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"Can't see the sense of keeping such a man alive myself," Quest declared, with purposeful brutality. "It was a cruel murder, fiendishly committed." Lenora shivered. Quest laid his fingers for a moment upon her wrist. His voice, though still firm, became almost kind. "Never be afraid, Lenora," he said, "to admit the truth. Come, we have finished with Macdougal now.
You know I am sorry for you. 'You saved Macdougal for my own sake, not for his, 'Yes. Innocent or guilty, your brother was an outlaw, Legally, Macdougal was justified in killing him, but if you kill Macdougal it will be murder. Ah! that terrible thought has gone from your mind? 'Yes; Macdougal is dead. 'Dead! She caught his hand, and looked into his face with terror. 'You have killed him!
I can take advice from any one of you; I know what each of you can do; I can plan a job for you; I can lead you clear of the law and there's not one of you that can bully me or make me give an inch no, nor all of you together La Roche! Macdougal! Clune! Rankin!"
Jim tore himself from her with bitter words, and the next moment they saw Macdougal riding furiously along the side of the gorge, swinging his apparently maddened horse through the thick timber with marvellous dexterity. Done uttered a cry, and ran for the horses, and Lucy followed him, calling piteously.
Macdougal thinks he is an earl at least, and has woven quite a romance about him. She will be glad to see you. Done's mind had flown to Burton's estimate of Ryder, and Lucy's evident admiration of, him gave him a little uneasiness. 'Is Mrs. Macdougal of Boobyalla quite well? he asked. 'Quite. But you must not laugh at her. One gets to like her. 'If one is quite determined.
If we find any trace of James Macdougal on this hill-side, we are going to find it within fifty yards of this spot." They searched carefully and deliberately for more than half an hour. Then Lenora suddenly called out. They looked around to find only her head visible. She scrambled up, muddy and with wet leaves clinging to her skirt. "Say, that guy of a section boss told me to look out for caves.
"So, brother-to-be," he continued, "you have my permission to run along down-town, and feed your savage." "Beg pardon, sir!" The Lescott butler leaned close to the painter's ear, and spoke with a note of apology as though deploring the necessity of broaching such a subject. "But will you kindly speak with the Macdougal Street Police Station?" "With the what?"
Having bid adieu to our venerable and kind cicerone, we proceeded on our tour, winding round the tremendous mountain called Cruachan Ben, which rushes down in all its majesty of rocks and wilderness on the lake, leaving only a pass, in which, notwithstanding its extreme strength, the warlike clan of MacDougal of Lorn were almost destroyed by the sagacious Robert Bruce.
Stretches of the Avenue The Stretch of Tradition Washington Arch Old Homes and Gardens The Mews and MacDougal Alley In the Fourth Decade A Genial Ruffian of the Olden Time Sailor's Snug Harbor The Miss Green School Andrew H. Green, John Fiske, John Bigelow, Elihu Root, and Others as Teachers The Brevoort Farm The First Hotel of the Avenue A Romance of 1840 "Both Sides of the Avenue."
I accordingly embarked in the same canoe, accompanied by my young friend Mr. MacDougal, who joined me last autumn, and who kindly volunteered to proceed along with me to my destination. This canoe was under the charge of people hired for the trip, and directed by the bowsman, or guide. I soon discovered that I was considered merely as a piece of live lumber on board.
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