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It was oppressively hot, and had it not been for Jack's anxiety he would have enjoyed the swift cooling passage through the thundery air. But he was strangely troubled. Did that letter mean that his father was on the verge of ruin? Suddenly he bethought himself of Ned Nevins' letter. He opened it, having pushed it into his pocket when they entered the workshop, where Mr.
Between these two, dapper, slender, natty, with his hat set jauntily on one side and his mustache and imperial twirled to the proportions of toothpicks, rode a third cavalier whom every one recognized instantly as the fugitive of Camp Cooke, the urgently-sought Captain Nevins.
And then, he never could tell just who brought this about whether it was Mrs. Burton or Miss Allyn with their tears and tribulations; whether it was Nevins, with his bold accusations, or Petty, with his insidious tales, but between them all the old colonel was induced to send his adjutant and acting aid to examine certain baggage of Loring's stored at the hotel.
"In your speech you must dwell upon the causes which led to the formation of the new party," Nevins explains. "This must be done briefly; but it will pave the way for your demonstration that a new, a young man must be called upon to make the fight against the intrenched robbers.
Gleason she thought such things were only for boys. She's a regular sissy!" But this made her hearers laugh. Nan joined in the laughter, but she added: "You get into a wrestling match with her and see if she's a sissy. She has developed her muscles by other means than gymnasium tricks. She is so very wiry and strong you have no idea!" "But she walks so funny," remarked Lillie Nevins.
She wondered why her mother's eyes rested on her at times with that unfathomable look and the lips would move, then suddenly compress. So she walked down past the summer house where the Virginia creeper was flaunting long scarlet branches in the wind. "Oh, Miss Boyd!" She turned. Alice Nevins ran out. Her face was red and swollen with weeping. "Oh, what is the matter?" "Let me come with you?
"He's off!" were the cries, and with drawn revolver the deputy sheriff fought his way through the throng at the door and with a dozen men at his heels, darted down the hallway in vain pursuit of Nevins, now out of sight among the shanties half a block away. Of all that followed before the court when at last it came to order, there is little need to tell.
Her dear father and her stepmother were ruled by Sancho. She had seen Nevins there often, "him who had fled through the window." She gathered enough from what she heard about the ranch to realize that they were planning to rob the officer, "this officer," before he could get away with the diamonds.
"Is that girl going to tag us wherever we go?" Bess asked, with some vexation. "Sh!" warned Grace. "She has a perfect right to come over here to Adminster, of course." "My goodness! I should say she has," Lillie Nevins said, laughing. "After telegraphing to her father for permission."
Gleason had been remanded to his quarters to "sober up," and the adjutant dispatched to Captain Nevins with the intimation that if his too audible imprecations were not stopped he and his tent would be transferred to a corner of the corral, did Camp Cooke learn that Major Starke had sent a fly-by-night courier after Blake, recalling the troop, that it had halted on that stream ten miles above the post, resting all afternoon and evening, had ridden silently in toward camp an hour after midnight and, after receiving certain instructions from Starke and a visit from Loring, had gone on southward, silently as it came, accompanied by the presiding officer of the court, who hated day marches and the sun-scorched desert, and leaving escort for those who were still to follow.
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