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We tramped back and forth in stages, twelve hundred miles. We hadn't been able to get dogs, and in the end, when winter overtook us in the, mountains, we cached the outfit and came out." "And never went back." Banks laughed, a shrill, mirthless laugh, and added in a higher key: "Lost a whole year and the outfit." Tisdale nodded slowly. "All we gained was experience.
"I'll take it as a personal favor, and do as much for you, some time. I suppose I don't have to warn you not to fall in love with Faith Dawson yourself or, on second thought, perhaps I had better." This time Lidgerwood's laugh was mirthless. "No, you don't have to, Jack.
Smilingly and with readiness I took off the glove I had just put on. "What odd fancy possesses you now, little one?" I asked, with an air of playfulness. She made no answer, but took my hand and examined it closely and curiously. Then she looked up, her lips twitched nervously, and she laughed a little hard mirthless laugh.
"Move on; Move on;" the words seemed shrieked in his ears now, and looking up he saw a steeple in the form of a giant hand, pointing toward the stormy sky. "Why of course," he laughed with mirthless lips, "of course, it's a church. What a fool I ought to have come here long ago. This is Thursday night and that voice is the bell calling people to Prayer Meeting."
She had broken down his prejudice; she had partially won him over; she had been the "hit" of the evening; further conquests were in sight and within easy reach if she played her cards right. And Essie Tisdale her long upper lip stretched in its mirthless smile she would not have her feelings this morning for a goodly sum. The thought of Van Lennop accelerated her movements.
Absent-mindedly, one by one, Edgarton handed the articles to her, and then sank down on the foot of her bed with his thin-lipped mouth contorted into a rather mirthless grin. "Don't care much for your old father, do you?" he asked trenchantly.
"Yes, ma'am, Dave would have done the same for Hollis Tisdale. They was a team; my, yes." He laughed his hard, mirthless laugh. "Well, so long," he said. She did not answer. Half-way down the corridor Banks looked back through the open door. She had not moved from the place where he had left her, though her face was turned to the window.
And then he saw a smile on Purvis's face the usual watery, mirthless smile, and the pale, wide-open blue eyes; and, looking back, Peter saw that the boat behind them was overturned in the stream, and that the men who had been in it were struggling to the bank, while the boat itself was being carried rapidly down with the current.
A moment after, she heard his peculiar laugh, mirthless and bitter, ring through the rotunda; then the door was slammed violently, and quiet reigned once more through the mansion. Taking the candle from the table, where Mr. Murray had placed it, Edna went back to her own room and sat down before the window.
"I'm not so old," he rejoined sluggishly "only thirty-four." She could not suppress her astonishment. She looked at the hair already grey, the hard, pinched face, the lustreless eyes. "Yet it must seem long to you," she said with meaning. Now he laughed a laugh sodden and mirthless. He was thinking of his boyhood.
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