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A moment later, however, another horseman appeared, and laughing boisterously at themselves they slid their guns back into their belts and retied their horses, for the man whom they recognised so quickly, the individual who saved the situation, as it were, was none other than Jose Castro, an ex-padrona of the bull-fights and the second in command to Ramerrez.
Martha hesitated for an instant, abandoned her decision, and retied her bonnet-strings; she might find her mistress the quicker if she acceded to his request. She stepped to the stove, examined the fire to see that it was all right, added a shovel of coal and, with Pickert at her heels, groped her way down the dingy stairs, her fingers following the handrail.
She lifted up her arms with childlike simplicity and backed toward him as he stepped behind her, drew in the folds, and pinned them around what proved a very small waist indeed. Then he untied the apron, took it off, folded it in half, and retied its curtailed proportions around the waist.
In hardly more than a quarter of an hour she emerged, to find Tavernake waiting for her. He had retied his tie, bought a fresh collar, had been shaved. She, too, had improved her appearance. "Breakfast is waiting this way," he announced. She followed him obediently and they sat down at a small table in the station refreshment-room. "Mr. Tavernake," she asked, suddenly, "I must ask you something.
Risler, at a distance, gazed at them in admiration. "How pretty she is! How well they dance!" But, when they spied him, the dancers separated, and Sidonie walked quickly to him. "What! You here? What are you doing? They are looking everywhere for you. Why aren't you in there?" As she spoke she retied his cravat with a pretty, impatient gesture.
"Let us look more carefully," said Carroll, pleasantly, opening each letter before Prince, yet so skillfully as to frustrate any attempt of the latter to read them. "There does not seem to be any memorandum here. They are evidently only private letters." "Quite so," said Prince. Captain Carroll retied the packet and put it in his pocket. "Then I'll return them to her," he said, quietly.
He paused, and, gently releasing Columbine, he went to Moore, and retied his loosened bandage, and spread out the disarranged blankets. Then he sat down on the edge of the bed and bent over a little, running a roughened hand through the scant hair that had begun to silver upon his head.
It has been undone and retied. The papers have been put back in a different order." The Duke was without doubt agitated. He rose from his chair and paced the room restlessly. "You are sure of what you say, Ducaine?" he demanded, turning, and facing me suddenly. "Absolutely sure, your Grace," I answered. He turned away from me. "In my own house, under my own roof," I heard him mutter. "Good God!"
He had said Sorenson and the other men would kill him at once if they learned he had been a witness. That meant they would kill her too if they found out that she not only knew about their crime but had this paper as well. She looked about. Finally she retied the document in a tea-towel, tight and secure, and buried it deep in the flour barrel. They would not think of looking in the flour.
"First time I ever stole anything from a hotel desk," he muttered to himself as he glued the paper back into place; "but I sure had the proper hunch when I grabbed this." Next he retied the string, adding a piece from his slicker pack to offset the shortness where it had been cut. When he had finished the package looked exactly as it had in the first place.
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