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"I'll let you have six hundred thousand of it at a dollar and a half a bushel." "A dollar and a half! Why, my God, man! Oh well" Scannel spread out his hands nonchalantly "I shall simply go into bankruptcy just as you said." "Oh, no, you won't," replied Jadwin, pushing back and crossing his legs. "I've had your financial standing computed very carefully, Mr. Scannel. You've got the ready money.
Jadwin, broad-shouldered, a fresh cigar in his teeth, each rein in a double turn about his large, hard hands; Laura, slim, erect, pale, her black, thick hair throwing a tragic shadow low upon her forehead. "A fine-looking couple," commented Mr. Cressler as they disappeared. The hoof beats died away, the team vanished. Landry Court, who stood behind the others, watching, turned to Mrs. Cressler.
Nor were the everlasting hills more secure than he from the attack of any human enemy. Out of the ranks of the conquered there issued not so much as a whisper of hostility. Within his own sphere no Czar, no satrap, no Caesar ever wielded power more resistless. "Sam," said Curtis Jadwin, at length to the broker, "Sam, nothing in the world can stop me now.
Men protested jovially to Annie, girls whimpered and complained, maids delivered staggering messages into her ear. Annie frowningly yet sympathetically sent them all away, one by one; persisted that the rehearsal proceed. Never mind the hat, we could get along without the hat; never mind Dixie Jadwin, someone could read her part; never mind this, never mind that; go on, go on we must get on!
Would another, not himself, at last, seeing where so many shut their eyes, step into the place of high command? Jadwin chafed and fretted in his inaction. As the time when the house party should break up drew to its close, his impatience harried him like a gadfly. He took long drives over the lonely country roads, or tramped the hills or the frozen lake, thoughtful, preoccupied.
In the vestry room Laura stood for a moment, while one after another of the wedding party even Mr. Cressler kissed her. Of all present she was the least excited. "Here's something," vociferated the ubiquitous clerk, pushing his way forward. "It was on the table when we came out just now. The sexton says a messenger boy brought it. It's for Mrs. Jadwin." He handed her a large box. Laura opened it.
Only one function of the complicated machine persisted; but it moved with a rapidity of vibration that seemed to be tearing the tissues of being to shreds, while its rhythm beat out the old and terrible cadence: "Wheat wheat wheat, wheat wheat wheat." Blind and insensate, Jadwin strove against the torrent of the Wheat.
"That must mean Jean Bevoir!" cried Dave. "This Glotte must be another of Bevoir's rascally companions." "To be sure," put in Sanderson, "And Bevoir must mean the attack that was made on the pack-train." "I think he will rejoin Bevoir by to-morrow sure," said Tony Jadwin. "And then we may learn what has become of Sam." While one or another remained on guard during the night the others slept.
Only occasionally could Jadwin prevail upon her to accompany him. And then what preparations! Queen Elizabeth approaching her barge was attended with no less solicitude. They held anxious debates: "Do you think she'll like that?" "Wouldn't this make it easier for her?" "Is that the way she liked it last time?"
Wealthy as he was, he could have maintained an entire crew on board whose whole duty should have been to screw, and scrub, and scour. But Jadwin would have none of it. "Costs too much," he would declare, with profound gravity.
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