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Macdonald turned to his men with a kind of appeal "I hev given my promise, and Macdonald will not break his word." "Bah!" cried LeNoir, spitting at him. "Now may the Lord give me grace to withstand the enemy," said Macdonald, gravely, "for I am greatly moved to take vengeance upon you." "Bah!" cried LeNoir again, mistaking Macdonald's quietness and self-control for fear. "You no good!
Five days had passed without a tragedy, and the homesteaders were beginning to draw breath in the open again, in the belief that Macdonald must have driven the slayer out of the country. Nothing had been seen or heard of Macdonald since the evening that he parted company with Tom Lassiter, father of the murdered boy. Macdonald, in the interval, was hard on the old villain's trail.
Still, he has been justified of his wisdom up to date, at any rate, since he has not been taken. But his description what of that?" MacDonald referred to his notebook. "Here we have it so far as they could give it. They don't seem to have taken any very particular stock of him; but still the porter, the clerk, and the chambermaid are all agreed that this about covers the points.
There was not much in the cabin, but what it held was earth, and heaven, and all else to Donald MacDonald. A strange, glad cry surged from his chest as he looked about him, and now Joanne saw and understood what John Aldous had told her for Donald MacDonald, after forty years, had come back to his home! "Oh, my Gawd, Johnny, they didn't touch anything!
Gordon burst out: "By the way, talking of Macdonald, he made a priceless remark to-day. Kennedy, that little cove in Christy's, came in late and began stammering out that it was only a minute or two over time; Macdonald looked on him for a minute, and then said: 'Your excuse is just about as good as the woman's who, having had an illegitimate baby, protested that it was only a small one."
"These are my boys, Miss Macdonald Hector's sister, lads," cries Mr Sudberry. "You'll join us I trust?" Hector assents "with pleasure." He is a most amiable and accommodating man. Meanwhile George and Fred shake hands with Flora, and express their "delight, their pleasure, etcetera, at this unexpected meeting which, etcetera, etcetera."
Dugald laughed. Mrs. MacDonald raised both her hands in horror. "Come! perhaps he'll tell us why he came here! Confess, you scoundrel! Say what brought you here!" exclaimed the viscount, suddenly changing his tone from cool irony to burning rage, as he seized and shook his valet. "Oh, my lord, I will! I will! only let go my collar!" gasped the man, shaking or affecting to shake.
It was a time to sit snugly inside by a stove and listen to the howling of the wind as it hurled itself down from the divide. But from daylight till dark Colby Macdonald fought with drifts and breasted the storm. He got into the harness with the dogs. He broke trail for them, cheered them, soothed, comforted, punished.
"I think," he said, "that question will very shortly be answered for you." Macdonald held his hand up, and a rapid thud of hoofs came faintly through the silence. "Troopers! They are coming here," he said. "Yes," said Winston. "I fancy they will relieve you from any further difficulty." Dane strode to one of the windows, and glanced at Colonel Barrington as he pulled back the catch.
That writer fellow hit the nail on the head about me. My whole life is a gamble." She moved with slow grace toward the door, then over her shoulder flashed a sudden invitation at him. "Mrs. Selfridge and I are doing a little betting to-day, Big Chief Gambler. We're backing our luck that you two men will eat lunch with us at the Blue Bird Inn. Do we win?" Macdonald reached for his hat promptly.
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