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An address was delivered, and he was also presented with a curious, pear-shaped iron locket, inlaid with gold and silver, that had been made by one of their number who was a cripple. It was suitably inscribed and of ingenious workmanship. He values it among his most cherished possessions.
With a snap, the young man closed the locket and sat up. The door opened on Uncle William, shining and gruff. The lantern in his hand had gone out. His hat and coat were covered with fine mist. He came across to the fire, shaking it off. "It's goin' to blow all right," he said, nodding to the artist. "And it's raining. You're wet." "Well, not wet, so to speak."
She sat up in bed with a sudden convulsive motion. "Has it been a dream, then?" asked she wildly. Then with a habit, which came like instinct even in that awful dying hour, her hand sought for a locket which hung concealed in her bosom, and, finding that, she knew all was true which had befallen her since last she lay an innocent girl on that bed. She fell back, and spoke word never more.
Judson turned and shut the door in their faces. All this time Mr. Bass had not moved, not so much as to lift his head or shift one of his great cowhide boots. "Well, sir," demanded Mr. Judson, "what have you to say?" "N-nothin'. G-guess I'll keep the locket. I've, paid for it I've paid for it." "And you are aware, my friend," said Mr. Judson, "that my clerk has given you the wrong price?"
"I am going to let you keep the locket," he said, "because it will teach my greenhorn a lesson. William, do you hear that?" "Yes, sir," William said, and his face was very red. Mr. Bass rose solemnly, apparently unmoved by his triumph in a somewhat remarkable transaction, and William long remembered how he towered over all of them. He held the locket out to Mr.
Courtland saw the mistake of his tone, but it was too late to change it now. He handed her the locket and the letter, and briefly, and perhaps a little more seriously, recounted the incident that had put him in possession of them. But he entirely suppressed the more dramatic and ghastly details, and his own superstition and strange prepossession towards her.
I I " Joanna gave a loud sacrificial gulp "I'll make it middle-day dinner instead of late, and then you won't have to wear evening dress, and Ellen can come and meet the Old Squire. She should ought to, seeing as he gave her a pearl locket when she was married.
"I guess they could dig in the sand with 'em, the crabs could. They could dig deep holes." "I wish one would dig down and find my lost locket," said Rose with a sorrowful sigh. For, though they had all searched the sand near the bungalow beach over and over, there was no sign of the missing gold locket. "I guess we'll never find it," Rose went on with another sigh.
Oh, I am so hot and feverish," and, as if even the slender chain of gold about her neck were a burden, she undid the clasp, and laid upon the stand the locket which had so interested Hugh. Naturally inquisitive Sam took it in his hand, and touching the spring held it to the light, uttering an exclamation of surprise.
Vivian had always treasured a lock of his mother's hair, cut off on her death-bed; and when he was at his French tutor's, his first pocket-money had been devoted to the purchase of a locket, on which he had caused to be inscribed his own name and his mother's.
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