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Give them time. They have kept asking for you." Uncle George was standing looking over at Herm again, and something of what was in his face was in Aunt Jeanne's, as she said to him "Ma fé, yes! But they are getting it hot over there. If you take my advice, George Hamon, you will muster all the men you can and have them ready." "How then?" he said quickly. "You think ?"
... I had asked her, the first chance that offered, after I got back from seeing George Hamon. We were spinning round in a double quickstep which tried even Uncle Nico's seasoned arm.
"So!" said one. "That's the end of Monsieur Martel." "Nom de Gyu! We'll hope so," said the other. "But I'd sooner seen him dead and buried." "'Crais b'en!" said the other with a knowing nod. For all the world knew that if Paul Martel had never come to Sercq, Rachel Carré might have become Mistress Hamon instead of Madame Martel and very much better for her if she had.
Martel might, indeed, have found his way there in any case, but that, to Hamon, did not in any degree lessen the weight of the fact that it was he brought him there to assist in some of his free-trading schemes. And if he had guessed what was to come of it, he would never have handled keg or bale as long as he lived rather than, with his own hand, spoil his life as he did.
They made up my little world, and Carette was the sunlight, and occasionally the lightning, and the moonlight was my mother, and the bright stars were Jeanne Falla and George Hamon, while my grandfather was a benevolent power, always kind but rather far above me, and Krok was a mystery man, dearly loved, but held in something of awe by reason of his strange affliction.
Worthington, to know why you did not make use of them in the trial instead of the expert Hamon, and that other one, Jaggerston, who, as every one knows, are professional expert witnesses, ready at all times to testify upon anything from handwriting to the velocity of a rifle bullet, providing they are sufficiently paid." "Why? Simply because I figured they would make the best witnesses."
"Go on to Jeanne Falla, you two," said my grandfather, when we came to La Vauroque, "and ask her to see to your arm, Phil. She is a famous doctor. I must see George Hamon." Aunt Jeanne cut away the sleeves of my coat and shirt, and saw to my wound with the tenderest care, and many a bitter word for the cause of it.
And behind her, at a safe distance, crouched Julie Hamon, watching Nance and L'Etat at the same time, as a cat in the shade watches a sparrow playing in the sunshine. "What will be the end? What will be the end?" sighed Nance. They had all gone down out of sight, across there, and it was terrible to sit here waiting, waiting, waiting for what she feared.
Your grandfather and George Hamon are not men to be over fearful, and they thought it well." "That is so," I said, feeling better at that. "I wonder if it is day or night, and how long we've really been in here?" "Long enough to be hungry, anyway," I said, heartily ready to eat.
But black eyes and swollen noses are impertinently obtrusive and disdainful of disguise, and the captain's battle-flags provoked no little jocosity among his men that morning. "Run up against su'then, cap'n?" asked John Hamon the engineer, who was one of the few who sided with him. "Yes, against a drunken fist in the dark. When it's sober I'm going to give it a lesson in manners."
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