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Rayner's silver flask. "It was a blessing to one poor fellow at least, and I thank you for him, madame," he said. "I have been so anxious. I wanted to do something. Did you not get my message, Mr. ?" she asked, with intentional pause that he might supply the missing name. "Indeed there was nothing we could ask of you," he answered, totally ignoring the evident invitation.
His eyes were staring, dark, wild, shifting in gaze from everything they encountered. But often that gaze shot back to the captive girl sitting under a cedar some yards from the man. Bo Rayner's little, booted feet were tied together with one end of a lasso and the other end trailed off over the ground. Her hands were free. Her riding-habit was dusty and disordered.
All the same, he remembers Rayner's bitterness of manner, and has abundant cause to. When the next morning breaks, chill and pallid, a change has come in the aspect of affairs.
The main-trysail was shifted to the foremast; if that would stand, the vessel might possibly be kept off shore; but scarcely had it been set, than the hurricane came down on the hapless vessel with redoubled fury. The weather rigging gave way, and down came the mast itself, killing one of the blacks, and fearfully crushing another; and, to Rayner's dismay striking down Jack Peek.
Rayner's unspeakable dismay, he walked up to the trio, bowed low over the little gloved hand that was extended in answer to the proffer of his own, and next she saw that Royce and Foster had, as though by tacit consent, fallen back, and, coram publico, Mr. Hayne was sole claimant of the regards of her baby sister. There was but one comfort in the situation: the train was in sight.
One of these days he'll swamp you all, sure as shooting. He's in debt now, and it'll fetch him before you know it. What he needs is to be under a captain who could discipline him a little. By Jove, I'd do it!" And Rayner's teeth emphasize the assertion. The young adjutant thinks it advisable to say nothing that may provoke further vehemence.
Rayner's vehement exposition of the case, had aligned themselves on her side as against the post commander, and by their general conduct sought to convey to the colonel and to the ladies who were present at the first dinner given Mr. Hayne thorough disapproval of their course. This put the cavalry people on their mettle and led to a division in the garrison; and as Major Waldron was, in Mrs.
Burnet or Mitchell, who waited quietly until Rayner's extravagant delight should have spent itself. The other men, too, began to see how ridiculous Rayner was making himself. They soon moved off, by twos and threes, back to their work; and presently Rayner found himself alone with his employer and the new man just come down from London. "I suppose," said Mr.
Van Antwerp, who had been educated abroad, and had a Heidelberg scar on his left cheek, and dark, lustrous eyes, and wavy hair, almost raven, was a devoted lover, though fully fifteen years Miss Nellie's senior. Full of bliss and comfort was Mrs. Rayner's soul as she journeyed westward to rejoin her husband at the distant frontier post she had not seen since the early spring.
'Yours affectionately, 'HELEN RAYNER. General Forsyth gave his consent to my going, and I returned that afternoon with John, who was full of garrulous accounts of Miss Rayner's illness. He wound up with saying, 'And h'it's just my doing that hi'm taking you back. I said to Susan this morning, I won't be a party to hiding h'it h'any longer.
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