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Then Harkness, taking the chiding and jeers of all his companions good-naturedly, and giving them precisely the same excuses that he had given to Eliza, started for Quebec. What was more remarkable, he actually brought back the old preacher with him brought him, or rather led him, to the Harmon house, for the old man was seemingly quite passive.
I never feared death, except as it might bring trouble to others, and for long years I coveted it; but I fear the death of Grace Hilland beyond anything in this world or any other. As her father, you now shall learn the whole truth;" and he told his story from the evening of their first game of whist together. "Strange, strange!" muttered the old man. "It's the story of Philip Harkness over again.
"Wu try," said the Chinaman, grave as a yellow image instantly. "Then go to the living room and tell Mr. Gainor and Sheriff Minter that Mr. Harkness is waiting for them outside and wishes to see them on business of the most urgent nature. It will only be the matter of a moment. Now go. Gainor and the sheriff. Don't forget."
"And," she said suddenly, at the end of it, "here IS my husband." Harkness followed the direction of her glance, and looked upon a man in English Court-dress coming towards them. "Ah!" he said, in a peculiar, dull voice, "that is your husband?" She was smiling upon the man who approached, beckoning to him to come with her eyes, as women sometimes do.
"Better than a circus," declared Baldwin. "Wouldn't miss it. Since old man Harkness died, I ain't heard cussing to match up with Larrimer's. Didn't know that he had that much brains." It seemed that the fates were surely against Terry this day. Yet still he determined to dodge the issue.
Harkness was known to be a new-comer who lived with his wife and only daughter on the other side of Skinners Pass.
But, though Beryl and Robin pressed, Dale refused and slipped away and Robin had a moment's picture of the triumph of the "horrid" girl when she saw Dale come into the meeting. Then, remembering the plight of the Rileys' she was ashamed of herself for not wanting Dale to go. Sitting around the centre table she and Beryl ate sandwiches while Harkness and Mrs. Lynch and Mrs. Williams sipped coffee.
It was a most dreadful night for everyone in the Manor except Percival Tubbs, who had slipped quietly to the station and taken the evening train to New York. Harkness sat outside of Robin's door, his ear strained for the slightest sound within. And Mrs.
"Nothing?" exclaimed Mrs. Pratt. "Sue Harkness, don't you dare say that! Why, it means that I'll have a real home to-night for my children we'll be jest as comfortable as we were before the fire! I don't believe any woman ever had such good neighbors before!" Long before dark the house was finished, as far as it was to be finished that day.
"Oh, shucks!" said Jud, embarrassed by such praise. "There's lots of us I don't think we've done so awful well. But it does look kind of nice, don't it?" "It's going to be a beautiful house," said Mrs. Pratt. "And to think of what the place looked like yesterday! Well, Jud Harkness, I haven't any words to tell you what I really think, and that's all there is to it!"
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