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Updated: May 16, 2025
But Mary thought she saw indecision too in his eye-lids, which were quivering almost imperceptibly. "You have offered me a bribe and a threat, sir. Two insults. Have you a third ready?" Mary heard a swift-drawn breath from her father, but he spoke quietly. "I have no more to say on that point," he said. "Then I must refuse," said Ralph instantly. "I see no reason to give up my work.
Gradually he became aware of another sound hard by, a sharp sound yet musical, and in a little, knew it for the "twang" of a swift-drawn bow-string.
Then by her sudden gleam I knew she had thrown off her garments, and stood white in the dazed moon. One moment she stood and fell forward. A streak of white shot away in a swift-drawn line. The same instant the moon recovered herself, shining out with a full flash, and I saw that the streak was a long-bodied thing, rushing in great, low-curved bounds over the grass.
Thereafter a voice hailed them as from far away, a sweet, deep voice, cheery and familiar as one heard aforetime in a dream, and betwixt every sentence came the twang of swift-drawn bow-string. "O tall brother, fall back! O gentle paladin, O fair flower of lusty fighters, fall back and leave the rest to our comrades, to me and my good bow, here!"
"You understood me last night and I was not deceived?" Her head drooped lower till the broad brim of her hat hid her face. With one quick step he reached her side. "Ruth, look at me." She never had been able to resist his compelling voice; and now with a swift-drawn breath she threw back her head and looked up at him fairly, with all her soul in her eyes.
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