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Greyson," she observed, "I am glad you are not concerned in this statue, for I am myself one of a band of conspirators who are pushing the claims of a new man." "Is there a new sculptor?" Helen asked, smiling. "That is wonderful news." "Yes; we think he is the coming man. His name is Stanton; Orin Stanton." "Oh," responded Helen, with involuntary frankness in her accent. Mrs.
I shall speak to the attorney-general early to-morrow morning. Every honest man owes it to the state to give such help as he can in this extremity." "Take care," said Father Orin, gently. "I am doubting more and more the wisdom and right of having told you these stories about Philip Alston.
Toby wanted to have nothing more to do with a tricky race-horse than Father Orin wished to have to do with a shady adventurer. Tommy Dye looked at them both with a grin. "I saw you just now you and the new doctor a-toting them there youngsters."
They were merely stopping to rest on their way from another portion of the state, to the wild country on the other side of the river." "We saw them, too, poor things," said Ruth, quickly, with pity in her soft eyes. "Father Orin and Toby came by to tell us, and David and I went at once to do what we could. I can't forget how the mother looked.
Father Orin straightened up, feeling and showing the embarrassment and indignation that every man, lay and clerical alike, feels and shows at being seen by another man acting as a nurse to a child. "Well, what of it?" he retorted, as naturally as if he had never worn a cassock. Tommy Dye grinned again, more broadly than before. He took off his hat and rubbed his shock of red hair the wrong way.
The humor of the recollection became too much for him, and he roared with laughter. Toby of his own indignant accord now moved to go on, and Father Orin gathered up the reins saying rather shortly that he had urgent business, and must be riding along. "I say wait a minute. What makes you in such an all-fired hurry?" Tommy Dye called after them.
But I like to be where things are stirring, and I am going, anyhow. So is Joe Daviess." "Yes, I know," said Father Orin, sadly. "Good men as well as bad must go, I suppose, if wars must be fought." Tommy Dye looked hard at him for a moment, and taking off his hat, rubbed his red hair the wrong way till it stood on end. His stare gradually turned to a sort of sheepish embarrassment before he spoke;
She steadied her voice, and told the story as clearly as she could, when Father Orin asked again how she came to be in such a place, and what it was that had led to the wounding of Paul Colbert. While she was speaking the horsemen reached them, and they saw that the man with David was the attorney-general. He hurriedly knelt down by his friend's side. He did not ask what had happened.
Father Orin and the doctor, too, often ride through there. And it is such a dangerous place when the wind blows. Oh!" with a cry of relief, "there's David now! Here he comes. David, David dear I am so glad!" She sprang down the steps and ran to meet the boy. The rush of the rising storm kept from hearing William Pressley's call for her to come back.
Believing that some hideous, unknown peril was sweeping upon them, this mere slip of a girl now bent quietly over the prone head and spoke close to the deaf ear without thinking whether or not it could hear. "There, dear heart, there! Never mind. All is well. Lie still, or your wound will bleed. We are here, Father Orin and I. We will take care of you. Only lie still."
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