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Bill carefully refolded the handkerchief, and laid it beside his medicine chest. Kars emitted a sound like a chuckle, "Oh, it was a bully play," he said. Then, after a moment: "Listen, I'll tell it from the start." Kars talked, with occasional pauses, for nearly half an hour. He detailed the events of the night in the barest outline, and only dealt closely with the fact of the gold workings.
Next, he turned over the paper, in order to see if anything further was to be read on the reverse side; but, finding nothing there, he refolded the document, placed it in the box which served him as a receptacle for odds and ends, and brought the day to a close with a portion of cold veal, a bottle of pickles, and a sound sleep.
Her freedom and his right to fight for her was the one consuming fact of significance to him just now. Beside that all others were trivial and unimportant, and every drop of blood in his veins was stirred by a strange exultation. He found himself whistling again as he refolded his blankets and straightened out his tent.
"Yours affectionately, There was a silence, Mr. Palford passed the paper to his partner, who gave it careful study. Afterward he refolded it and handed it back to Miss Alicia. "In a court of law," was Mr. Palford's sole remark, "it would not be regarded as evidence for the defendant." Miss Alicia's tears were still streaming, but she held her ringleted head well up. "I cannot stay!
As you love me, as you are my knight, keep this tryst. In distress and peril, THY WIFE. Folded with it was a line in the commander's hand and with his signature: "The bearer may pass without the palisade at his pleasure." I read the first paper again, refolded it, and rose to my feet. "Who brought this, sirrah?" I demanded. His answer was glib enough: "One of the governor's servants.
She will be delivered to you with all on board. The four men are my subjects, and I feel bound to protect them; they will therefore not be delivered up. Do as you like. "A Royal answer, though it comes from a despot," said Natas as he refolded the paper. "I will waive that point, and let him protect the traitors, if he can.
Gratefully yours, ROBERT ASHBURTON. The young lady refolded the letter, and handed it to the boy. "De gent wants an answer," said the messenger. "Wot's de word?" The lady's eyes suddenly flashed on him, bright, smiling and wet. "Tell that guy on the other bench," she said, with a happy, tremulous laugh, "that his girl wants him."
But the professed attachment of her Cousin Silas failed to call up a very pleased expression of countenance as my aunt refolded the letter, saying, "Well if this isn't a stroke of business, then I'm mistaken. What are you going to do about it Nathan Adams?" "I can't answer that question just yet," said my uncle, reflectively.
The two men closed in on either side of Father José. The woman looked on while the three pairs of eyes read the firm clear handwriting. "Well?" she demanded, as the men looked up from their reading, and the priest thoughtfully refolded the paper. Alec's tongue was the more ready to express his thoughts. "God!" he cried. "It means massacre!" The priest turned on him in reproof.
All being thus done decently and in order, my property was returned to its place, my clothes were carefully refolded. Of what nature were the conclusions deduced from this scrutiny? Were they favorable or otherwise? Vain question.
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