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"If he does come back, you'll tell me, won't you, ma'am? An' then there'll never be an Alva Dale to bother you again or to go around robbin' honest men, an' tryin' to get them mixed up with the law." And now he turned from the girl and spoke to Dale: "You go right back to Okar an' tell Maison an' Silverthorn what has happened here tonight.
Nyland flung back at them as he raced toward town. "I reckon we might as well go back," said the sheriff to his men. "The clean-up has took place, an' it's all over or Sanderson wouldn't be back. We'll go back to Okar an' have a talk with Silverthorn. An' mebbe, if Dale's around, we'll run into him." The posse, led by the sheriff, returned to Okar.
On the instant there came into his unmoved eyes and his matter-of-fact countenance a look of sentiment so incongruous as to be almost laughable. "I wish I could have done it, Thorny," said he, wistfully. "Hold on, Vibbard," I interposed. "Don't be discouraged." He paid no attention. Upon this Silverthorn fired up. "Hullo, Bill, this won't do!
Margery returned home, as she had decided, and resumed her old life at Silverthorn. And seeing her father's animosity towards Jim, she told him not a word of the marriage. Her inner life, however, was not what it once had been. She had suffered a mental and emotional displacement a shock, which had set a shade of astonishment on her face as a permanent thing.
But I decided not to disturb the already troubled waters any more. Silverthorn, however, expressed this idea: "You'll be thinking," he said to me, with a smile, "that I am going to get the upper hand in this bargain; and I know there seems a greater chance of it.
"But I hear hard things said of him," I persisted. "Reports have lately come to me as to some rather close, not to say sharp, bargains of his. He is successful; perhaps he is changing." For the first time I saw Silverthorn angry. "Never say a word of that sort to me again!" he cried, with a demeanor bordering on violence.
I've known Silverthorn folk, quick and dead, for the last couple-o'-score year, and I've never knew one so three-cunning for harm as thee, my gentleman lime-burner; and I reckon it one o' the luckiest days o' my life when I 'scaped having thee in my family. That maid of mine was right; I was wrong.
It turned out, on inquiry, that only Vibbard was of age; his friend being quick in study, had entered college early, and nearly two years stood between him and his majority; so that, if their contract was to be binding, they would have to defer it for that length of time. I was prepared for their disappointment; but Silverthorn, after an instant's reflection, seemed quite satisfied.
"Yes, I suppose so; or draw it down, either," I replied. But I saw at once that my flippancy did not suit the occasion, for the two young fellows glanced at each other very seriously and seemed embarrassed. "What do you want me to do?" I asked. Silverthorn now spoke, in his soft light inexperienced voice, which possessed a singular charm. "It's all Bill's idea," said he, rather carelessly.
He's had information about us, an' is plannin' to hold us up. You know what for. Silverthorn an' the bunch has got a finger in the pie." That suspicion had also become a conviction to Sanderson. And yet, in the person of the sheriff and his men, there was the law blocking his progress toward the money he needed for the irrigation project.
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