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Dave offered his hand, and with it went the warm smile that made him the most popular man in Washington County. "Listens fine, Hal. I sure am glad to hear you say so." "I niver had any kick against the Rutherfords. They were open and aboveboard, anyhow, in all their diviltry," contributed Ryan to the pact of peace. Nobody looked at Roy, but he felt the weight of their thoughts.
Digby Street was sucking into its undercurrents her youth, her cheerfulness, her hope; only pride was left, she must make a little struggle to hold on to pride, and then news came from Miss Abercrombie that Aunt Janet had been ill and that the Rutherfords had gone abroad. Apart from her fruitless journeys in search of work, her days held nothing.
"I'll tell you what's to prevent you," she flung back, as it were in a kind of careless scorn. "Your fondness for your worthless hide. If they find me shot to death, they will know who did it. You couldn't hide deep enough in Chihuahua to escape them. My father would never rest till he had made an end of you." Her argument sounded appallingly reasonable to him. He knew the Rutherfords.
The Lord Justice-Clerk was a stranger in that part of the country; but his lady wife was known there from a child, as her race had been before her. The old "riding Rutherfords of Hermiston," of whom she was the last descendant, had been famous men of yore, ill neighbours, ill subjects, and ill husbands to their wives, though not their properties.
We are here for so short a time; and all the old people before us Rutherfords of Hermiston, Elliotts of the Cauldstaneslap that were here but a while since riding about and keeping up a great noise in this quiet corner making love too, and marrying why, where are they now? It's deadly commonplace, but, after all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths."
They had seen nothing of any stranger in the valley except himself, but they dropped casually the news that the Rutherfords had been going in and out of Chicito Cañon a good deal during the past few days. "Chicito Cañon. That's a Mexican name, isn't it? Let's see. Just where is this gulch?" asked Beaudry. The old German pointed out of the window. "There it iss, mein friend.
"Absolutely none," replied Dave evenly. "Cut that out, Dan," ordered Rutherford curtly. The ex-convict mumbled something into his beard, but subsided. Two hours had slipped away before Dingwell commented on the fact that the sheriff had not arrived. He did not voice his suspicion that the Mexican had been intercepted by the Rutherfords. "Looks like Sweeney didn't get my message," he said lazily.
Strachy, and Professor Adams, the astronomer; many of these people are here in conclave about Greenwich time, &c. John and E are now gone driving about with his friend. It is very hot, and poor Hedley is quite knocked down, but we took a little walk. Later. After dinner a good many adjourned to the drawing-room, Captain and Mrs. Ray, the Strachys, Rutherfords, &c.
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