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June looked twice at her before she believed her eyes. The woman took the cigar from between her lips. "Are you the children Blister Haines just married?" she asked bluntly. "We we've just been married by Mr. Haines," Bob replied with an attempt at dignity. The blue eyes of the woman softened as she looked at June softened indescribably. They read instantly the doubt and loneliness of the child.
Haines' words had driven it home to my mind, causing me to comprehend the viewpoint of this neighborhood, the hatred men felt for a nigger-stealer, and what my fate would be if once caught in the act. Yet the die was already cast; I had pledged myself to action; was fully committed to the attempted rescue of Rene Beaucaire, and no thought of any retreat once occurred to me.
Haines," said Pauline, as the finest pair of horses in the Double Cross stable whisked them along the road to the ranch. "Very little left, Miss Marvin very little left; still whoa, there! What's this?" At a bend in the road five masked and mounted men had dashed from cover and quickly surrounded the buckboard with a small circle of leveled gun-barrels.
"That girl in there is old man Cumberlan's daughter," said Daniels, "and no matter what her what Dan Barry may be, Kate Cumberland is white folks." The sheriff remembered what Vic had said of yellow hair and soft blue eyes. "Leastways," he said, "she seems to have a sort of way with the men." "Sheriff you're on a cold trail," said Haines.
Haines rushed out and across the hall, to reappear literally hauling in a stenographer by the scruff of the neck. "Here, you, take this dictation record time," he cried: "SENATOR HORATIO PEABODY, Louis Napoleon Hotel: You are going to Philadelphia to-night, I know, leaving the report on the naval base to me.
"I think it's a splendid idea, dad; just great! Won't you come, Mr. Haines? We eh I I know my father would like to have you." As he stood before his two new-found friends for such Haines now considered the Mississippian and his daughter he could not suppress feelings of surprise tinged with uncertainty.
“From letters captured with his horse, I take it he was from Corinth,” said Haines. “From those letters we learned that his name was Calhoun Pennington, that he was a lieutenant in the command of Captain John H. Morgan, a gentleman who has given us considerable trouble, and may give us more, and that he was on his way back to Kentucky to recruit for Morgan’s command.”
Briefly they told the story of the pursuit. With Haines leading they had struck a trail that took them to the river. They had waded the river and found no trail on the other side. Knowing the bandits had taken to the middle of the stream, Haines had divided his party. He sent two men down stream, one on each side and he and the three others rode up stream, two on each side.
Haines had stood up and was now leaning intently over the table. He realized the difference between the feeling he had had for Carolina and the tender emotion that thrilled him as he thought of the sweet girl before him. This time he knew he was not mistaken. He knew that he truly loved Hope Langdon. "Or in love?" he asked again, anxious at her silence. Hope looked at him slowly.
There were two chests in the room, one of which I instantly recognized as that of Roger Fairfax. The sight of this made me oblivious to all else, urged on as I was, by a desire to escape from the doomed wreck as soon as possible. "There's the chest we want Haines," I cried, pointing it out. "Have the lads back the boat up to this port; then come down, and help me handle it."
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