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Outside a gale was blowing. She could hear the wind roaring through the street. A sudden gust blew down the chimney and the flames flickered and bent beneath it, while in the distance sounded a low rumble of thunder the odd, unexpected thunder that comes sometimes in winter. Presently the lift gates clanged apart. She heard Mallory's step as he crossed the hall.
"And Mallory's a man, too the kind that every woman ought to have, only they ain't enough of 'em to go 'round. Do you remember how he stood up there on the deck of the Lotus and fought fair against my dirty tricks? He's a man and a gentleman, Barbara the sort you can be proud of, and that's the sort you got to have. You see I know you.
A natural bond of sympathy seemed somehow to have arisen between her and this Miss Drake Diana's victim. Alicia Drake, looking up, was astonished, time after time, to find herself stared at by the common-looking young woman across the table, who was, she understood, Miss Mallory's cousin. What dress, and what manners! One did not often meet that kind of person in society.
And again the expletive of disillusion burst from between Mallory's teeth as he saw the front-page double-column spread, a type-specialty of the usually conservative Ledger upon which it prided itself, dwindle to a carefully handled inside-page three-quarter of a column. "You say that Mr. Banneker is in the police station?" asked the city editor. "Or at headquarters.
Didn't tell you, did I, about Mallory's doin' the skyrocket act? After Mr. Robert gets next to the fact that Mallory's a two seasons' old football hero from his old college he yanks him out of that twelve-dollar-a-week filin' job and makes him a salaried gent, inside of two days. "Which is something I owe chiefly to you, Torchy," says Mallory.
It was after nine o'clock when he rode out of the barn. He proceeded straight toward the main street of the town. He was struggling with a half-formed resolve; summoning courage by shutting out all recollections save that of Laura Mallory's apparently earnest remark about the compass.
He could not know, of course, that Kitty's light-hearted remark concerning Peter Mallory's facilities for studying the feminine temperament was still rankling somewhere at the back of her mind. "There's a big element of pathos in those farewell concerts," he submitted gently. "You pianists have a great advantage over the singer, whose instrument must inevitably deteriorate with the passing years."
The coffee helped him a little, but I had had none, so in that last struggle he was as strong as I. That half-mile was only accomplished after an hour's walking, and in every minute of that hour I felt that I could not make another effort. At length we staggered to the door of Maine Mallory's cabin, and were saved!
When it opened again, Mallory's voice said, "Close that light," adding, "Is anything the matter, Mr. West?" "No," replied Harvey. "We're keeping an eye open. I see your men know their business. Have you had any trouble?" "Everything is quiet. Do you care to come in?" Harvey responded by entering, with Mattison following.
The losses at Mallory's Crossroads were very heavy on both sides. The character of the fighting, together with the day's results, demonstrated that it was impossible to make the passage of the North Anna at Mallory's ford without venturing another battle the next day.
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