traveler might be In Trade. She was very Pale, up to a certain Point. Pausing about six feet from the English Tourist she looked resolutely at a Knot-Hole in the Floor and said: "Beefsteakliverhamand."
His host in the town, a prosperous shopkeeper, invites him to dinner, and at the table he meets the mistress of the house, a tall, handsome Paraguayan woman, who receives him and his fellow-traveler with polished courtesy. She belongs to the class of the posterity of the old Spanish colonists.
That I had said something, in the act of waking, I felt sure: the hoarse stifled cry was still ringing in my ears, even if the startled look of my fellow-traveler had not been evidence enough: but what could I possibly say by way of apology? "I hope I didn't frighten you?" I stammered out at last. "I have no idea what I said. I was dreaming."
She began to look very old and pale, my poor fellow-traveler, and said that she felt dizzy, going so fast. Presently the friendly red-cheeked young brakeman came along, bringing the carpet-bag and other possessions, and insisted upon taking the alarmed cat beside, in spite of an aggressive paw that had worked its way through the wicker prison. Mrs.
I was obliged to turn my face away and look out of the window, because I knew the man with the kind face saw the tears well up into my eyes. The poor woman did not travel far with us. She left the train after a few stations were passed. Our fellow-traveler got out before her to help her on to the platform. He stood with bared head while he assisted her, but she scarcely saw him.
Even if I succeeded in overpowering Garvin's gun-man, there was still his ally to reckon with. However, neither thing happened. Curt Dawson, merely laughed in his indolent fashion and jerked his horse back in its haunches, sliding from the saddle as he did so. His fellow-traveler had now reinforced him and the two of them came over and faced me.
This was easily done. They had both seen the same two men walking backward and forward, opposite the front gate of the cottage. Before the advancing fog made it impossible to identify him, Mr. Sarrazin had recognized in one of the men his agreeable fellow-traveler on the journey from London. The other man a stranger was in all probability an assistant spy obtained in the neighborhood.
We had been gradually passing through different strata of atmosphere in our journey upward, the changes in the character of the vegetation kept pace with the change of the climate. "Whose is that estate inclosed by such an antiquated looking stone wall?" I inquired, of a fellow-traveler. "That belongs to Don Isidoro; and it extends some thirty leagues," was the reply. "You see that ridge of hills.
The sparkling points of it glistened brightly on the shaggy coats of Brutus and Cassius, as they idled about the yard, waiting, with steaming mouths and slowly wagging tails, to see the cart drive off. Old Mazey went out alone and used his influence with Dawkes, who, staring in stolid amazement, put a leather cushion on the cart-seat for his fellow-traveler.
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