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He had started in search of her two years before, with no other clue as to her whereabouts than the knowledge that she had sailed for America with a man named Ferriss " "What?" cried Max. "Was the name Archibald Ferriss? That was the name of the man who died in the Denver lazaretto "
They lost all consciousness of the lapse of time; sensation even of suffering left them; the very hunger itself had ceased to gnaw. Only Bennett and Ferriss seemed to keep their heads. Then slowly the end began. For that last week Bennett's entries in his ice-journal were as follows: "November 29th Monday Camped at 4:30 p.m. about 100 yards from the coast.
They were not the first men to do violence for the sake of the principle of non-resistance. One can see, too, that modern Quakerism has taken a gentler tone. The small violence done by Abraham Wing and Benjamin Akin, like that of young Ferriss to prevent the robbery of the Merritt store, was ineffective. But the Quaker mode of self-protection was more effective than violence.
The very contingency he had fought so desperately to avert and for which he had sacrificed Ferriss Lloyd's care of so perilous a disease behold! the mysterious turn of the wheel had brought it about, and now he was powerless to resist. "Oh!" he cried, "have I not enough upon my mind already Ferriss and his death? Are you going to make me imperil your life too, and after I have tried so hard?
But this meeting with Lloyd and the intense excitement of those few moments by the canal had quite driven from Bennett's mind the fact that he had not forwarded his present address either to Ferriss or to his doctor. He had so intended that morning, but all the faculties of his mind were suddenly concentrated upon another issue. For the moment he believed that he had actually written to Dr.
"Seventy-four-fifteen," answered Bennett without looking up. "Seventy-four-fifteen," repeated Ferriss, nodding his head; "we didn't make much distance yesterday." "I hope we can make as much to-day," returned Bennett grimly as he put away his observation-journal and note-books. "How's the ice to the south'ard?" "Bad; wake the men."
Still, she had not indulged herself to any great extent since Miss Ferriss departed, having bent all her efforts towards finding work, and now that there was employment in prospect she thought she had earned the right to a little relaxation. Gaiety was all about her, the very air of this holiday place held the suggestion of it like a pervading perfume.
Lloyd sent word to the doctor by the housekeeper that she had arrived, and on going up found Pitts waiting for her at the door of the sick-room, not that which had been occupied by Ferriss, but another the guest-chamber of the house, situated toward the rear of the building. "Why, I expected Miss Douglass!" exclaimed the doctor in a low voice as soon as his eye fell upon Lloyd.
As Bennett stood there looking about him, one hand upon the foot-board of the bed, a strange, formless oppression of the spirit weighed heavily upon him. He seemed to see upon that naked bed the wasted, fever-stricken body of the dearest friend he had ever known. It was as though Ferriss were lying in state there, with black draperies hung about the bier and candles burning at the head and foot.
It was a terror that had gripped him close and that could not be reasoned away. But Ferriss? What of him? Now it had brusquely transpired that his life, too, hung in the balance. How to decide? How to meet this abominable complication wherein he must sacrifice the woman he so dearly loved or the man who was the Damon to his Pythias, the Jonathan to his David?
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