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Updated: June 15, 2025
"So, then, they are not independent of each other always these fathers and children of Americans!" "No," said Mamie, shortly. Without knowing why, she felt inclined to resent Don Caesar's manner. His serious gravity gentle and high-bred as it was, undoubtedly was somewhat trying to her at times, and seemed even more so after Slinn's irreverent humor.
Don Caesar tied his horse to the fence, and hurriedly approached the house. The door, however, hospitably opened when he was a few paces from it, and when he reached the threshold he found himself unexpectedly in the presence of two pretty girls. They were evidently Slinn's sisters, whom he had neither thought of nor included in the meeting he had prepared.
Destitute as he was of imagination, and matter-of-fact in his judgments, he realized his new situation as calmly as he would have considered any business proposition. While he was decided to act upon his moral convictions purely, he was prepared to submit the facts of Slinn's claim to the usual patient and laborious investigation of his practical mind.
I've run over here in the rain, jist to have a sociable time with you all." "I knew it," said the old man, without looking up; "I knew you'd come." "You knew I'd come?" echoed Mulrady, with an uneasy return of the strange feeling of awe with which he regarded Slinn's abstraction. "Yes; you were alone like myself all alone!"
A few days later, when the fact of Slinn's identification with the paralytic of three years ago by the stage-driver became generally known, the doctor came in quite jubilant. "It's all plain now," he said, decidedly. "That second stroke was caused by the nervous shock of his coming suddenly upon the very spot where he had the first one.
In obedience to a gesture from Mulrady, Don Caesar mechanically took from his pocket a folded paper, and handed it to the paralytic. But Slinn's trembling fingers could scarcely unfold the paper; and as his eyes fell upon its contents, his convulsive lips could not articulate a word. "P'raps I'd better read it for you," said Mulrady, gently. "You kin follow me and stop me when I go wrong."
"If you didn't say Masters, how could I say it? I don't know any Masters." Don Caesar was silent. In another moment the happy tranquillity returned to Slinn's face; and Don Caesar continued: "It is not a long walk over the hill, though it is far by the road. When you are better you shall try it. Yonder little trail leads to the top of the hill, and then "
"Do I understand," said Don Caesar, sternly, "that Senora Mulrady has not told you that I entrusted to her an important letter, belonging to Senor Esslinn, which I had the honor to discover in the wood six months ago, and which she said she would refer to you?" "Letter?" echoed Mulrady, slowly; "my wife had a letter of Slinn's?" Don Caesar regarded the millionaire attentively.
Slinn's two sisters coming here I shouldn't wonder if they were far cleverer and talked far better than I do and think how I should feel if I knew that only a wretched pledge to me kept you from loving them!" She stopped, and cast down her eyes.
A cloud passed over Slinn's face. "Of course, of course!" said Mulrady, a little frightened at his tenacity in questioning the oracle. "Nat'rally, this was private, and not to be talked about. I meant, you had plenty of room for 'em without crowdin'; you kin tell me some day when you're better, and kin sorter select what's points and what ain't."
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