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The next day he had full confirmation of how delightful it had been. While he was going up and down the pavement in his daily occupation of taking care of Silla, he caught fragments of Mrs. Holman's remarks to the housekeeper up stairs, as they stood under the archway; he never for a moment lost sight of her tall figure. "You may well say so, Miss Damm.
If Leith knew the island, and it was evident that he had visited it before, any villainy that he contemplated would be held in check till he was ashore and in command of the expedition and I would be powerless. I recognized that Holman's fears were without solid foundation.
It's that good-looking young woman, Holman's daughter, that's ill, isn't it? 'Yes. 'It would be a pity if she was to go. She's an only child, isn't she? I'll get up, and smoke a pipe in the surgery, ready for the governor's coming home. I might go to sleep if I went to bed again. 'Thank you, you're a good fellow! and I rode back almost as quickly as I came. It was a brain fever.
Holman's cellar steps; the planks in the timber-yard shone so white in bright weather, and when it grew dark, they stood there like his oft-tried, secret friends, who could screen him from the terrors at home. He was taken to school, however, and one of his first timid, inquiring glances was to discover the thrashing-block with which Mrs. Holman had threatened him.
About him cluster legends and tales innumerable, some true, many false; but one thing is certain; for boldness, cunning and knowledge of woodcraft and Indian warfare he had no equal. Born in Pennsylvania, but moving at an early age to the little frontier settlement of Holman's Ford, in North Carolina, the boy had barely enough schooling to enable him to read and write.
Her face was brilliantly flushed; her eyes were dry and glittering; but she did not speak; her lips were set together almost as if she was pinching them tight to prevent words or sounds coming out. Cousin Holman's face expressed surprise and interest. 'Well! said she, 'who'd ha' thought it! He's made quick work of his wooing and wedding. I'm sure I wish him happy.
They moved around us in a manner that would have provoked laughter at any other time, and we watched eagerly for developments. With much care they placed us side by side on the upper part of the stone, but Holman's feet were turned to my head, and as we were placed crosswise upon the inclined surface, my body was a few inches lower than his.
The half-voiced objection to the route had stirred all the sleeping devil in him, and the big stubby fingers crooked as if certain they would be called upon to grip Holman's throat. "You'll do what?" asked the youngster coolly. "I'll bundle you back to the yacht!" screamed the giant.
Who was that that man who was lying on the dirty counter, with his necktie and shirt unfastened and one arm hanging down was it her father? "If only some one had a lancet! he moved just now a lancet!" What more they said on the steps she did not notice, except that some wanted to deny her entrance, and others again said that she was Holman's daughter.
Our feelings can hardly be described as we crept closer to the spot from which the scientist's angry protest had gone up through the silence like a thin wire. The loneliness of that day had been appalling. I know that Edith Herndon's quiet face was continually before my mental vision, while Holman's actions convinced me that he was suffering acutely.
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