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Still she wondered whether Muller was the real source of the traffic of which Sleighbells was the messenger. She was determined to find out. All day she watched through her detectascope. Once she saw Adele come in and buy more dope. It was with difficulty that she kept from interfering. But, she reflected, the time was not ripe. She had thought the thing out.
During the previous night, however, the sky had cleared, and now the air was filled with those familiar brumal sounds, the scraping of shovels and the ringing of sleighbells, that usually make such a pleasant appeal to those within-doors; but the bishop was merely moved to impatient longing for the spring.
December, with snow and cold, and icicles and sleighbells, substituted the lovely "fall," and turned the wearisome scenes of summer remnants, into the gay, sparkling picture of lively winter. It was December, and Honor Edgeworth's lover had not proposed yet.
"There was once a Swede," said the paper, "that was running away from the minions of the law, and took refuge in a cabin where they covered him with a gunny sack. When the Hawkshaws came they asked for the Swede. No information forthcoming. 'What's in that bag? asked the minions. 'Sleighbells, replied the accomplices.
Wool-lined mittens may seem to hark back to sleighbells and buffalo robes, but driving a spirited span hitched to a cutter was a summer occupation compared to steering an unheated automobile ten miles on a below zero morning with ordinary gloves. Mittens are not graceful but in them the fingers are not confined and therefore do not chill as quickly.
With cracks of the whips, and a jingling of sleighbells, the little cavalcade started off. The gloom settled slowly down, but Ruth and Alice helped dispel it by singing lively songs. Over the snow-covered road they went, now on a comparatively level place, and again down into some hollow where the drifts were deep. The horses pulled nobly.
Suddenly she left the bed and hurried to dress. At the mirror, with her hair lifted on her hands, she paused and again hearkened. Sleighbells stopped at the front door. Now some one was let in down there, and now, at her husband's room, Giles, his English man of all work, announced Mr. Byington: "Yes, sir, but he says if you can't come down 'e will 'ave to come up, sir."
The cold air was polka-dotted with snowflakes, and trembled to the loud, continuous jingling of sleighbells.
"Get it?" repeated Adele. "Why, they get it from that fellow they call 'Sleighbells. They call it 'snow, you know, and the girls who use it 'snowbirds. The law does prohibit its sale, but " She paused significantly. "Yes," agreed Constance; "but Sleighbells is only a part of the system after all. Who is the man at the top?" Adele shrugged her shoulders and was silent.
There had been a glimmer of shining tin, a halo of light from the tilted stove-lids, purple at the window panes and beyond snow and the distant tinkle of sleighbells in the barn. Hetty, he remembered, had lighted the kitchen lamp and gasped. A lovely child, proud and mischievous! Her youth startled him.
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