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You can tell her, if you want to, that I'm still his friend." It was plain to be seen that he was adopting this pitiful policy as a means of gaining the attention of the otherwise unapproachable Christine." He was up all night looking!" "For Grand?" "I didn't ask," leered the hunchback. Suddenly his eyes flew wide open. He was staring past Jenison. "Say! Speaking of angels, look behind you."
His heart was bitter. The weeks had brought him to a fuller realization of the horrid blight upon his fair name; he had come to see the wreck in all its cold, brutal aspects. The realization that he was a hunted, branded thing, with a price on his head, sank deeper and deeper into his soul. Hunted! Chased as a criminal! He, a Jenison of Virginia!
You'll find something to interest you every little while about the Jenison murder case. You see, my buck, they're still lookin' for you." "I hope it all turns out as you think, Dick," cried David fervently. He was weak with excitement. "Oh, how I long to be cleared of this awful thing! How I long for the sight of Jenison Hall! And, say, Dick!
But Ernie's emotion underwent a sudden change. Spitefulness leaped into his eyes; the wail of misery left his voice and in its place came shrill blasphemy. After he had cursed Dick and David Jenison to his heart's content he came to a standstill in front of his unhappy brother. Sticking out his lower jaw angrily he snapped: "Where's the sapphire ring you got from the feller in Charlottesville?"
It won't be necessary for you to mingle with pickpockets and roustabouts and common ring performers. There will be a select little coterie. I fancy you can guess who will comprise our little circle our set, as you might call it. There are better times ahead for you, Jenison. Your days of riding in a tableau wagon are over.
"Please don't, Tom," cried Ruby. "You would better a thousand times shoot yourself than to bring that black shadow into her life," said David. "Suicide is bad enough but ugh!" He shuddered. "Look here, Jenison, I might have been a good man if it hadn't been for Bob Grand. I always would have been a showman, I reckon, but I'd have been fairly self-respecting.
It was quite plain, from a single remark of hers, that her sympathies were with her father, although she had remained at her mother's side. "You knew my father quite well, didn't you, Mr. Jenison? He has often told me of the close friendship that existed between you in those days, how he tried to help you and how appreciative you were." David concealed his astonishment.
Instead of attempting to grasp or disarm Colonel Grand, he decided to let the situation take care of itself for the moment. Neither of the men could make a move to attack the other. "Here, I say!" gasped the Colonel. "He can shoot me down like a dog. Stop him, Jenison! Don't you see I can't protect myself?" David took advantage of the knowledge that Braddock was unarmed.
He jerked his thumb over his shoulder to indicate the narrow passage. The others looked down that filthy corridor and shuddered. "What a place!" muttered David Jenison. "Wot 'as Brad been up to to-night?" demanded Joey. Without changing his position, Dick Cronk, in as few words as possible, told them of Braddock's vigil.
Besides, he knew of the other will, dated years ago, which is in the bank at Richmond. Of course, the fraudulent will takes the place of the old one." David did not then tell her of his stealthy return to Jenison Hall two nights after his flight and before the funeral.
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