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"So far as I am concerned the conversation is closed. And," drily, "the door is open." The anger in Wayne Shandon's heart, unchecked at last, blazed in his eyes. "I'll go now," he said shortly. "I have no wish to enter a man's house where I am not welcome. But what I have said I have meant. I shall see Wanda when I can, and when she will come to me as she will some day, I shall marry her."
It all happened while you were going East with your brother's body; I believe that it occurred while your train was being held up a few minutes in Reno." Shandon's bewilderment seemed to please Kinsell. He chuckled softly, and then, his face growing thoughtful again, he went on. "You'll remember that the train is scheduled to stop for fifteen minutes in Reno?
Martin left the room and went to the kitchen in search of Mrs. Leland. Hume came to the window where Helga was standing. "So you are a friend of Red Shandon's, are you?" he said bluntly. "Am I?" The lift of her brows asked him very plainly what he meant by that and what business it was of his.
"I'm pretty close up right now," was Shandon's answer. "I've spent a good bit lately and I don't want to sacrifice any more cattle. But " "Oh, well," laughed Hume, "it doesn't make any difference. I thought that you might have a little sporting blood, you know. You must have done a lot of talking, Shandon."
Ten minutes later Helga Strawn and her guide left the Bar L-M. During the long ride, although Dart seemed the most ingenuous of creatures, Helga Strawn obtained no satisfactory report of the news which he had brought and which had so obviously steeled Shandon's will. An hour before they came to the Echo Creek the snow ceased abruptly and it began to rain.
"He could eat Thelma for breakfast!" "Johnnie and he ain't quite seven yet!" protested Shandon, eagerly. Mrs. Larabee gave her an astonished look, puckered up her forehead, nodded profoundly. "That's right," she said. Then she dragged the wriggling small body from Shandon's lap and held the wondering, soft little face against her own.
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