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Then through the press came a body of silent men, four abreast and shoulder to shoulder. The crowd opened to let them through, cheering frenziedly. They wore an air of sober responsibility; they carried guns, and looked to neither right nor left. Directly beneath the waiting women they passed, and at their head marched Norvin Blake and Bernie Dreux together with two men unknown to the girls.
Norvin reasoned silently that if this were indeed true it more than confirmed his fears for the Countess, and after a brief hesitation he told the soldier what he had learned at his visit to Terranova. Neri rose and paced the room in agitation. "Oh! She is mad indeed!" he exclaimed. "What can she do that we have not already done? Aliandro? Bah!
Inasmuch as the ride to San Sebastiano was long, the young men were forced to leave early, but they were scarcely out of hearing before Martel drew his horse in beside Norvin and, laying a hand upon his friend's arm, inquired, breathlessly: "Well? Come, come, brother of mine! You know I perish of eagerness. What have you to say? The truth, between man and man."
I did not sleep a wink. I can never atone." "Quite right," his wife agreed." You must have been mad, Montegut. It was criminal of you to rush forth and embrace him in that manner." "But, delight of my soul, the news he bore! The joy of seeing him! It unmanned me." The Creole waved his hands wildly, as if at a loss for words. "Oh, you fibber! Norvin told me he'd never met you," said Myra Nell.
"Go away from that door!" screamed Myra Nell; but the fellow merely scowled. "I hate to offend the lady," he explained to Norvin, in a hoarse whisper; "but I can't let her out." Miss Warren repeated in a fury: "Go away, I tell you. These are friends of mine. If you were a gentleman you'd know you're not wanted. Norvin, make him skedaddle." Blake shook his head. "You've scared us all blue.
Norvin recognized them all as admirers of Myra Nell cotton brokers, merchants, a bank cashier a great relief surged over him. "Thank God! You're here in time," he gasped. "What's happened to her?" Raymond Cline started to speak, but just then Blake heard the girl herself calling to him, and saw her leaning from a window, her piquant beauty framed with blushing roses which hung about the sill.
"Well, how goes your detecting, Bernie?" Norvin inquired. "Hist!" breathed the little man so sharply that his hearers started. He winked mysteriously and they saw that he was bursting with important tidings. "There's something doing!" "What is it?" demanded the Chief. But Mr. Dreux answered nothing.
After a moment he added: "You think Myra Nell is all frivolity and glitter, but she isn't; she's as deep as the sea, Norvin. I can't tell you how glad I am that you two "Blake stirred uneasily. "I I admire you tremendously, for you're just what I wanted to be and couldn't.
Blake was not long in discovering that while the relations between the two branches of the family were maintained with an outward show of cordiality they were really not of the closest. Neri told him, as a matter of fact, that Margherita had always considered these people covetous and untrustworthy. Having exhausted the clues at Messina, Norvin hastened to Naples and there took up his inquiry.
To Norvin the popular clamor, which rose high during the next few days, had a sickening familiarity. At the time of Martel Savigno's murder he had looked upon justice as a thing inevitable, he had felt that the public wrath, once aroused, was an irresistible force; yet he had seen how ineffectually such a force could spend itself.
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