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A moment later Iredale returned with the mare. The girl waited not a second. Her lover assisted her into the saddle reluctantly. He did not approve this sudden activity on the part of the girl. When she had settled herself she bent down, and their lips met in one long, passionate kiss. "Good-bye, George." The man waved his adieu. His heart was too full to speak.
And for good-a-mussey's sake go and scrub your hands. My, but girls be jades." Iredale and Prudence went off to the parlour. The game was nearly over, and the guests were laughing and chattering noisily. The excitement was intense. Leslie Grey sat aloof.
Were you thinking of starting in the business?" "That is my intention." "Is?" "Yes, is." Hervey's tone was emphatic, and his attitude truculent. "Ah! are you prepared to buy this place?" Iredale went on. "I can easily hand you over my connection." "Buy?" Hervey thought this man was dense. "Why, I haven't two cents to my name to buy anything with.
Simply that I should make no effort to fulfil my vow to the dead. I cannot marry you now." Iredale was staggered by the woeful wrong-mindedness under which he considered she was labouring. For a moment he could scarcely find words to express himself. "But but surely, child, you are not going to let this phantom of duty come between us? Oh, you can never do such a thing!
I knew there was a big fire out this way, but I never thought that Iredale was the unfortunate victim. Now I've got to go over to Lakeville to see him he's staying there, you know, since he was burnt out. I'll come back this way, and if Mrs Malling can put me up for the night, I'll be grateful. My 'plug' won't stand the journey back home. You say Hervey will be along this evening?"
Why, I owe more than five months' wages at the Northern Union Hotel in Winnipeg. It can't be done; that's all about it." Iredale looked over at the dark face opposite him. Nor could he help drawing a comparison between the man and the two ladies who owned him, one as brother, the other as son. How utterly unlike them he was in every way.
There is shortly to be a great boom in emigration from both the old country and the States, and I am now combining the business of land agent with my other duties, and I find it a paying concern. Let me know about the cattle at your earliest convenience. "Yours truly, "ROBB CHILLINGWOOD." Iredale smiled as he read the letter over. "Comes at an opportune moment," he said to himself.
But his speculations brought him to no definite conclusions, and he turned abruptly and called to his man, Chintz. The man hurried from the stable. "We have been a little delayed. Is everything ready?" Iredale looked up at the sky, then down at the grizzled face before him. Chintz nodded. "Good. Then get to work. Start the first fire directly beyond the graveyard to the east.
"The money I am going to have before I leave here to-night." "Ah! blackmail. I thought so." Iredale's contempt was biting. "Call it what you like, Mr. George Iredale. I tell you this, you are in my power and you will have to buy my silence. You like plain speaking; and now you've got it. Refuse compliance, and I leave here to expose you." "Pooh," said Iredale, leisurely turning to the window.
Her face had paled, and her heart was thumping in great pulsations. Iredale went on. He had assumed his characteristic composure. What fire burned beneath his calm exterior, it would have needed the discerning eyes of Sarah Gurridge to detect, for, beyond the occasional flashing of his quiet grey eyes, there was little or no outward sign.
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