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An exclamation escaped him. He had drawn Mrs. Greyson backward, and for a brief instant, held her in his strong clasp. It was an accident which to mere acquaintances might mean nothing; to lovers, every thing.
Herbert then led Capitola out and placed her upon her own pony, Gyp, which, to her unbounded astonishment, she found there in charge of Wool, who was also mounted upon his own hack. Herbert Greyson threw himself into the saddle of a third horse, and the three took the road to Hurricane Hall.
"Yes, I see what they are, and it seems to me perfectly natural that you should have them!" "Humph!" said Traverse, looking at Herbert with an expression that seemed to say that he thought the wits of his friend deranged. "Traverse," said Major Greyson, "did it never occur to you that you must have other relatives in the world besides your mother?
Half an hour after we arrived, a dozen of them took possession of the bench on the bank of the river, one with his banjo who played and sang delightfully. Old Mrs. Greyson, who is rather eccentric, called, "Ah, Mr. J ! Have you heard already of the arrival of the young ladies? You never serenaded me!"
Then with a sudden movement she went to her husband's desk and took up a picture of her boy, a beautiful, manly little fellow of three years, of whom Philip was especially fond. Crossing to her cousin, she put the picture in his hand, at the same time turning up the electric light behind him. "See," she said, with feminine adroitness. "I don't think I've shown you this picture of Greyson."
The General immediately wrote the desired order and passed it to the young officer. Herbert bowed and was about to retire from the room, when he was called back by the General, who placed a packet of letters in his hand, saying that they had arrived among his despatches, and were for the prisoner, to whom Major Greyson might as well take them at once.
It is my baby and God sent it. I shall call her Ann cuz you've been right good to me you sholy have." So it was "lil' Ann" and, since the strange reticence and misunderstood joyousness remained, Lois Ann, at her wit's end, believing that death or insanity threatened, went secretly to the Greyson house to confess and get assistance. Peter was away with Jed. The two hung together now like burrs.
This little incident had passed without attracting attention from any one except Capitola, who, sitting on the other side of Herbert Greyson, had heard the little passage of words between him and her uncle, and had seen the latter start up and go out, and who now, turning to her companion, inquired: "What is the meaning of all this, Herbert?" "It means Satan! And now attend to what is going on!
Bill Ezy and the men who had escaped injury mounted guard over the prisoners. Thus they all remained until sunrise, when the Major, attended by the Deputy Sheriff and half a dozen constables, arrived. The night ride of several miles had not sufficed to modify the fury into which Old Hurricane had been thrown by the news Herbert Greyson had aroused him from sleep to communicate.
"It isn't going to be the Daily This and the Daily That and the Weekly the Other all combined to down me. I'm going to tell the people that it's Carleton and only Carleton Carleton here, Carleton there, Carleton everywhere, against them. I'm going to drag him out into the open and make him put up his own fists." Joan undertook to sound Greyson.
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