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Updated: June 4, 2025
Haight's card-party the large sunny room with its outlook upon marsh and hill was filled promptly at two o'clock; for the word had flown about town that Minerva Haight was on the war-path and that the scalp she pursued was Isabel Otis's. The President, as she rapped for order, betrayed no ruffling of the humorous imperturbability that had made her a power in Rosewater. Mrs.
We have been engaged for nearly two years." "But he don't consider himself as engaged!" The words were almost out of Haight's mouth, but he shut his teeth against them and kept silence he hardly knew why. "Suppose Vandover were out of the question," he said, getting up and smiling in order not to seem as serious as he really was. "Ah," she said, smiling back at him.
And now they say it's gone ... that Haight's gambled ... spent it on women ..." Sherman tried to quiet her and was beset by others. "How's your bank?" people shouted at him. "How's Lucas-Turner?" "Sound as a dollar," he told them; "come and get your money when you please; it's there waiting for you." But his heart was heavy with foreboding as he entered his own bank.
Haight caught his friend's searching gaze, and for a moment they looked at each other without speaking. There was no mistaking the fearful grief that smouldered behind Haight's dull, listless eyes. For a moment Vandover thought of Turner Ravis. But even if she had turned him off, that alone would not account for his friend's fearful condition of mind and body.
There was a corresponding leer on Haight's face, as he replied with a peculiar grimace, "You've had your orders; if you are particularly anxious to give anybody an extra warning, go ahead!"
A few moments later the three started down the road, and Lyle heard Haight's final instructions to them: "Get onto what those fellows are about, if you have to stay till morning, and if you want any help, send Jake back."
Meanwhile Houston was deeply interested in the private meeting held in Haight's little dingy room, as he felt certain that some issues were being discussed and decisions reached that would, in their results, be of the greatest importance to him, and he awaited the reappearance of the general manager and secretary with considerable expectancy.
He knew that young Haight would not prosecute him for the dishonesty; he traded upon Haight's magnanimity; he only felt glad that he had the fifty dollars. But by this time Vandover did not even wonder at his own baseness and degradation. A few years ago this would have been the case; now his character was so changed that the theft seemed somehow consistent.
For example, what is the true secret of Maverick's hatred toward you, of Haight's enmity, except that they recognize by a sort of instinct that you belong to an altogether different sphere from that in which they move?
To Houston, constantly on the alert for danger signals, Haight's hurried and excited manner was the first indication of approaching trouble. It was evident that the company had received some inkling of impending danger, but of the extent of their information, or the nature of their communications with Haight, he had no means of ascertaining.
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