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I wouldn't wonder if it helped him get well! If you was Christians I'd say you showed the real Christmas spirit. But Lord perhaps ye do, all the same! I dunno!" Sam and Ike were so busy playing with the children that they did not hear. Gradually the tenement house faded and became a blur before Miss Terry's eyes.
For a moment no one spoke and I heard the click of Terry's revolver as he cocked it. Then it suddenly came over me what it was, and I cried out: "It's Cat-Eye Mose!" "Good Lord, he can see in the dark! Strike a light, some one," Terry said huskily. The sheriff struck a match.
Although it was dark when supper was over, he could not resist going out on the rocks and listening a few minutes to the waves as they beat upon them. There was no moon, but the lighthouse gleam over his head faintly outlined the swells, as one by one they tossed their spray up to where he stood; back of him the welcome glow of Uncle Terry's home, and all around the wide ocean, dark and sombre.
"That will break Terry's heart," said he to himself; "he never owned a gun, and now, to lose such a handsome one when it has been in his possession only a brief while, will grieve him as much as the loss of a dear friend." Just then young Linden caught the faint but clear notes of some one whistling.
A breathless moment and already the thing, appearing from the black nothingness, silhouetted but a moment against the sky, was gone and he vaguely saw Terry's face turned toward him while they sought to find each other's eyes and know if each had seen what the other had glimpsed. "It's impossible!" he muttered. "We are imagining things." "Wait!" said Terry. "Maybe after all "
Some idiot of a servant came rushing in, and said a courier was back from Captain Terry's command and that Mr. McLean was killed." "And she swooned or fainted?" asked Hatton, with evident interest. "Very nearly," answered Mr. Holmes, with grave face and eyes that never flinched. "I think she would have fallen down the stairs, had she not been caught in the nick of time."
Terry's voice Steve swung about, his anger suddenly quenched in alarm, his eyes seeking everywhere for her. It was Barbee who saw her first. Barbee called out, a strange note in his voice, and clapped his spurs to his horse's sides and went racing across the undulating lands toward her. Then Steve saw and old man Packard and the rest.
Was his "fool's errand" a formal request for Terry's hand in marriage and his "unusual story" a manly recital of the facts? And had this great advance in frankness included the telling of Ann? As he tossed sleeplessly from side to side, other problems leapt up to confront him. Had he done wisely in promising Maisie that, in a measure, he would compensate her for the loss of Adair?
Cattle and horses along her road awoke from their dozing in the moonlight, perhaps leaped to the conclusion that it was old Hell-Fire himself in their midst, flung their tails aloft and scampered to right and left, and Terry's car stood in front of Packard's door.
But when Marie had ceased to interest him as a "case," or a "type," or a "victim," the only bond remaining must be that of the pure individual soul or of the body. Terry's lack of sensuality his predominating spiritual and mental character precluded any strong tie of the physical kind.
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