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A long knife flashed in Ristofalo's right hand. He stood holding the rope in his left, stooping slightly forward, and darting his eyes about as if selecting a victim for his weapon. A stranger touched Richling from behind, spoke a hurried word in Italian, and handed him a huge dirk. But in that same moment the affair was over.
You can't suppose" "I don't suppose anything. I simply want you to do it." "Well, I simply can't!" "Did you ever regret taking my advice, Richling?" "No, never. But this why, it's utterly impossible! Me leave the results of four years' struggle to go holidaying? I can't understand you, Doctor." "'Twould take weeks to explain." "It's idle to think of it," said Richling, half to himself.
" From an emotional stand-point, Richling. Richling," he changed his attitude again, "if you want to be a philanthropist, be cold-blooded." Richling laughed outright, but not heartily. "Well!" said his friend, with a shrug, as if he dismissed the whole matter. But when Richling moved, as if to rise, he restrained him. "Stop! I know you're in a hurry, but you may tell Reisen to blame me."
Sevier asked himself as he laid down the newspaper full of congratulations upon the return of trade's and fashion's boisterous flow, and praises of the deeds of benevolence and mercy that had abounded throughout the days of anguish. Certain currents in these human rapids had driven Richling and the Doctor wide apart.
Richlin', you sen' for yo' wife, you can't risk change o' business. You change business, you can't risk sen' for yo' wife. Well, good-night." Richling was left to his thoughts. Naturally they were of the man whom he still saw, in his imagination, picking his jailer up off the door-step and going back to prison.
He looked at the house opposite, where there was really nothing to look at, and at a woman who happened to be passing, and who was only like a thousand others with whom he had nothing to do. "Richling," he said, "what brings you to New Orleans, any way?" Richling leaned his cheek against the door-post. "Simply seeking my fortune, Doctor." "Do you think it is here?"
Richling listened to him with new pleasure and rising esteem. "You make me envy you," he exclaimed, honestly. "Well, I s'pose you may say so, Mistoo Itchlin, faw I nevva nuss a sing-le one w'at din paid me ten dollahs a night. Of co'se!
Late at night Richling, in his dingy little office, unlocked a drawer, drew out a plump package of letters, and began to read their pages, transcripts of his wife's heart, pages upon pages, hundreds of precious lines, dates crowding closely one upon another.
"Officerr," she panted, for instantly there was a crowd, and a man with the silver-crescent badge was switching the assemblage on the legs with his cane to make room, "Officerr," she gasped, levelling her tremulous finger at Narcisse, "arrist that man!" "Mrs. Ristofalo!" exclaimed Richling, "don't do that! It was all an accident! Why, don't you see it's Narcisse, my friend?"
"Yes!" exclaimed Narcisse, delighted at the unusual coincidence, "at the same time 'tis the tooth! In fact, why should I tell a lie about such a thing like that? 'Twould be useless. Pe'haps you may 'ave notiz, Mistoo Itchlin, thad the noozpapehs opine us fiahmen to be the gau'dians of the city." "Yes," responded Richling. "I think Dr. Sevier calls you the Mamelukes, doesn't he?
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