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"I reckon you have the right idea. I think it's a cinch that if we land the men that set us afoot and got away with the money, we'll have the cold-blooded brutes that put Hans Rutter's light out. But I don't sabe, Mac, why those old-timers should be mixed into a deal of this kind.
I could never look Kate in the face, nor would she ever speak to me again, if I took any other course. You forget that he virtually told Kate she lied," and he gazed steadily at Willits as if waiting for the effect of his shot. St. George's eyes kindled. There was the ring of a man in the boy's words. He had seen the same look on the elder Rutter's face in a similar situation twenty years before.
George might have had concerning Rutter's frame of mind. Henceforth the boy and the man would conduct their lives as if the Lord of Moorlands did not exist.
Of Dr. Rutter's cases I do not know how to speak. I only ask the student to read the facts stated by Dr.
"Don't go away again, Harry, please don't, my son!" he pleaded, strangling the tears, trying to regain his self-control tears had often of late moistened Rutter's lids. "Your mother can't stand it another year, and I'm breaking up half blind. You won't go, will you?" "No not right away, father we'll talk of that later." He was still in the dark as to how it had come about.
George's wrath kept him silent. He had rarely been so stirred. He was not a brawler his whole life had been one of peace; his whole ambition to be the healer of differences, and yet there were some things he could not stand. One of these was cruelty to a human being, and Rutter's public disowning of Harry was cruelty of the most contemptible kind.
Two tiny points of flame danced in Rawlins's eyes. "Henson would never have dared," he said. "My mind was quite easy on that score." "I understand," Chris murmured. "And you kept the cigar-case?" "Yes, I rather liked it. And I could afford a luxury of that kind just then." "Then why did you dispose of it to Rutter's in Moreton Wells? And why Moreton Wells?"
Harry Rutter's things," he had said to Alec, "so that I may be relieved from the annoyance of a second delivery."
For the first time since the cruel announcement fell from Rutter's lips the real situation, with all that it meant to his own future and those dependent upon him, stared him in the face. He looked up and caught Harry's anxious eyes scanning his own. His old-time, unruffled spirit came to his assistance. "No, son!" he cried in his cheeriest voice, springing to his feet "no, we won't worry.
There he stood swaying, Rutter's outstretched hand in both of his, his whole nature stirred only one thought in his heart to wipe out the past and bring father and son together. "Yes, Talbot I'll forgive you and I'll help you I have helped you! Harry will be here in a few minutes I sent him out to get his beard shaved off that's why you didn't know him." The colonel reeled and but for St.
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