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He seemed to me thin that day. The suspense he is under is wearing upon him. Is it my duty to cut it short by proclaiming my infidelity to my oath and my determination to marry the girl who has made me forget it? DEAR FELIX: Miss Poindexter has told me unreservedly that she cares for me. Are you satisfied with me now? In haste, THOMAS. She loves me. Oh, ecstasy of life! Eva Poindexter loves me.
"A sister! a sister, who died before you were born beautiful, good, with a voice like an angel's and a heart she should be standing by my side to-day, and she would have been if if he but none of that. I have no breath to waste. Facts, facts, just facts! Afterward may come emotions, hatred, denunciation, not now. This is my story, Thomas. "John Poindexter and I were friends.
"You are quite right, Don José," said Poindexter, with ironical concern, "it is Mrs. Tucker. Your eyes do not deceive you. She will be glad to do the honors of her house," he continued, with a simulation of appealing to her, "unless you visit her on business, when I need not say I shall be only too happy to attend you, as before."
"If I had only known this then!" ejaculated Mrs. Tucker. "I knew it, but you had company then," said Poindexter, with ironical gallantry, "and I wouldn't disturb you." Without saying how he knew it, he continued, "In the stage-coach you might be recognized. You must go in a private conveyance and alone; even I can not go with you, for I must go on before and meet you there.
Perhaps she thought of neither, or indeed of anything that was then before her eyes. She walked erect to the door and turned upon the threshold. "I mean what I say," she said calmly. "I don't understand you. But whatever just claims you have upon my husband will be paid by me, or by his lawyer, Captain Poindexter." She had lost the sympathy but not the respect of her hearers.
"I reckon the only spirit was that which you and Spencer consumed," she said, cheerfully. "I don't wonder you're a little mixed. Like as not you've misunderstood his plans." Patterson shook his head. "He'll turn up yet, alive and kicking! Like as not, then, Poindexter knows where he is all the time." "Impossible! He would have told me," said Mrs. Tucker, quickly. Mrs.
"If you have any other idea, Don José, I ought to warn you, as Mrs. Tucker's lawyer, that she is in legal possession here, and that nothing but her own act can change that position." "Ah, so." Irritated at the shrug which accompanied this, Poindexter continued haughtily, "If I am to understand, you have nothing to say" "To say, ah, yes, possibly. But" he glanced toward the door of Mrs.
The Reverend David Poindexter certainly had every appearance of being deeply in love; and it is often seen that the passions of reserved men, when once aroused, are stronger than those of persons more generally demonstrative. Colonel Saltine did not at first receive his proposed son-in-law with favor.
"Don't let any one pass that door, even if it is to bring the tidings of my wife's death." Mr. Gryce reached out his hand, and turned the key in the lock. Young Adams opened the paper which he had taken from the detective's hand, and while his blood-shot eyes vainly sought to master the few lines there written, Mr. Poindexter attracted the attention of Mr.
"But it has never been recorded," said Poindexter, with a carelessness he was far from feeling. "Of a verity, no. Do you wish that I should record it?" asked Don Jose, with a return of his simple gravity. Poindexter bit his lip. "You said we were to talk like gentlemen," he returned. "Do you think you have come into possession of this alleged deed like a gentleman?"
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