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Perhaps when he comes to bring us our dinner I can persuade him to send it to her." Nathaniel thrust his hands into his pockets. His fingers dug into Obadiah's gold. "Would this help?" he asked. He brought out a shimmering handful of it and counted the pieces upon the table. "Two hundred dollars if he will deliver that note," he said. Neil stared at him in amazement.
"'Right well, Smooth; she'll be delighted to see you. "'And so will I to see the missus; I know'd her when she warn't bigger nor Cousin Obadiah's Jane, and didn't think no more about being Mrs. President of these United States nor my missus. In answer to which, the General said a respectable man might as well be President as anything else we all know how to be.
Finally, however, he drew forth a little bundle and gave it to the girl, mumbling something about "Sassafras, thort mebbe 'twould be good fer yer dad," and bolted out of the room. Nobody said anything after Obadiah's abrupt retirement, but when a few moments later, Prudence looked shyly around, with cheeks a little rosier than usual, she saw Perez regarding her with a slight smile of amusement.
He turned his face toward Obadiah's, his heart singing the glad words which the woman had spoken to him back there in the sixth chamber. And as he was about to take the first step in that long race back to the mad councilor's he heard behind him the approach of quick feet. He crouched behind a clump of bushes and waited. A shadowy form was hurrying through the grove.
As his account proceeded Captain Obadiah's face altered by degrees from its natural brown to a sickly yellow, and then to so leaden a hue that it could not have assumed a more ghastly appearance were he about to swoon dead away. Great beads of sweat gathered upon his forehead and trickled down his cheeks.
His wealth and his power he left behind him: but one thing he took with him into the grave, better than all wealth and power; and he keeps it now, and will keep it for ever; and that is, a good, and just, and merciful action concerning which it is written, 'Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them. Yes, though a man's wealth will not follow him beyond the grave, his works will; and so Obadiah's one good deed has followed him.
And he was sure that Obadiah's night visitor the girl with the lilacs was playing a vital part in it. He plucked at the withered flowers which the old man had thrown him. He could detect their sweet scent above the pungent fumes of tobacco and as Obadiah's triumphant chuckle recurred to him, the gloating joy in his eyes, the passionate tremble of his voice, a grim smile passed over his face.
He looked at Obadiah's leg, sucked in his breath with a whistling sound more expressive than words, and faced Old Man Curry. "Want the 'vet' to see him?" asked the newcomer. "No use in him suffering that long," said the old man dully. "He's ruined. Might as well get it over with." Jockey Moseby Jones wailed aloud. "Oh, don' let 'em shoot Obadiah, boss!" he pleaded.
From the footprints in that path it was quite evident that Strang's wife was a frequent visitor at Obadiah's. At the edge of the forest, from where he could see the log house situated across the opening, Nathaniel paused. He had made up his mind that the girl whom he had seen through the king's window was in some way associated with it.
They had walked in silence for many minutes when the girl stopped. "It is not very far now," she whispered. "You must go!" "Only a little farther," he begged. She surrendered again, hesitatingly, and they went on, more slowly than before, until they came to where the path met the footway that led to Obadiah's. "Now now you must go," whispered Marion again.
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