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Well, he was bound to acknowledge that Dale had good taste in such matters, anyway. The expression of Maison's face was not good to see; there was a glow in his eyes that, had Peggy seen it, would have frightened her.
"Dale?" she inquired wildly. Her hands were clasped, the fingers working, twisting and untwisting. "Maison," he told her, his face dark with passion. "Because of me! O, Ben! Maison has done nothing to me. It was Dale, Ben Dale came to our place and attacked me. I felt him carrying me taking me somewhere. This this place " "Is Maison's rooms," Ben told her.
And his cold, amused grin disconcerted Dale. His voice, when he spoke, was gentle and drawling: "Was you thinkin' Miss Bransford is interested in warrants, Dale? Oh, don't! There's an honest judge in Okar, an' he ain't helpin' Maison's gang. Get back to Okar an' tell Maison that Sanderson ain't visitin' Okar today." "You ain't, eh!" Dale's voice snapped with rage.
"For what he done to Peggy damn him! He sneaked into the house an' hurt her head, draggin' her to Okar to Maison's. I've killed Maison, an' I'll kill him!" "He ain't here, then Dale ain't?" demanded Sanderson. "They ain't nobody here," gruffly announced Nyland. "They've been here, an' gone. Dale, most likely. The house looks like a twister had struck it!"
The army, whom its chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile that miserable march, of which every day augmented the disorder. The garrison of Wilna and Maison's corps, united to those who escaped across the Beresina, might number in all 80,000. Before Murat reached Wilna, 40,000 of these had either died or fallen alive into the hands of their unrelenting pursuers.
I'm goin' to cash in, eh?" Nyland nodded and the man sighed. He closed his eyes for an instant, but opened them slightly at Nyland's question: "What did you do to Peggy? Where is she?" The man was sinking fast, and it seemed that he hardly comprehended Nyland's question. The latter repeated it, and the man replied weakly: "She's over in Okar at Maison's in his rooms. She "
Sanderson stepped into the room and closed the door. The heavy six-shooter in his hand was at his hip, the long barrel horizontal, the big muzzle gaping forebodingly into Maison's face. There was a cold, mirthless grin on Sanderson's face, but it seemed to Maison that the grin was the wanton expression of murder lust.
"I'm alone!" gasped Maison. Sanderson laughed lowly. "You must have known I was comin'. Did you expect me? Well " when Maison did not answer "you left the rear door open. Obliged to you. "You know what I came for? No?" His voice was still low and vibrant. "I came to talk over what happened at Devil's Hole." Maison's eyes bulged with horror. "I see you know about it, all right. I'm glad of that.
So you have dragged your unfortunate Norman horse through Paris to Vincennes, from Vincennes to Saint Maur, from Saint Maur to Charenton, from Charenton opposite some island or other which struck your wife and mother-in-law as being prettier than all the landscapes through which you had driven them. "Let's go to Maison's!" somebody exclaims. So you go to Maison's, near Alfort.
Shortly after dusk on the same night Silverthorn, Dale, and Maison were sitting at a table in Maison's private office in the bank building. They, too, were playing cards. But their thoughts were not on the cards. Elation filled their hearts. Dale was dealing, but it was plain that he took no interest in the game.
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