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Her curiosity once satisfied, she showed no disposition to pursue the topic. She pointed to Miss Ladd's cat, fast asleep by the side of an empty saucer. "Is it a sin, Mr. Morris, to wish I was Tom? He doesn't trouble himself about his life that is past or his life that is to come.
"Went clear through, clean as a whistle!" He tore a handkerchief into two parts, made wads, and pressing them close over the wounds he bound them there with Ladd's scarf. "Shore it's funny how a bullet can floor a man an' then not do any damage," said Ladd. "I felt a zip of wind an' somethin' like a pat on my chest an' down I went. Well, so much for the small caliber with their steel bullets.
I said, 'I have not only decided, I have learned the piece. 'And what may it be? 'The dagger-scene in Macbeth. There was a howl I can call it by no other name a howl of indignation. A man's soliloquy, and, worse still, a murdering man's soliloquy, recited by one of Miss Ladd's young ladies, before an audience of parents and guardians! That was the tone they took with me.
Thus ordered, Gale slipped a long blade in between the imbedded thorns, and with a powerful jerk literally tore the choya out of Ladd's quivering flesh. Then, where the ranger's face was not red and raw, it certainly was white. A volley of shots from a different angle was followed by the quick ring of steel bullets striking the lava all around Gale.
'Land, Rebecca, I says, 'how'd you persuade him to take the bit? 'I didn't, she says, 'he seemed to want it; perhaps he's tired of his stall and wants to get out in the fresh air." A year had elapsed since Adam Ladd's prize had been discussed over the teacups in Riverboro.
She described Emily's unexpected arrival on the previous day; and she repeated what had passed between them afterward. Miss Ladd's first impulse, when she had recovered her composure, was to go to Emily without waiting to hear more. Not presuming to stop her, Mrs. Ellmother ventured to put a question "Do you happen to have my telegram about you, ma'am?" Miss Ladd produced it.
Alban suddenly came to a standstill. "All right!" said the doctor. "I couldn't have wished for a more satisfactory reply." "Wait a minute," Alban interposed. "I know Miss Jethro as a teacher at Miss Ladd's school, who left her situation suddenly and I know no more." The doctor's peculiar smile made its appearance again.
On a sudden it stopped. The midnight silence was disturbed no more. What did this mean? Had one among the many persons in authority under Miss Ladd's roof heard the girls talking, and ascended the stairs to surprise them in the act of violating one of the rules of the house? So far, such a proceeding was by no means uncommon.
Ladd's muttering grew into a growl, then lapsed into the silence that marked his companions. From time to time the rangers looked inquiringly at Gale. The field glass, however, like the naked sight, could not catch the slightest moving object out there upon the lava. A long hour of slow, mounting suspense wore on. "Shore it's all goin' to be as queer as the Yaqui," said Ladd.
Emily answered Miss Ladd's letter, to excellent purpose, by telegraph. Will Mrs. Ellmother take care of the cottage in my absence? I shall be away for a month, at least. All is prepared for her if she consents." Mrs. Ellmother gladly accepted this proposal. In the interval of Emily's absence, she could easily arrange to return to her own lodgings.
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