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It was a new doctrine for the banker one he had never been accustomed to; and yet when he thought it over, and recalled the look in the old trapper's face and the hearty humour and independence of the Clown, he felt instantly that Holcomb was right. Something else must be done for them but not money.
"An' after a while we made her see it, an' that was the first regular dress ever wore to a buryin' in Friendship, by the one that was the one. "I'll never forget when 'Leven come out o' that room, after she'd got through. We all went in Mis' Crapwell an' Mis' Toplady an' Mis' Holcomb an' I, an' some more. An' I took 'Leven back in with me.
He quoted the professor: "'Out of the occult I shall bring you the proof and the substance. It will be concrete within the reach of your senses. Isn't that what the doctor said?" "Then you believe Professor Holcomb?" "Why not? Didn't we see it? I know a deal of material science; but nothing like this. I always had faith in Dr. Holcomb. After all, it's not impossible.
It was mystery. And I believed that it was Nature. I know it now. Even as I write I can sense the potency of the force about me. Some law, some principle, some force that science has not uncovered. What is that law that shall bridge the chaos between the mystic and the substantial? I am standing on the bridge; and I cannot see it. What is the great law that was discovered by Dr. Holcomb?
Breakfast over, the four struck into the woods in single file, en route for their runways, Hite taking the lead, the old dog trotting at the Clown's heels in silence, Holcomb bringing up the rear. "Now, friend," began Hite in a low tone to Thayor, "you'd better come with me, I presume; and, Billy, we'll go slow so's you'll have time to git down to whar that leetle brook comes into Big Shanty."
With the quickness of a cat the man caught the woman in his arms, groped his way to the open, laid her prostrate body on the charred grass sprang back into the swirl and choke of the deadly gas and smoke, and the next instant reappeared with the stunned and half-conscious Holcomb on his back, his hair singed, his clothes on fire; then he tripped and fell headlong.
The two woodsmen sprang instantly to their feet; Annette screamed. The drums of Alice's ears were thumping with the beating of her heart. Holcomb reached for his rifle laying between his own and the Clown's pack, and hurriedly cocked it. The old dog had already plunged ahead into the underbrush with a low growl.
She's as straight a girl as ever lived," answered Yeager in perfectly good English. Holcomb sat up straight. "Turn round, my man," he ordered crisply. The range-rider did as he was told. The light, blue-gray eyes of the officer bored into his. "You're no Mexican," charged the Texan. "No. Arizona is where I hang up my hat." "What are you, then? A spy?" "I reckon, maybeso."
Holcomb saw in him no longer the suave, trained domestic, but a man of intelligence a man with a heart and a wide experience in a world which he as yet knew but little of. "You can count on me," said Holcomb, as he straightened to his feet. Blakeman rested his gun in the hollow of his arm. "We must be going," he said, "or I shall be late for my table. Have you a short cut home in your memory?"
Never were able to arrive at an explanation?" "No." "How about the Rhamda? The Nervina? Do they come to this house?" "Not often." "How do they come in? Through the window?" He smiled rather sadly. "I don't know. At least they come. You shall see them yourself. The Rhamda still has something to do with Dr. Holcomb. Somehow his very concern tells me the doctor is safe.
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