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After dinner, something having been said of the respectable old game called cat's cradle, she played it to perfection with Sir Jeffrey, till her aunt thought that she must have been unaware that Sir Jeffrey had a wife and family. She was all smiles and all pleasantness, and seemed to want no other happiness than what the present moment gave her. Nor did she once mention Lord Rufford's name.
Of course he had heard that Morton was to marry Arabella Trefoil, and though he made no direct allusion to the fact, as Reginald had done, he spoke in that bland eulogistic tone which clearly showed his purpose. "They went with you to Lord Rufford's, I was told." "Yes; they did." "And now they have left the neighbourhood.
The present Squire had of course known nothing of Chowton as a part of the Morton property, and had no more desire for it than for any of Lord Rufford's acres which were contiguous to his own. He shook hands cordially with his neighbour, as though this visit were the most natural thing in the world, and asked some questions about Goarly and the hunt. "I believe that'll all come square, Mr. Morton.
"Sure," said Judson, "that's what any man would do in a civilized country, ain't it?" "Yes, but not here, John not in the red-colored desert, with Bart Rufford's name in the body of the warrant." "I don't know why not," insisted the engineer stubbornly. "But go on with the story; it ain't any fairy tale, so far."
He did get her at last into his own sitting-room and then, having placed her in a chair near the fire, gave her Lord Rufford's letter to read. "What can it be," said she looking up into his face with her great inexpressive eyes, "that has required all this solemnity?" She still looked up at him and did not even open the letter. "I did not like to answer that without showing it to you.
"She was staying only the other day down at the Paragon's place in Rufford, and they went together to my cousin Rufford's house. His sister, that's Lady Penwether, told me they were certainly engaged then." "That was before the Paragon had been named for Patagonia.
Then they turned in at Lord Rufford's gates; and as they were driven up beneath the oaks, through the gloom, both mother and daughter thought how charming it would be to be the mistress of such a park. The first Evening at Rufford Hall The phaeton arrived the first, the driver having been especially told by Arabella that he need not delay on the road for the other carriage.
"As I have told you before, I've discovered Lidgerwood's weakness he can't call a sudden bluff. Rufford's play the play I told him to make was to get the drop on him, scare him up good, and chase him out of town out of the country. He overran his orders and went to jail for it." "Well?" said the mine-owner.
Red Butte Western opinion was somewhat divided as to which horn of the trilemma the victim of Rufford's displeasure would choose, all admitting that, for the moment, the choice lay with the superintendent. Would Lidgerwood fight, or run, or sit still and be slain?
Judson backed quickly out through the bar-room, drawing his prisoner backward after him; and a moment later Angels was properly electrified by the sight of Rufford, the Red Desert terror, marching sullenly down to the Crow's Nest, with a fiery-headed little man at his elbow, the little man swinging the weapon which had been made to simulate the cold muzzle of the revolver when he had pressed it into Rufford's back at the gaming-table.
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