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"My fine old father and dear old Amos! I can't." "Yes, you'll go on, Billy," Lydia's voice was very low. "After I faced what would come to John Levine through this, I can face anything." Billy gave a little groan and bowed his head on Lydia's knee. Suddenly she felt years older than Billy. She smoothed his tumbled blond hair. "Go on, Billy. Our ancestors left England for conscience' sake.
Arabella Correyville, without an idea as to what was whispered, had seen the broad smile, and had heard the giggle. "Who was out there?" she wrote on a bit of paper, and cautiously passed it to Patricia Levine. "I don't know. I didn't see them, but they must be swell. They had ever so much luggage." That was just like Patricia. She judged every one thus.
"About all a bandit could do would be to take our money," added Mollie. "All!" cried Grace indignantly. "Yes, that's all. And what would we do without any money, I'd like to know!" "Goodness, we could always sell the ranch," said Betty, so matter-of-factly that the girls chuckled. "We have Peter Levine to fall back on, you know."
"I neither liked him nor trusted him," Allen replied decidedly, adding with a wry smile: "He calls himself Peter Levine, but I'm willing to wager about anything I have that that isn't his real name." "You think he's a sharper then?" Mr. Nelson interjected. "Yes, sir," responded Allen, his young face earnestly intent.
I'm not going to touch an acre of the land myself so I can go in with clean hands and I'm not going to forget that I came pretty close to being a skunk, myself." "Oh, but, Billy!" cried Lydia. "There's John Levine and all our friends oh, you can't do it!" "Look here, Lydia," Billy's voice was stern, "are you for or against Indian graft?"
History would not fail to record the black fact against her race that, a free people, the boasted vanguard of human liberty, Americans had first made a race dependent, then by fraud and faithlessness, by cruelty and debauchery, were utterly destroying it. And finally, that by closing her eyes to the facts, because of her love for Levine, she was herself sharing the general taint.
"I had some such idea myself, but it certainly helps to have my judgment backed by somebody who knows the people in the case." Allen learned much about Peter Levine and his associates and about Gold Run itself in the following conversation, and when he and the girls finally said good-by to the old man and his daughter and started off down the trail again, he was more than satisfied.
Patricia and Arabella had a fair-sized room farther down the corridor. Vera Vane and Elfreda Carleton were snugly settled in cozy quarters a few doors beyond the one that bore Dorothy's and Nancy's names. Patricia Levine had ordered a large card, elaborately lettered in red and green, announcing that: THIS SUITE IS OCCUPIED
Sometimes she looked on the world that other children lived in, with the wonder and longing of a little beggar snub-nosed against the window of a French pastry shop. John Levine came home with Amos that night to supper.
"To a Jew," she hastened to assure him, "But he is neither a Talmud-sage nor pious. He is newly returned from the Cape." "Ah, they are a link lot," muttered the Reb anxiously. "Where didst thou first meet him?" "At the Club," she answered. "At the Purim Ball the night before Sam Levine came round here to be divorced from me." He wrinkled his great brow. "Thy mother would have thee go," he said.
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