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But first, before he went, he would strive to make as sure as a man could that Brodie's crowd did not find the golden hoard. He went a second time far back into the darkness of the further cave, carrying a smoking torch as before, vanishing from Gloria's eyes. She was alone; nothing stood between her and the cave's mouth; she was free to go! He must have thought of that.
"There, I must stop. "Lovingly, "District Nurse." The letter of the District Nurse reawakened all Gloria's interest in the street she had "discovered." She thought about it a great deal while she and Aunt Em were driven about sightseeing.
King was moving more and more slowly; his left arm swung as if it were useless; Brodie swept up his club in both hands, grunting audibly with every blow.... Oh, if she could only shoot ... if she only dared shoot! But Brodie, nimble on his feet that had been so patiently slow just now, kept King always in front of him, between him and Gloria's rifle. "I'll get you, King.
And every lost hour meant lessened chances of his killing forest meat; deer and bear and the smaller folk, if they had been caught napping, would be scurrying out of the mountains long before now; soon the solitudes would be utterly barren and empty. He went to Gloria's bed. "You'd better get up," he said briefly. "Time to start the day. While we eat I want to talk with you."
She's bad broke, but they can mend her, they said. And if she can stand the mending, what a time it will be for her!" Gloria's eyes opened wide with astonishment. Rose smiled. It was a smile that almost made her face look girlish. "It does seem awful to talk that way, but it's the truth. Just think of it! Sal never had anything nice to eat!
Why, then, Gratton and Brodie and their crowd, after all! He glowered angrily toward the faint smudge of smoke. Then he swung about and came back to Gloria's side. "You saw that smoke?" he demanded. "You plan on going to them?" "Yes," cried Gloria. She sprang up and confronted him angrily. "Yes to both questions." "You know who they are, then?" "No; but that doesn't matter."
Now Gratton's voice returned to him; a strangling cry broke from his agonized soul. A hand, wildly outthrown, caught at Gloria's sleeve. "You, there," called Brodie, "stand aside. Unless you're wanting yours too!" Her own heart was stopping, her feet were leaded. She understood what he said she knew that it was to her that he spoke but she wouldn't believe, couldn't believe that he meant that!
While he was setting the gun aside he felt Gloria's eyes upon him. During the night and now, during this inventory, he had been granted both ample time and cause for his decision. He addressed her with prompt frankness. "Inside fifteen minutes we've got to be on our way out. As we go we'll look for the horse. But, find it or not, we're going." She lay looking up at him thoughtfully.
His first impulse upon him, strengthened by Gloria's helplessness, he took her into his arms, holding her close to him. "Why did you leave me?" asked Gloria petulantly. "So long." He had been away from her fifteen minutes while he cut an armful of fir-boughs, and thereafter filled and lighted his pipe and to Gloria the time had seemed long!
Her laugh ran on in a little silver stream, and people plodding up and down the sidewalks turned and laughed in sheer sympathy. "It feels so good to get back!" Gloria cried. "As if I had been a long way off. Why doesn't somebody point out the 'sights'? That big stone building, now " "The library," said Uncle Em, and again Gloria's sweet-toned laugh rippled out. "I don't care, it looks different!
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