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Lloyd put her finger to her lips, nodding her head, and Hattie closed her eyes again with a long breath. A certain great tenderness and compassion for the little girl grew big in Lloyd's heart. To herself she said: "God helping me, you shall get well. They believe in me, these people 'If any one could pull us through it would be Miss Searight. We will 'pull through, yes, for I'll do it."
Bennett caught his cap from his head and came toward her, exclaiming: "Miss Searight, I believe." And she, reaching her right hand over the left, that still held the reins, leaned from her high seat, shaking hands with him and replying: "Well Mr. Bennett, I'm so very glad to see you again. Where did you come from?" "From the City and from seventy-six degrees north latitude." "I congratulate you.
"Miss Searight," he began, his harsh, bass voice pitched even lower than usual, "what do you think I am down here for? This is not the only part of the world where I could recuperate, I suppose, and as for spending God's day in chipping at stones, like a professor of a young ladies' seminary" he hurled the hammer from him into the bushes "that for geology! Now we can talk.
When she had unbuckled Dan's collar and tossed it into the cart under the seat she inquired of the farm-hand as to where the new dog came from. "It beats me, Miss Searight," he answered; "never saw such a bird in these parts before; t'other belongs down to Applegate's." "Come, let's have a look at you," said Lloyd, putting back the whip; "let me see your collar."
For the moment Lloyd was willing to compare herself with the girl in the landau. Swiftly she ran over her own life from the time when left an orphan; in the year of her majority she had become her own mistress and the mistress of the Searight estate. But even at that time she had long since broken away from the conventional world she had known.
You see she has gone to nurse a dreadful case of typhoid fever out at Medford, near the City, and we're so worried and anxious about her papa and I. One nurse that had this case has died already and another one has caught the disease and is very sick, and Miss Searight, though she knew just how dangerous it was, would go, just like like " Hattie hesitated, then confused memories of her school reader coming to her, finished with "like Casabianca."
And yet the other alternative, what was that? It could be only that she had been afraid she, Lloyd Searight! Must she, who had been the bravest of them all, stand before that little band of devoted women in the light of a self-confessed coward?
As Lloyd Searight turned into Calumet Square on her way from the bookseller's, with her purchases under her arm, she was surprised to notice a drop of rain upon the back of one of her white gloves. She looked up quickly; the sun was gone. On the east side of the square, under the trees, the houses that at this hour of the afternoon should have been overlaid with golden light were in shadow.
He shot a glance about him. Not twenty yards away was the canal and the perilously narrow bridge the bridge without the guard-rail. "Quick, Miss Searight!" he shouted. "Jump! We can't hold him. Quick, do as I tell you, jump!" But even as he spoke Rox dragged him from his feet, his hoofs trampling the hollow road till it reverberated like the roll of drums.
It was already frozen so hard that his touch upon it resounded as if it had been a log of wood. "We shall be like this pretty soon. But before well, while I can, I want to ask you something about Lloyd Searight. You've known her all your life, and you saw her later than I did before we left. You remember I had to come to the ship two days before you, about the bilge pumps."
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