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He resented the bodily weakness that was making burro-riding a torture. "I mean it's worth a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to you just to let me drop out. I 'd hand you over that much to quit the chase." "It ain't me that's chasing you, Connie. It's the Law!" was Blake's quiet-toned response. And the other man knew he believed it. "Well, you quit, and I 'll stand for the Law!"
"Then why couldn't you take me in with you?" she asked, with a quiet-toned solemnity. She had the sensations of a skater on treacherously thin ice, as she watched the slow, cautious scrutiny of his unbetraying face. But now, for some reason, she knew neither fear nor hesitation. "And what if we did?" he parried temporizingly. "Well, what if we did? men and women have worked together before this!"
If so, they must be always capable of falling in with any, if not of effecting every, expression of his will. There remains but one miracle of this class to consider one to some minds involving greater difficulties than all the rest. They say the story of the fish with a piece of money in its mouth is more like one of the tales of eastern fiction than a sober narrative of the quiet-toned gospel.
"Then what are you?" he demanded. "I 'm a confidential agent of the Treasury Department," was her quiet-toned answer. "Oho!" cried Blake. "So that's why we 've grown so high and mighty!" The woman sank into the chair beside which she had been standing. She seemed impervious to his mockery.
When Jennie reached her delightful apartments which looked even more luxuriantly comfortable bathed in the soft radiance that now flooded them from quiet-toned shaded lamps than they did in the more garish light of day she walked up and down her sitting-room in deep meditation.
At last she came back to him with the fresh loveliness of the morning in her face, and exclaimed, "I have seen an ideal bird, and he wears his plumage like a quiet-toned elegant costume that simply suggests a perfect form. He was superbly indifferent, and scarcely looked at us until we came too near, and then, with a reserved dignity, flew away.
The gaze of her wide-open eyes travelled questioningly around the quiet-toned room which two windows at right angles to each other still kept light with the reflection of a yellow winter sunset.
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