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Updated: June 16, 2025
Fallon was driving; Shayne was beating his arms across his chest. And the second team was fagged and caked with frozen lather. Big Louie had been breaking trail for twelve bitterly hard hours, but his animals were still far from spent not so tired in fact but what they could throw forward their heads and nicker at the sight of warm stables.
And it was Steve who found her, as he had known it would he, just before a second night of dread was closing in upon her. In circles of ever increasing radius he traveled at a foxtrot which thoughts of Fallon and Shayne and Harrigan would not let him abandon; but he had to run her down when he caught sight of her, for she fled like a wild thing before him.
Shayne agreed to make his payments in cash, so that Sansevero's name should not appear on the checks. But Christopher Shayne was more than skeptical about the duke's disinterestedness. "There is a rake-off for this one somewhere," he thought. He also thought that for once he had been mistaken in his judgment of character.
And Harrigan went back to his panting followers; twisting and spinning, his body swept Shayne and Fallon to the ground. Allison had not stirred, nor putty-faced Wickersham, nor the girl who stood with hands at breasts. And now toward them Stephen O'Mara wheeled. His legs would fail him, and he steadied them; blood blinded him, and he wiped it away. Swaying giddily, he managed, somehow, a smile.
Sansevero had been, in his opinion, a man who would sooner starve than defraud the government. So strongly did he believe this that although he had, as the duke knew, long coveted the Raphael, he would never have dared to approach Sansevero. After the duke had gone Shayne went out and personally sent a code cable announcing his purchase. "Well," he said to himself, "it's no business of mine.
There were words between them, for Steve saw the huge man's arm lift to strike Shayne to the ground, and then drop harmlessly back to his side. And Steve knew what that bit of pantomime meant. Big Louie had been to bid his team good-bye. There was a smudge of brown sugar across his coat, though the watcher was too far away to see that.
The visitor nodded as though there upon an affair of business that he was anxious to have terminated as speedily as possible. "Will you be seated? I think you will find this chair comfortable." Mr. Shayne indicated a chair with a wave of his hand. "The letter which I have from your Excellency is a trifle indefinite.
Shayne he glimpsed, automatically, and Fallon, faithful henchmen. And then Harrigan stood forth. Long arms dangling, palms back, almost to his knees, that red-headed one minced forward on the balls of his feet. Harrigan was redeeming a promise many weeks overdue. It was spring, and Harrigan had come back! "I'm here," he spoke to that bowed head, "if you are afther carin' to welcome me!"
"We also want to say to Mr. Parker," went on Shayne, "that on our part we'll do more to assist him than we'd do for any other man you could place here. We have a little explanation to make to him and " "No explanations for me if it's along the lines I apprehend, Mr. Shayne!" cried the young man, jokingly yet meaningly.
"We're going to show you who bosses this river, before we're done with you!" Fallon shouldn't have gloated; he shouldn't have threatened. And Shayne shouldn't have smiled. Steve had slipped the latch loose. Now he swung open the door. "Call for your time at the Morrison office," he said evenly, "and if you're going why, go!"
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