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There were no pistols to be found. The old lady did not add, indeed, that thers was nothing of any kind to be found belonging to the same worthy. "There! That's enough!" said old Hinkley. "Did you find anything of Stevens's, Mrs. Hinkley?" inquired Mr. Calvert. "Nothing, whatever." "Well, madam," said Calvert, "your search, if it proves anything, proves the story of Ned Hinkley conclusively.
In her sight it was a duel only bad enough as a duel but still only a duel, where the parties incurring equal risks, had equal rights. But the conception of the affair, as it occurred to old Hinkley, was very different. "Base serpent!" he exclaimed "he has sent for the good young man only to murder him.
"If I do, I kill you," said the other. "I have no fear, Mr. Stevens," answered William Hinkley with a degree of phlegm which almost led Stevens to fancy he had to deal with a regular Trojan "I have no fear," he continued, "and if you fancy you can frighten me by this sort of bragging you have very much mistaken your man. Shoot when you please, word or no word."
William Hinkley went from the house of his father to that of his cousin; but the latter had not yet returned from that ride which he had taken in order to discover the course usually pursued by Stevens. Here he sat down to dinner, but the sister of Ned Hinkley observed that he ate little, and fancied he was sick.
A good young man in the sight of the ladies is always a more attractive person than a good old man. Dame Hinkley, though no longer young herself, remembered that she had been so, and preserved all her sympathies, in consequence, for young people.
The disappearance of Margaret Cooper was succeeded by a shriek from above a single shriek a cry of terror and despair; and in the same instant the form of William Hinkley might have been seen cleaving the air, with the boldness of a bird, secure always of his wing, and descending into the lake as nearly as it was possible for him to come, to the spot where she had sunk.
I will be there, provided with pistols for both, at any hour from three to six. I shall proceed to the spot as soon as I receive your answer. "Short and sharp!" exclaimed Stevens as he read the billet. "'Who would have thought that the YOUNG man had so much blood in him! Well, we will not balk your desire, Master Hinkley.
The heart of the young man was too full of grief, and his mind of anxiety, to suffer him to bestow the usual caresses upon her; and when, putting her down, he passed into the chamber of Ned Hinkley, the little thing went off to her mother, to complain of the neglect she had undergone. "Cousin William don't love Susan any more, mamma," was the burden of her complaint. "Why do you say so, Susan?"
And truly it seemed so, for the youth gave no sign of consciousness. She threw herself in a screaming agony upon his body, and gave herself up to the unmeasured despair, which, if a weakness, is at least a sacred one in the case of a mother mourning her only son. Old Hinkley was not without his alarms nay, not altogether without his compunctions.
I have a faith in these pistols which will content me; but we will take one of each, if that will please you better, and use which we think proper." Stevens expressed himself better pleased to keep his own. "Suit yourself as to distance," said Hinkley, with all the coolness of an unmixed salamander.
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