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Updated: June 4, 2025
We left the half-stripped body on the blood-stained oil-cloth, and he led me into an office where a functionary sat behind a littered desk. "The papers? Thank you. You haven't examined them? Let us see, then." I handed over the leather note-case I had thrust into my pocket the evening before, and saw for the first time its silver-edged corners and the coronet in one of them.
Ordinarily Manuelito was wont to show his white teeth, and touch the broad, silver-edged brim of his sombrero, when "el capitan" reined back to see how he was getting along. To-day there was a sullen scowl for the first moment, and then, as though suddenly recollecting himself, the dark-skinned fellow gave a ghastly sort of grin and the captain felt certain that Pike's idea was right.
Somewhere in a distant part of the village a dog was howling dismally. "What makes that dog bark that way, Uncle Jed?" asked Babbie. Jed was watching Ruth, who had walked to the edge of the bluff and was looking off over the water, her delicate face and slender figure silver-edged by the moonlight. "Eh? . . . That dog?" he repeated. "Oh, he's barkin' at the moon, I shouldn't wonder."
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