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Updated: May 26, 2025
This idea came upon me like a flash of lightning on a dark night, making all things so clear we cannot forget them afterwards when the gloomy obscurity returns. I was still standing with the book in my hand when I heard cousin Holman's footsteps on the stairs, and as I did not wish to speak to her just then, I followed Phillis's example, and rushed out of the house.
If the benevolent Samuel Blount could have seen Wiley Holman's monthly statement from that mysterious "other bank" he would have crushed him with one blow of his ready, financial club and gone off with both bond-and-lease and option.
Maru had no idea of the sentimental view of the matter which the youngster took; and he thought that Holman's objections against the bargain were caused by the thought that no services could be rendered that would be half as valuable as the trinket. The unsentimental savage could not imagine that the unstrung lover wanted the ring as a keepsake of the girl who had won his heart on board The Waif.
"Well, you see, mother" he looked down at the floor "you're welcome to my money, if only it's certain I get it back again by the new year, so there's nothing to hinder that. But, you know, why I must have it again is is because I and Mrs. Holman's Silla have agreed to marry and settle down.
There were no signs of the girls, and I wondered, as my brain recovered from the effects of the blow, what had happened to them. Holman's voice put a question that roused me from my half stupor. "Did I kill him?" cried the young fellow. "Tell me!" The question was answered by a stream of blasphemy that came from Leith himself.
Look me up a copy of Holman's 'Diseases of the Kidneys' when you go back to town. I'll send Dollops round to the Yard to-night to get it." "Right you are," said Narkom, taking out his pocket-book and making a note of it. "But, I say, look here, my dear fellow, you can't possibly believe that it's anything of that sort anything natural, I mean in the face of what we've heard?" "No, I don't.
Holman's strict, conscientious character, and was therefore to be excused in what now took place. She went down into the cellar with the lantern one evening to fetch coal and wood, panting and puffing down the stairs as she used to do; she had a bend in both hips from rheumatism, and rocked from one side to the other like a boat's mast in rough weather.
But Holman's struggles ceased then, and his head fell backward. The pain of his leg had made the plucky youngster swoon away, and with a prayer upon my lips I sprang again at the bulwark of vicious creepers. I have a very vague recollection of the remainder of that trip.
The mad hunger for notoriety evidently blinded him to the dangers which would have been perceptible at any other time, and Holman's remarks had not improved his temper. "Come, come, Edith!" he entreated. "We must get along. You hear what Mr. Leith says? There is no danger. A rope will be put around your waist, and an accident will be impossible."
A chuckle came from a boulder beside the track, and Holman's cheery voice set my pulses beating. "You frightened the dickens out of me, Verslun," he cried. "I thought you were one of the evil legion. Gee! I'm glad to see you." "How did you get out?" I gasped as we rushed on together. "I thought I left you in the cavern." "It was a good job you didn't," he retorted.
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