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What else she could do she was prevented from telling, for she fell into a fit, and was carried out rigid and foaming at the mouth. I am generally sorry to see even wicked people suffer, but I wasn't a bit sorry to see Mrs. Markson; for, while she was talking, poor Helen trembled so violently that it seemed to me she would be scared to death if her cruel stepmother talked much longer.
"Reckon his head was purty level," replied the stage-driver, tossing his head backward toward me. "Mr. Raines," said the coachman, recognizing me, "Mr. Markson is awful sick like to die any minute an' he wants to see you right away wishes you wouldn't wait for anything."
But, wait a moment; if he has come for that purpose, he may make things uncomfortable for me before I reach the ground. And if he sets the lumber afire, and it catches the tree I am in, as it will certainly do, I will be There is no knowing what sort of a quandary I might not have got into if the man had not stepped out into the moonlight, and up on the sills, and shown himself to be Mr. Markson.
It was generally inactive, but it was never absent, and the rapidity with which it awoke once or twice when she disapproved something which was done or said, made me understand why Mr. Markson, who always seemed pleasant and genial with any one else, was quite silent and guarded when his wife was with him. Pretty soon the people of Bartley knew all about the Marksons.
Markson yearly the interest of twenty thousand dollars until death or marriage, "this being the amount," as the will said, "that she assured me would be amply sufficient for my daughter under like circumstances." As the judge ceased reading, and folded the document, Mrs. Markson sprang at him as if she were a wild beast.
Markson seemed to understand what I said, for she favored me with a look more malevolent than any I had ever received from my most impecunious debtor; the natural effect was to wake up all the old Adam there was in me, and to make me long for what was coming. "May I ask the date of that will?" asked Judge Bardlow. "Certainly, sir," replied Mrs. Markson's lawyer, handing the document to the judge.
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