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Ryder's son, Jefferson, was here. We crossed on the same ship. I introduced him to Judge Stott on the dock." The judge looked surprised, but he merely said: "I hope for his sake that he is a different man from his father." "He is," replied Shirley simply, and nothing more was said. Two days went by, during which Shirley went on completing the preparations for her visit to New York.
Ryder's eyes as he took the floor and adjusted his eyeglasses. He began by speaking of woman as the gift of Heaven to man, and after some general observations on the relations of the sexes he said: "But perhaps the quality which most distinguishes woman is her fidelity and devotion to those she loves.
She made no reply, but followed Jim to Ryder's side, trembling in every limb, with a bursting pain at her heart and a feeling of utter desolation upon her. Done knelt by the dead outlaw, looking into the white face, and remembered standing as a boy gazing into another dead face wonderfully like this, the face of his mother. He felt no sorrow; there was room in his soul only for his black wrath.
Almost ungovernable fury was, indeed, the weakest spot in John Ryder's armour, for in these moments of appalling wrath he was reckless of what he said or did, friendship, self-interest, prudence all were sacrificed. Such was the Colossus on whom all eyes were turned as he entered. Instantly the conversations stopped as by magic. The directors nudged each other and whispered.
But in repose his face grew stern and forbidding, and when his prognathous jaw, indicative of will-power and bull- dog tenacity, snapped to with a click-like sound, those who heard it knew that squalls were coming. But it was John Ryder's eyes that were regarded as the most reliable barometer of his mental condition.
Ryder's aristocratic private secretary, and to facilitate this preliminary inspection there had been installed between the library upstairs and the front door one of those ingenious electric writing devices, such as are used in banks, on which a name is hastily scribbled, instantly transmitted elsewhere, immediately answered and the visitor promptly admitted or as quickly shown the door.
This threw suspicion on Thomas Leicester, but did not connect Mrs. Gaunt with the deed in any way. But Ryder's evidence filled this gap. She revealed three serious facts: First, that, by her mistress's orders, she had introduced this very Leicester into her mistress's room about midnight, where he had remained nearly half an hour, and had then left the house. Secondly, that Mrs.
But how on earth did Judge Rossmore's daughter come to be travelling in the company of John Burkett Ryder's son? The more he thought of it the more it puzzled him, and while he cogitated, Shirley and her companions wrestled with the United States Customs, and were undergoing all the tortures invented by Uncle Sam to punish Americans for going abroad. Shirley and Mrs.
He gave Shirley a quick, questioning look. She nodded affirmatively. Ryder, who had seen nothing of this by-play, said with a sneer: "Surely you didn't come here to-night to tell me this?" "No, sir, I did not." He took from his pocket two letters the two which Shirley had sent him and held them out for Ryder's inspection.
When I saw this I marveled and said to myself, 'Doubtless in this animal must be some wondrous mystery, and Satan " "Satan the Stoned!" murmured Ryder's neighbor religiously. "Satan cozened me, so I led him without and mounted him ... and struck him withal.
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