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"Listen!" repeated Flora, and across the curtained veranda and in at the open windows, under the general clamor, came a soft palpitating rumble. Did Hilary hear it, too? He was calling: "Adolphe, where's your man the minister? Where in the three parishes ?" and others were echoing, "The minister! where's the minister?" Had they also caught the sound? "Isn't he here?" asked Irby. He drew his watch.
"Now, lads, follow me," cried Randolph, the first officer, leaping below with his bucket and an axe in his hand. Irby and four men sprang after him. With his axe the mate cut a way to get at the heart of the fire. We handed down buckets to his companions, who kept emptying them round where he was working. The smoke was still stifling. Those below could scarcely be seen as they worked amidst it.
She cheerily smoothed the bonnet-bows under the old lady's chin: "Now, chère, you know the assets are all you care for even if with them you have to take a nincompoop for a grandson." She was laughing merrily when Irby reappeared in the crowd, motioning that he had found nothing. Her gloved hands raised in fond apology, and Hilary's absence, appeased him, and he entered the vehicle.
These Callender ladies, prompted by him and with a sweet modesty of quietness, had just armed a new field battery with its six splendid brass guns, and it was around these three Callenders that his ponderings now hung; especially around Anna and in reference to his much overprized property and two nephews: Adolphe Irby, for whom he had obtained the command of this battery, which he was to see him drill this afternoon, and Hilary Kincaid, who had himself cast the guns and who was to help the senior cousin conduct these evolutions.
"You mus' have drop' it on the stair," said grandmamma, discerning the stratagem, and glad to aid it. Problem in tactics: To hunt the glove all the way up to the balcony and return before Hilary, if he was coming, could reach Flora's side. Irby set his teeth he loathed problems and sprang up the steps. "No use," chanted Madame with enjoyment; "the other one is not coming."
Whether it was true or false Mandeville cared nothing, but "Yes, 'tis true!" he cried in Flora's face, and then to the detective "Doubtlezz to phot-ograph it that's all you want!" The detective said little, but Anna assured Flora that was all. "He wants to show it at the trial!" "Listen!" said Flora. "Here's Captain Irby!" cried Mrs. Callender Constance half a dozen, but
Anna laughed with the rest, but remembered three separate balls to which, though counted on, he had not come, she uninformed that military exigencies had at the last moment curtly waved him off, and he unaware that these exigencies had been created by Irby under inspiration from the daintiest and least self-assertive tactician in or about New Orleans.
"Senator Irby 'll come purty near gettin' de coin, wid Peytonia fer an outside chance. I see Peytonia work a mighty fast mile yesterday mornin', and I 'm jes' takin' a flyer on her to win today for luck." I glanced at the nearest blackboard Peytonia 200 to 1!!! Would they dare to lay such odds against a horse that had even the slightest chance of winning?
She winced yet smiled: "And still your cousin he's receive' no order?" Her fingers tingled to maim some one this dolt anybody! Her eyes sweetened. Irby spoke: "The order has come, but " "What! you have not given it?" "Flora, it includes me! Ah, for one more evening with you I am risking " Her look grew fond though she made a gesture of despair: "Oh, short-sighted! Go, give it him! Go!"
The day after his wedding Irby found his parole revoked and himself, with others, back in prison and invited to take the oath and go free stand up in the war-worn gray and forswear it or stay where they were to the war's end. Every man of them took it when the war was over; but until then? not one. Not even the bridegroom robbed of his bride.
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