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I am tired; I cannot play with you this evening." "I won't give it you until you guess what it is." Hamish was evidently in no mood for play. Annabel danced round and about him, provokingly eluding his grasp. He caught her suddenly, and laid his hands upon hers. With a shriek of laughing defiance, she flung something on the floor, and four or five sovereigns rolled about. It was Hamish's purse.
She felt it keenly, Oh, that she could have told him the truth! But this she dare not, for Hamish's sake. He took her hand in his, and gazed searchingly into her face. "Constance, you know what you are to me. This unhappy business has been as great a trial to me as to you. Can you deny to me all knowledge of its mystery, its guilt?
The recollection of that dead Indian, lying on his face in the woods miles to the north of them, and the doubt whether or not he belonged to this party, and the sense of vengeance suspended like a sword by a hair, all impinged very heavily on Hamish's consciousness, and in his own phrase he had to harry himself to sleep.
"Come, Hamish," said Stuart, rising, "you must be off; some Indian might find the horse." Hamish's eyes filled with tears, to leave Odalie and Sandy without a word! He could not endure for the men to see these tears, although they thought none the less well of him for them. "Let me drop a tear in farewell for Odalie," he said, trying to be very funny, brushing his right eye with his right hand.
I had been thinking it over, and came to the conclusion that if it had come from Arthur, Hamish must have done it for him. In the impulse of the moment, I put the question to him Had he done it to screen Arthur? And Hamish's answer was a mocking one." "A mocking one!" repeated Mr. Channing. "A mocking, careless answer; one that vexed me, I know, at the time.
Butterby added, "who kindly remained in the office while his brother proceeded as far as the cathedral and back again; the other clerks, Joseph Jenkins and Roland Yorke, being absent that afternoon." A deeper dye flushed Arthur's face when Hamish's name and share in the afternoon's doings were mentioned, and he bent his eyes on the floor at his feet, and kept them there.
"What other 'very bad' news can be in store for me?" "You have not seen us all," was Hamish's answer. And Mr. Channing, alarmed, now looked inquiringly at him. "It concerns Charles. An an accident has happened to him." Mr. Channing sat down and shaded his eyes. He was a moment or two before he spoke. "One word, Hamish; is he dead?"
Fortunately there chanced to be a spring branch near at hand, and the ice-cold water hurriedly dashed into the corporal's face, together with an earnest reminder of the hideous danger of death and torture by the Indians, and a sense of the possibility of escape, served to sufficiently restore him to enable him to get upon his feet, unsteadily enough, however, and with Hamish's help make his way toward the fort at a pretty fair speed.
Odalie had some smiling tears to shed for Hamish's sake, in the earnest hope that he might be as well off, and those whom she had consoled in affliction now in their prosperity sought to console her. The officers were hilarious.
But she'll understand, she'll know, and that's all I want. Of course I agreed who wouldn't for a mate at a time like that? So I lays down on my face and Red goes at me with the needles and works till he gets it done. "'There, he says when he'd reached the end of it. 'If ever anybody wants to know who died on this here reef, cap'n, there's Red Hamish's answer, he says.
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