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Mechanically Hedin fell in beside him. Someone passed upon the street. "See who that was?" asked the officer maliciously, for he knew all the town gossip. Hedin scarcely heard the question. "It was McNabb's gal. Her throwin' you over fer this here Wentworth didn't give you no license to steal her old man's fur coat, all right but maybe you ain't so onlucky, at that.
Any sale or contract entered into with Orcutt or anyone else concerning title to these lands is, of course, void." Cameron continued to stare at his watch. "I do not understand it," he muttered. "I think I do," offered Hedin. "Was it Orcutt's watch you consulted?" "Yes, he laid it on the table, and we watched the hands mark off the time." "And you were an hour fast!
"With him out of the way she'll despise me!" interrupted Hedin. "She will never marry him out of loyalty to you, when she finds out he has tried to knife you. I haven't told you all I know when he falls, he'll fall hard! But I know what women think, and I know she'll despise me for disguising myself and spying on him."
Yet M. Sven Hedin concluded his argument with the words: "When it has been further established that the transport of Russian troops to Finland has greatly increased and it is affirmed that there are already about 85,000 soldiers there and when we also bear in mind that for many years past Sweden and likewise Norway have been visited by so-called knife-grinders from Russia, no doubt can remain.
An' I'm afraid it's got Jean. The lass has been rantin' about it ever since we left the railway. But who is that? Yonder, just goin' into the post? My old eyes ain't so good in the twilight." "Wentworth!" exclaimed Hedin, leaping to his feet. "Come on! The time has come for a showdown!"
Furs were to Hedin an obsession; they spoke a language he knew. He hated the grosser furs, as he loved the finer. He despised the trade tricks and spurious trade names by which the flimsiest of furs are foisted upon the gullible purchasers of "seal," "sable," "black fox," "ermine," and "beaver."
Neither had mentioned the name of Hedin in the other's hearing, but each evening at dinner, which was the only meal at which they met, the studied silence with which the girl devoted herself to her food bespoke plainer than words that the thought of him was never out of her head.
"Oskar!" cried Jean, leaping from her chair at the moment that Wentworth hurled himself upon Hedin. Her cry was drowned in the swift impact of bodies and the sound of blows, and grunts, and heavy breathing. McNabb and Cameron drew back and the bodies, locked in a clench, toppled to the floor, overturning a chair. "Oh, stop them! Stop them!" shrieked the girl. "He'll kill him!"
Ondott's wife Signy carried off all their loose property that same night to a ship and escaped with her sons Asmund and Asgrim to her father Sighvat. A little later she sent her sons to Hedin, her foster-father in Soknadal, where they remained for a time and then wanted to return to their mother. They left at last, and at Yule-tide came to Ingjald the Trusty at Hvin.
These were sailors' yarns, and where Marco Polo reports what he has seen with his own eyes, he reports with complete accuracy, nor does he ever pretend to have seen a place which he had not visited. The explorers of our own day, Aurel Stein, Ellsworth Huntington, and Sven Hedin, travelling in central Asia, have triumphantly vindicated him.
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