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James: "Miss Madeline Payne!" Then she stepped back, and a vision appeared before them which struck them dumb and motionless with surprise.
He has a great look of my mother, especially his eyes; they are just like hers." "If you will allow me to come some Sunday " "Certainly. You will sympathise with Miss Payne. She shares your deep-rooted distrust of your fellow-creatures. Yet even she has some faint faith in Rachel Trant." "That is the best symptom about the affair I have yet heard of.
This day our girle Mary, whom Payne helped us to, to be under his daughter, when she come to be our cook-mayde, did go away declaring that she must be where she might earn something one day, and spend it and play away the next. But a good civil wench, and one neither wife nor I did ever give angry word to, but she has this silly vanity that she must play. 11th.
One morning, Cora, looking from the window of her dressing room, saw two men moving about in the grounds below. Upon commenting upon their presence there, Strong had answered, readily; "Yes, madame, Joliffe tells me that they are here to sink a well. Miss Payne has decided to have a fountain among those cedar trees, and they are to go to work immediately." "But a well in winter! They can't dig."
The two men did not linger long in the dining-room. Each felt anxious, for reasons of his own, to be again in the presence of Miss Payne, and so soon joined the ladies in the drawing-room.
"You shoot ojus quick," said the Indian. "I had to, Willy; I had to," protested Higgins. "Couldn't make you out, and I couldn't risk any one getting the drop on me." "Shoot first; look who is by'm by. Holowaugus. No good." "I took him for one of Garman's gang," explained Higgins to Payne. "I couldn't see for the brush." "Did purty well, consid'ring that," ventured Blease.
But neither Gummy nor Janice saw anything funny in his speech. Mrs. Carringford was watching the lawyer's face, and she said nothing. "I mean two thousand pounds in money. That is something like ten thousand dollars. How about it?" asked Mr. Payne again. "Me?" exploded Gummy. "Yes. Because your name is 'Gumswith Carringford. Isn't it worth it?" chuckled the lawyer.
Why-o-me make strong." "So that's how they miscall hooch down in this country," ruminated Higgins. "No, Willy; we don't pack any liquor. Shall I give him a piece of plug?" "Suit yourself if you've got any." "Got any? Never go into an Indian country without it." Higgins produced from his bag a slab of plug tobacco which made Willy's mouth water. "Willy," said Payne suddenly, "who is Mr. Garman?"
"Not too much for Mr. Errington, I think," exclaimed Mrs. Needham with a knowing smile. "I fancy that will be a match before the season is over. It will be a capital thing for Errington. Old Bradley is im-mensely rich, and I am sure Errington is far gone. Well, good-night, my dear Miss Payne. I am so glad to think I shall have Miss Liddell for a little while, at all events.
Cora put two fingers to her blistered cheek, saying: "You can't ask me to come down with this face." "True, I can't. Good-night, step-mamma; it would have been better if you had let the doctor pull that tooth." And Miss Payne swept away, leaving the would-be fugitive to her own reflections. Mrs. Ralston had become to Olive Girard as one of the family.
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