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Ivan heard a breath, indrawn, run round the table like a hiss, and he turned his eyes rather sharply on the girl as Sergius cried out: "Come, are you all asleep? Bottoms up to Yevgeny's success! May it fulfil his highest hopes and ours!" "Thank you, your wish is answered," came a voice from the doorway.
Dale felt the shock of it. "Ah!" he said, with a quick indrawn breath. "Yes," continued Dick, who enjoyed telling a good story, "he walked down that crowded street with that drunken, painted creature on his arm. I suppose he thought she'd fall, and hurt herself and the child. Naturally everybody looked at him, but I don't believe he even saw them.
"You'll know in a day or two. I'm going to quit my job." "I know," she said with a quick indrawn breath, "you're going away. Who's that girl I saw you talking with to-day? Is that the one?" He laughed at her for the first time. "Not by a thousand miles." "What do you mean by that? Does she live in Chicago?"
He snatched the electric torch, and together they peered at the patch from which the dried earth had fallen. "Queer for hardpan to break up like that," muttered Ronicky, cutting into the surface beneath the patch, with the point of his hunting knife. Instantly there was the sharp gritting of steel against steel. The shout of Ronicky was an indrawn breath.
I could hear the talking, and I could see the light; and I dared not go in. Father, it was Felsenburgh in that room." From beneath came the sudden snap of a door; then the sound of footsteps. Percy turned his head abruptly, and at the same moment heard a swift indrawn breath from the old woman. "Hush!" he said. "Who is that?"
He stood for a moment looking at the recess, and then, as he took a hasty step forward, he started, and a sharp hiss of indrawn breath came from his lips. A sudden sound had struck upon his ear, a grating noise, then silence, then light footsteps. In a moment Rosmore had blown out the candle, his one idea being to hide himself; fear caught him, the darkness was so great. Who was it?
"Why?" she said, but passed her hand before her face as she had done at our second meeting in the wood. "Oh, I see," she went on simply as a child. "For you it would be wrong." Then with a little indrawn laugh, "and, d'you remember, I called you lucky once at first. You who must never come here again!"
The hotel was entirely empty, the roisterers at the Prairie Home having drawn off the idlers and spectators. The barman was nodding behind the bar, the proprietor was moving about in the backyard inspecting a horse. There was a cheerful warmth everywhere, the air was like an elixir, the pungent smell of a pine-tree at the door gave a kind of medicament to the indrawn breath.
I stood near waiting for him to look, but he remained unconscious of my presence. I went to the fireside. On the mantle I noticed, for the first time, a bust of the great master whose music had just been echoing so mournfully in my ears. I took it in my hand and went nearer the light, soon as absorbed in studying the indrawn melancholy face as was my guardian over his book.
"But ye mind it came from Katherine first, marryin' wi' Larry Kildene an' rinnin' awa' wi' him," replied Jean. "It was Larry huntit her oot whaur she had been brought for safety." They both sat in silence while Ellen read the letter to the very end. At last, with a long, indrawn sigh, she spoke. "It's no like a lad that could write sic a letter, to perjure his soul. No won'er ye greet, Jean.
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