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Updated: May 14, 2025
Gad, if I'd only been there to see it!" Willa turned a shade more white. "Who did it?" Her voice was a mere whisper. "Kearn Thode. He is pretty well cut up about the face himself, for of course Starr didn't put up his fists like a man; he threw glassware." "Oh, is he badly hurt?" Willa caught at her surprised informant's arm in sudden dread. "Is Mr. Thode " "Hello! What's the tragic idea?
"No, not to-morrow, Kearn. There is something that I must do, something I cannot put aside even even for you." "In the evening, then? I must see you to-morrow sometime! It's going to be hard enough to live through to-night!" She nodded, and, not trusting herself to speak again, turned and slipped away to meet Winnie Mason.
An unaccountable shyness, too, took possession of her at the possibility of meeting Kearn Thode beneath his sister's discerning eye, and as soon as she could courteously do so, she tore herself away from her disappointed hostess and went over the bridge to José. The cripple's fever had abated, but he was still very weak.
"No," Willa responded quietly; "I wouldn't. Not for all the world must you miss your chance to help. It's a sacred privilege, Kearn. I shouldn't wonder if all of us, men and women, will have to put our shoulder to the wheel, but if we can only help to get the world out of this hideous rut of wholesale oppression and savagery it will be gloriously worth it all.
Moreover, now that it seems inevitable that we shall get in the war ourselves, it's going to be next to impossible to get tankers at any price to bring the oil up from Mexico. But I'm only a tyro yet; Kearn Thode can give you the details far better than I can. What's become of him, by the way?" "He's out West, somewhere." Winnie ground out the stub of his cigarette.
"What?" asked the other after a pause. "Did you know about the well, too?" Kearn Thode laughed. "I'd heard of it," he acknowledged. "I wish him joy of his discovery! Is he making headway while the going is good?" "Rather! I say, it isn't bunk, is it? I mean, this Almas Perderse is the real thing, a good financial proposition?"
She turned to Kearn Thode, who drew forth a folded paper which he handed to Mason North. "It is a confession, signed and witnessed, from the forger Starr Wiley employed to manufacture that false article of adoption," he announced. "The child who died in the trapper's cabin was his own daughter and it was Willa Murdaugh who went on with Gentleman Geoff.
Kearn Thode mounted his pinto and rode out of the courtyard of the Baggott Hotel and down the Calle Rivera under a seething tropic sun.
When Winnie drove up to the road-house an hour later, a lone taxi' stood outside and a familiar figure was seated at one of the tables in the otherwise empty restaurant. As it rose he saw that the two months had brought Kearn Thode back to what he had been before the fever laid him low in Mexico. He glowed with the old health and strength, and in his eyes was the triumphant fire of achievement.
The motive which had so far actuated her on her course was temporarily laid aside and in its stead came vague scenes of the future, when she should have learned how to carry those marvelous creations with the trained ease and elegance of Angelica, and was wholly transformed from the plain, awkward creature of the Limasito days. Perhaps, when Kearn Thode came to New York
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