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"You can understand what I told you?" A slow glow crept into Alton's eyes. "Oh, yes, it's all quite plain," he said. "When you find a mineral claim you have got to record it in fifteen days, or it goes back to the Crown, and I couldn't do that, you see, because I was lying for weeks at Somasco.
"No," said Nellie Townshead with a curious expression. "They are from the old country, but I only met them once or twice at Somasco." The man glanced at her thoughtfully. "Yes," he said. "I kind of fancied the lady didn't mean to be nice to you." Miss Townshead smiled, though there was an ominous brightness in her eyes. "I scarcely think she would take the trouble to make me feel that," she said.
Accordingly he hoped for the best, and resigned himself to Horton, who grew more assured of the beneficence and legality of his proceedings during the journey to Somasco, where Seaforth accompanied him, and as soon as he arrived there sent round demanding the attendance of all the ranchers in that vicinity at his store, in the name of the law.
"I am afraid it is going hardly with the man," he said suggestively. "'My partner met with accident his condition is critical. The message left Somasco yesterday." There was a rustle at the adjoining table, and the girl's pencil fell to the floor.
"Alton of Somasco is a somewhat busy man, but both he and his partner seem to have suspended their energies this morning," he said. "No doubt wild-beast taming has its fascination, but one might fancy it was apt to prove a somewhat disconcerting and perilous amusement." "Yes?" said the girl in a tone of languid inquiry. Deringham nodded.
"It is a question of temperament," said Deringham. "Personally, I do not think it would. Indeed, one could fancy that a man of taste would sooner be interred decently, which is why I will take a very little of the tea. You see, our mode of life in England, unfortunately, depends to some extent upon my retaining the good will of Mr. Alton of Somasco.
Then his slow, enduring stubbornness came to his help again as he remembered that there yet remained to him the fight with Hallam. "I was a fool. She only wanted to be kind," he said. Still, he groaned in a fit of passion as the memory of one moment at midnight in Somasco ranch returned to him, for all his pulses throbbed feverishly as he felt in fancy the warm white arm steal round his neck.
"Do you know I fancy that Alton of Somasco would with a little training make his mark at home," she said. "Has he mentioned any intention of returning with you?" Deringham's face grew a trifle sombre. "He has not. We will talk of something else," he said.
Both knew that a time of prosperity was approaching for Somasco, and had decided more or less correctly that it would lead to affluence the man who had control of the valley; but while Alton had striven with arduous toil to bring about this consummation, Hallam of the Tyee was waiting while those he meant to plunder worked for him.
Forel will not have time, and there's another woman anxious to do a little for Somasco. Give me a pencil, Harry, and begin right away." Alton only flung her a grateful glance, and dictated rapidly, until Seaforth appeared in the doorway flushed with haste, when shouting his thanks after him he ran down the stairway. Nellie Seaforth laughed a little. "Good fortune go with him.
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