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He touched her shoulder with his big fingers that resembled talons, but the girl made a quick side movement and slipped from his grip. "Do not touch me!" she cried fiercely. "How dare you put your hand on me!" But Leith's temper was up at that moment, and he was angry enough for anything. He made a spring for the girl's hand, and I thrust my shoulder forward to bump him off.
The line of smoke on the top of the crest showed that the head of the column had made good its footing there; while the quick puffs of smoke, and the rattle of musketry, denoted that the other column was also within a short distance of the summit. But Leith's regiments were approaching the spot at the double.
As I analyzed my own feelings, on turning my back upon the spot, I felt that Barbara Herndon was not alone in desiring to make the trip when the wholesome sunbeams were pouring into the shadowy cauldron. Holman and I had sat up late discussing the Vermilion-lined crater on the night we halted upon its brink, and it was Leith's voice that roused us in the morning.
They were transmitted through Barbara Herndon, but I also recognized that the elder sister would hardly support the statements unless she had good grounds for her anxiety. Her woman's intuition had branded Leith's motives in bringing the Professor into the Islands as bad, and the sallow-faced giant could not erase the impression. The actual reason for trickery was a matter of speculation.
A frown passed over Leith's face like a cloud shadow across a yellow plain. He slackened his grip on the rope and lurched toward us. "You must go below at once!" he screamed, addressing the girl. "Your father is too ill to look after you at this moment, so the duty is mine. There is danger here, and I order you below!"
Edith and Barbara Herndon, with their father, moved up closer to the edge as the grinning Kanaka stepped forward to obey Leith's order. He walked quickly to the polished porphyry slab, moved cautiously to the extreme rim, then, turning his back on the crater, he dropped upon his hands and knees and lowered himself down till only his grinning face appeared above the top.
"Oh to be sure! I wanted to talk to you about Rose." The smile became very sweet and welcoming on Mrs. Leith's handsome round face. "There's nothing wrong, I'm sure. Your Rosamund sheds confidence in her dear self like a light all round her." "Nothing wrong no. I didn't mean that." Dion paused.
Leith's second brigade was now approaching the scene of the struggle, and was near at hand; Hill's division was seen in motion towards the same spot. "That is all right now," Terence said; "but there is another big fight going on, further up the valley."
A chap needs some rest if he's to do himself justice, hang it, mater, now!" "I know all about that!" She looked at him shrewdly, and he smiled on one side of his mouth. "Go on, mater!" "But having Mr. Leith here I thought I wouldn't do that. Mr. Leith's awfully fond of boys, and it seemed to me you might do him more good than any one else could." "Well, I'm blowed! D'you really think so?"
Out of her happiness with her husband she seemed to draw an instinctive knowledge of what such a nature as Dion Leith's wanted and of the extent of his loss. Once she said to Sir Carey, with a sort of intensity such as she seldom showed: "Good women do terrible things sometimes." "Such as ?" said Sir Carey, looking at her almost with surprise in his eyes. "I think Mrs.
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