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Together we lifted him to the low window-seat, pursuers and pursued alike, loosened his collar, chafed his hands, bathed his temples, did everything we could think of doing; but he lay there staring at the ceiling with clenched teeth. At last Royce bent and laid his ear against his breast. Then he arose and turned gently to the women. "It is no use," he said. "He is dead."
"The impossible never happens, sir!" retorted our junior. "I hope to show you that this belongs in that category." "Well, I hope you will," said the district attorney. "I'd be glad to find that someone else is guilty." "I'll do my best," and Mr. Royce turned to me. "Lester, you'd better go and get some lunch. You look quite done up." "Shall I bring you something?" I asked.
"Royce," said Blenham, his hesitation passed, "you're fired. Barbee, I'll take you on right now." Few-worded was Blenham, a trick learned from his master. Across the room Bill Royce had floundered at last to his feet, crying out mightily: "Hi! None o' that, Blenham. It's my fight, yours an' mine, with Barbee jus' buttin' in where he ain't asked.
Even after she went downstairs he kept wishing she had not said that. His mother came to give him his medicine. She stood beside him while he swallowed it. "Enid Royce is a real sensible girl " she said as she took the glass. Her upward inflection expressed not conviction but bewilderment.
Then she glanced up and saw Royce standing there; she drew in her breath with a quick gasp, a great wave of color swept over her cheeks and brow, a great light sprang into her eyes. "Oh, John!" she cried, and swayed toward him. He had her in his arms, against his heart, and the glad tears sprang to my eyes as I looked at them.
Graham and Foster of the infantry, Merton, Webster, and Royce of the cavalry, haunted the house at all manner of hours, and the captain bade them welcome and urged them to come oftener and stay later, and told Mrs. Rayner he wanted some kind of a supper or collation every night.
"One of the boys brought word from the Norton place. Terry wrote her an' wrote some folks in Red Creek an' wrote the Lanes an' " "Appears to be quite a letter-writer," remarked Steve stiffly. "And she's having the time of her life, is she?" "Sure," said Royce innocently. "Why not? The boys are bettin' she's dead gone on some young down-East jasper an' that maybe she'll be married in no time.
At nine o'clock that night the Dutchman's big Rolls Royce delivered him and Ezra Hipps at Laurence's abode and Laurence himself came out to meet them. "Well?" said Hipps. But Laurence shook his head. "Nothing doing at present." "Has he had any food?" "Not today. He's weak enough in all conscience." "Sleep?" "Damn little.
Their instructions were to find from which stable Miss Holladay had ordered a carriage on the morning of Thursday, April 3d. They were to report at the office every day, noon and evening, until the search was finished. They started away at once, and I turned to follow them, when my eye was caught by the expression of our junior's face. "Mr. Royce is ill, sir!" I cried. "Look at him!"
This same Rolls Royce was now a source of some anxiety to Nicol Brinn, for its discovery by a passing labourer in the deserted barn seemed highly probable. However, he had matters of greater urgency to think about, not the least of these being the necessity of concealing his presence in the neighbourhood of Hillside.
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