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Then Henry went off in dudgeon, and, meeting Bayne in the yard, had a long discussion with him on the subject. The tempter took advantage of Little's angry departure, and steadily resumed his temptation. But he was interrupted in his turn.
The sense of a noiseless assassin eternally dogging him preyed on Little's mind and spirits, and at last this life on the brink of the grave became so intolerable that he resolved to leave Hillsborough, but not alone. He called on Grace Carden, pale and agitated. "Grace," said he, "do you really love me?" "Oh, Henry! Do I love you?" "Then save me from this horrible existence.
There were now four adult forward officers in the Josephine; but the old boatswain was the only one who inspired any special terror. Little's brilliant scheme to enable his small party to escape seemed to be endangered by Peak's coming, for he was an exceedingly prompt, decided and vigilant man. The four old sailors, on an emergency, could handle the Josephine alone.
"One line, to say you will consider my advice, and never hate nor despise your grateful and unhappy friend. When she had dispatched this letter, she felt heroic. The next day, she wished she had not written it, and awaited the reply with anxiety. The next day, she began to wonder at Little's silence: and by-and-by she was offended at it.
On the table lay Henry Little's letter. Jael took it without a word, and gave it to Raby. He took it, and, after a loud ejaculation of surprise, began to read it. He had not quite finished it when Dr. Amboyne tapped at the door, and Jael let him in. The crushed figure with disheveled hair, and Raby's eye gleaming over the letter in his hand, told him at once what was going on.
After Yates had talked to Billy for three or four minutes, the latter hurriedly closed the store door, donned the Brummel coat, and went across the road to the inn where the Indianapolis coach was waiting, and took his place. At six o'clock that evening Dic arrived at Billy Little's store from his southern expedition.
Together they reached the locomotive of their train, and like a vision the strange lady emerged from nowhere and approached them, smiling brilliantly. "How do you do, Mr. Little," she greeted, and Little's politeness was scarcely proof against his astonishment. He stared in amazement at her ready use of his name. And he was certain now that he had never set eyes on this radiant being before.
A report like a pistol, a cry from the spectators, a thousand hands stretched to grasp the parted rope, and the balloon darted upward. Only one hand of that thousand caught the rope, Little's! But in the same instant the horror-stricken spectators saw him whirled from his feet and borne upward, still clinging to the rope, into space. Lady Caroline fainted.
Little; go and shake hands with him, and admire him." The Anomaly went directly, and gazed into Little's face for some time. He then made his report. "He is beautiful and black." "I've seen him blacker. Now leave off admiring him, and look at these pictures while I prose. Two thousand philosophers are writing us dead with 'Labor and Capital. But I vary the bore.
By Uncle Jason's advice, too, Nelson had put off engaging a lawyer in Middletown to come over to defend the young man in Judge Little's court. "And well he did wait, too," declared Mr. Day, very much pleased with his own shrewdness. "That would have meant a twenty dollar note. Now it don't cost Mr. Haley a cent."
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