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The increased speed was all too slow for the rapid thought and deadly anxiety of the girl, but she was too good a horsewoman to press the willing beast beyond a rational gait. The hardy mare "propped" jerkily as she passed down the sharp side of a dried-out slough. She plunged through a thicket of long grass, and a grey cloud of mosquitoes rose and enveloped horse and rider.
She made out that the trolley-car stopped jerkily, and she saw a policeman breaking his way through the instantly condensing crowd, while the traffic came to a standstill, and people stood up in automobiles or climbed upon the hubs and tires of wheels, not to miss a chance of seeing anything horrible. Mary tried to get through; it was impossible.
Her words came jerkily: "Of course I didn't. I only kept my door locked because they had searched so thoroughly before. It was an humiliation I couldn't bear to face again." "You don't know," he asked, "who took that stuff from Howells; who hid it in your bureau?" The trembling of her slender body became more pronounced. She spoke through chattering teeth: "Bobby! Why do you ask such things?
He answered her jerkily in a strangled voice that was like the snarl of a beast. "Yes I am mad. If you try to run away from me now I won't answer for myself." She gazed at him with widening eyes. "But, but " she faltered "I I don't understand. Oh, Nick, you frighten me!" It was the cry of a child, lost, bewildered, piteous.
Larry's head moved slightly; his faded eyes opened. Dan stooped in awkward embarrassment until his face was close to Larry. "I come to ask you " Dan stopped. The muscles of his thick neck moved jerkily "to ask you, Mouse, before to forgit the damn mean things I done to you, Mouse." Larry made no answer; he kept his failing sight fixed on Dan. After a long wait Sullivan spoke again.
But when he seated himself near her, she did venture a fleeting glance at him, and was amazed unspeakably by what she saw. For his face was haggard and drawn like the face of a sick man, and every hint of arrogance was gone from his bearing. He looked beaten. He began to speak at once, jerkily, unnaturally, almost as if he also were embarrassed.
He spoke hastily, jerkily, as a man not sure of himself. "No doubt his life was Government property, and he had no right to risk it. Still he did it, and I am weak-minded enough to be grateful. My own life may be worthless; at least, it was then. And I would not have survived my Goorkhas. But he saved them, too. That, odd as it may seem to you, made all the difference to me."
"Will you shake hands" his lip quivered, the words came out jerkily "and let the past die." He held out his hand. Her pale face grew paler, her eyes so dark, rested immovably on his, her hands remained clasped in front of her. He heard a sound and turned. That boy was standing in the opening of the curtains.
"I should think YOU could do all sorts of things.... "What ought you to do?" He began to produce his knowledge of the world for her benefit, jerkily and allusively, and with a strong, rank flavor of "savoir faire." He took an optimist view of her chances. Ann Veronica listened thoughtfully, with her eyes on the turf, and now and then she asked a question or looked up to discuss a point.
And I was so happy, so relieved that I I almost ate you alive, my little sister. God, what a horrible thing it would have been if I had fired and the bullet had " She interrupted him, speaking rapidly, breathlessly in her effort to regain command of herself. "But you didn't you didn't, you see, so what is the use of worrying about it now?" She laughed jerkily.
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