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I'd either warn him and have done with it, or I'd stand by him." "I'm not sure that I like the misunderstanding about me," Truedale half playfully remarked, "they may shoot me in the back before they find out." They don't aim to shoot or string Burke up; they reckon they'll take him alive and get him locked up in jail to to " "What, Nella-Rose?" "Die of longing!"
To get to the station and telegraph would mean quite a feat for Nella-Rose at any time, and winter was in all likelihood already gripping the hills. To write and send a letter might be even more difficult. So Truedale reasoned; so he feverishly waited, but he was not idle. He rented a charming little suite of rooms, high up in a new apartment house, and begged Lynda to set them in order at once.
Marg can play on one and get him plumb riled up to anythin'; Nella-Rose can twist him around her finger and make him act like the Second Coming." Conning called a halt. "What's the Second Coming?" he asked, his eyes twinkling. "Meaning? good as a Bible character," Jim explained huffily. "Gawd, man! do your own thinkin'. I can't talk an' splanify ter onct." "Oh! I see. Well, go on, Jim."
The thought set his brain whirling a bit, but it made him seriously humble as well. Gradually his doubts and introspections became more definite; he lived day by day, hour by hour; while Jim White tarried, Nella-Rose remained; and the past Truedale's past faded almost from sight.
Why, after the first stunning shock, she seemed to be the only thing Lynda did know about ever had known! She stared at the little figure before her for what seemed an hour. She noted the worried, pitiful child face that, screened behind the worn and care-lined features, looked forth like a pretty flower. Then Lynda said, weakly: "Yes, I know about you all about you, Nella-Rose."
The unreality of the thing gradually wore upon Truedale's tense nerves. If anything was going to happen he wanted it to happen! In another half-hour he meant to put an end to the farce and move his belongings back to the cabin and take Nella-Rose home. It was a nightmare nothing less! "Sh!" and then the waiting was over. Two dark figures, guns ready, stole from the woods behind White's cabin.
Having spoken the words that wrung her heart, Lynda sank back exhausted. Then she made her first her only claim for herself. "It was when everything was past and his new life began his man's life that I entered in. He he told me everything." Nella-Rose bent over her sleeping child, and a wave of compassion overflooded her thought. "I I must think!" she whispered, and closed her lovely eyes.
Why, don't you see, you know how it turns out; I don't!" "Shall I tell you?" "No, no. I want it here with the warm sun and the pines and your yourself making it real." "I do not understand, Nella-Rose!" But as he spoke Truedale began to understand and it gave him an uneasy moment. He knew what he ought to do, but knew that he was not going to do it!
He had no particular destination in mind in fact, the soft, dreamy autumn day lulled him to mental inertia he simply went along, but he went as directly toward the rhododendron slick as though he had long planned his actions. However, it was late afternoon before he came upon Nella-Rose. On the instant he realized that he had been searching for her all day.
He did, however, force himself to act as sanely as possible. He felt confident that Nella-Rose, safely hidden and probably enjoying it in her own elfish way, would communicate with him in a few days at the latest, now that things had, according to White, somewhat settled into shape after the outlaw Lawson had taken himself off the scene.
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