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"It's a left hand all right," he said. "But what makes you think it is Swain's?" "Because Silva expected to use both hands, till he learned that Swain had injured one of his. But for that, the blood needed to make the prints would have come from the victim, and Silva would have worn this glove, too; but Swain's injury gave Silva a happy inspiration! Wonderful man!" he added, half to himself.
I myself was ill at ease, for there was something in Swain's face a sort of vacant horror and dumb shrinking that filled me with a vague repulsion. And then to see his jaw working, as he tried to form articulate words and could not, sent a shiver over my scalp. "Very well," Godfrey agreed, at last. "We'll take the ladders, since you think it so important.
She flew into the house, and presently we heard her clear voice singing in the kitchen. The years of a man's life that count the most are often those which may be passed quickest in the story of it. And so I may hurry over the first years I spent as Mr. Swain's factor at Gordon's Pride. The task that came to my hand was heaven-sent.
I want them to hear your story, because I want their advice." There was a pucker of perplexity on Swain's face. "I've been trying, ever since I woke up this morning, to straighten out my remembrance of last night," he began, slowly; "but I haven't succeeded very well. At least, everything seems to stop right in the middle." "Go ahead," I said, "and tell us what you do remember.
Though living outside the institution they took their meals with the Sanitarium family and took part in the daily morning prayer service in the helpers' sitting-room and the after-supper service for patients and guests in the large parlors, enjoying to the full the spiritual atmosphere of the place. Swain's room.
"You have worked your way in vastly well, egad, with your Whig committee meetings and speeches. And now he is on his back, and you have possession, you choose to cut me off. 'Slife, I know what will be coming next!" I pulled him into Mr. Swain's private room, where we would be free of the clerks. "Yes, I am master here," I replied, sadly enough, as he stood sullenly before me.
Swain's condition. "He looks like a dying man, Richard," said he, "and we can ill afford to lose him." Even as we sat talking in subdued tones, the noise of a distant commotion arose. We had scarce started to our feet, Mr. Chase and I, when the brass knocker resounded, and Mr. Hammond was let in. His wig was awry, and his face was flushed. "I thought to find you here," he said to Mr. Chase.
He consoles himself with Lady Dudley, while swearing high allegiance to his Henriette. In sooth, the swain's position resembled the novelist's own. Honore was also inditing oaths of fidelity to his "dear star," his "earth-angel" in far-away Russia, while worshipping at shrines more accessible.
One was Swain's dazed and incoherent manner; the other was the absence of servants. As to Swain, I believed him to be a well-poised fellow, not easily upset, and certainly not subject to attacks of nerves. What had happened to him, then, to reduce him to the pitiable condition in which he had come back to us over the wall, and in which he was still plunged?
After one burning look at Swain's lowering face, he bent again above the still figure on the couch, and touched his fingers to the temples. What he saw or felt seemed to reassure him, for his voice was more composed when he spoke again. "I think you're right, Swain," he said. "But we'd better call someone." "Call away!" snarled Swain. "You mean there's no one here? Surely, her father ..."
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