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"Don't do it again or I'll forget that you are Sheila's father. I reckon she has told you about Doubler. That's why I came over here to get the paper, for I knew that if you got hold of it you'd make short work of it. I know something else." He took a step forward and tried to hold Langford's gaze, his own eyes filled with a snapping menace.
Langford was leaning forward in his chair, a scared, wild expression in his eyes, his teeth and hands clenched in an effort to control his emotions. "It's a lie!" he shouted. "I didn't kill him! Ned Keegles " "Wait!" Dakota rose from his chair and walked to a shelf, from which he took a box, returning to Langford's side and opening it.
Frederick Langford's absence and its cause, for the dinner was not a very lively one, nor the conversation very amusing to Henrietta and Frederick, as it was chiefly on the news of the country neighbourhood, in which Uncle Geoffrey showed much interest. As soon as she was released from the dining-room, Henrietta ran up to her mamma, whom she found refreshed and composed.
So she went away not to arrange her beauty more convincingly, but to fling coat and hat to her maid and drop down on the chair by her desk and take up the telephone: "Dr. Langford's Hospital?" "Yes." "Miss Erith wishes to speak to Dr.
Faint they became, and their rhythmic beat faster, until they died away entirely. But Dakota's words still lingered in Langford's mind, and it seemed to him that they conveyed a prophecy. "I'll be leaving you now, ma'am."
After gaining the bank he halted his pony and looked intently at her. "You're Langford's daughter, I reckon," he said. "Yes," she returned, seeing that he was a stranger; "I am." "I'm Ben Allen," he said shortly; "the sheriff of this county. What are you doing here?" "I am taking care of Ben Doubler," she said; "he has been " "Then he ain't dead, of course," said Allen, interrupting her.
Langford's shifting eyes rested for the fraction of a second on the face of his manager, and then the old, bland smile came into his own and he answered smoothly: "Nothing." "I have been thinking," said Duncan carelessly, but with a sharp side glance at his employer, "that it wouldn't be a half bad idea to set a gunman on Doubler a man like Dakota, for instance."
Had Langford known that there had been a witness to his visit to Dakota he might not have ridden away from the latter's cabin so entirely satisfied with the result of his interview. Duncan had been much interested in Langford's differences with Doubler. He had agitated the trouble, and he fully expected Langford to take him into his confidence should any aggressive movement be contemplated.
He next procured the necessaries wanted by his people, and then went with his mates to make a protest. But, not choosing that the declaration should proceed from his own mouth, Mr. Langford's son acted as interpreter to the French priest, who was to make it.
Frederick Langford's window, and whom she watched so much that she was said to be in a fair way of solving the problem of how many sticks go to a crow's nest; criticisms of the books read by each party, and very often a reference to that celebrated billet, unfortunately delivered over night to Prince Talleyrand, informing him that his devoted friend had scarcely closed her eyes all night, and then only to dream of him!
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