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Updated: June 23, 2025
Here was a contingency which none had reckoned upon. One glance at those dark, cruel faces warned all three that these prairie outcasts had been silent witnesses of everything that had taken place. It was a supreme moment, and the deadly pallor which had assumed a leadenish hue on Lablache's face told of one who appreciated the horror of that silent coming.
Whilst "Poker" John was the picture of florid tanning While his face, although perhaps a trifle weak in its lower formation, was bold, honest, and redounding with kindly nature, Lablache's was bilious-looking and heavy with obesity. Whatever character was there, it was lost in the heavy folds of flesh with which it was wreathed.
He merely wished to establish a suspicion in the mind of the officer. Time and necessity might develop it, if it suited Lablache's schemes that such should occur. In the meantime he knew he could direct this man's actions as he chose. The calm superiority of the money-lender was not lost upon his companion. Horrocks was nettled, and showed it. "But you'll pardon me, Mr. Lablache.
A messenger's jest come up to say he's 'hustled' all our horses from Lablache's stable, and the old man himself's in trouble. Come over to that bluff yonder, the messenger's there. He's one of Lablache's clerks." The police-officer was dumbfounded, and permitted himself to be conducted to the bluff without a word.
It had become such a custom for him lately to be out all the evening that she had long ceased her childhood's custom of saying "Good-night" to him before retiring to bed. One thing was certain, she felt her uncle's strange behavior this morning was in some way due to Lablache's visit. She meant to find out what that visit meant.
What woman, or, for that matter, man, can refrain from listening when they hear two people talking about them. The window was open; Jacky paused and listened. Lablache's thick voice lolled heavily upon the brisk air. "She is a good girl. But don't you think you are considering her future from a rather selfish point of view, John?" "Selfish?"
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