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Updated: May 22, 2025
The wind had fallen, and in the vast silence of the night this place seemed unreal as a dream. The fox had evidently succeeded in liberating itself from the trap, for its cries had ceased, cut off all of a sudden as though by a closing door. Phyl paused to listen and look around her. Through all the night from here, from there, came thin traces of sound, threads fretting the silence.
He handed the glasses to Healy. When the latter lowered them his face was grave. "There's a man and a fire and a cow and a calf. When these four things meet up together, what does it mean?" "Branding!" cried the girl. "That's right branding. And when the cow is dead what does it mean?" Brill asked, his eyes full on Phil. "Rustling!" she breathed again. "You've said it, Phyl.
"I don't wonder at you loving Vernons," said Phyl. "I was just the same about our place in Ireland, Kilgobbin I thought it would kill me to leave it." "Tell me about it," said Miss Pinckney. Phyl told, or tried to tell.
He wanted Phyl. He had no more idea of marriage than the great god Pan. If she had consented he would have taken her off on that yawl of his imagination round the world or down to Florida, without thought of the morrow or the convenances, or Society; but please do not imagine this rather primitive gentleman a chartered libertine.
"No," said Pinckney, "carelessness, the telegram would not have drowned you, but your carelessness in going too close to the well." "Suppose," said Phyl, "instead of that, Mr. Silas Grangerson had shot me by accident with a gun the telegram would have brought me to that without any carelessness of mine."
He won't trouble you any. I'll guarantee that," he promised largely. "Oh, Phyl!" She had turned to go, but she stopped at his call. "Well?" "Don't you be mad at me. I was only fooling the other day. Course I hadn't ought to have got gay. But a fellow makes a break once in a while." Under the stress of her deeper anxiety she had forgotten all about her tiff with him.
There is no doubt at all about that." "You talk a heap of foolishness, Phyl," he answered resentfully. "My notion is they never will be caught. What makes you so sure they will?" They had been riding down the draw, and at this moment Phyllis looked up, to see a rider silhouetted against the sky line on the ridge above. "Oh, you Brill!" she cried, with a wave of her quirt.
"What's all this nonsense you have been talking," said she, "coming here saying Miss Phyl has run away with Mr. Silas? She started out this morning to meet him and drive to Grangersons; I'm going there myself at eleven and you come here talking of people running away. Do you know you could be put in prison for saying things like that?
"When am I to go?" said Phyl. "Sure, Phyl, you can stay as long as you like with us," said Mr. Hennessey. "The doors of 10, Merrion Square, are always open to you, and never will they be shut on you except behind your back." Pinckney laughed; and a servant coming in to clear the breakfast things, Hennessey led the way from the room to show Pinckney the premises.
"It seems funny that my people should have been the Virginia Mascarenes," said Phyl, "because because well, I feel as if my people had always lived here this feels like home I don't know what it is, but just as I came into the street outside there I seemed to know it, and this house "
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