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Then another feller says, says he, "I tell ye we've got to find him; 't won't do to let him git away there'll be hell to pay." Thayor shook his head gloomily. "What have I done, Dinsmore, that I should be hunted even like you?" he sighed. For some moments the hide-out did not speak. Finally he continued: "I had a reason for what I done," and a strange glitter came into his eyes. "See here, Mr.
The camp sat in strained silence. Finally Margaret came over to her mother and whispered something in her ear. A weary smile crossed Alice's lips; then she beckoned to Holcomb, laid her hand on his arm, and looking up into his face said in a broken voice: "You will look after Margaret, Mr. Holcomb, won't you, if if anything has happened?" "All my life, Mrs. Thayor."
"I'm afraid, my dear Jack, I've kept you all waiting," the banker began. "A special meeting of the Board detained me longer than I had anticipated. I hope you will forgive me. I am not usually late, I assure you, gentlemen. This for me?" and he picked up his waiting cocktail. Holcomb, although his eyes had not wavered from Thayor, had not yet greeted him.
"The old fellow will get him yet," remarked Billy; "the miller's wing is broken he's lying flat on the water." "Your eyes are better than mine, Holcomb," declared Thayor. "Take an old trout like that," explained Holcomb, "and he'll always strike with his tail first; he broke that miller's wing the second time he rose."
He held back the heavy portiere screening the door of the living room. "Not a word to Margaret, remember," Thayor whispered, "about Le Boeuf, nor to Mrs. Thayor she doesn't like these things and I try to keep them from her all I can." "Certainly not," returned the doctor. "It would only worry her. Besides, I think I have a fighting chance to save him."
"Oh, I'd trust you anywhere in the world, trail or no trail. That's the way you got me out of Bog Eddy that night, and that's the way you saved Sam Thayor. He's coming, you know. Wants to meet you the worst kind. I'm keeping you for a surprise, but he'll hug himself all over when he finds out it's you." The young man raised his eyes in doubt. "Thayor? I don't know as I "
"I am afraid," he said, resuming his seat, "that the poor fellow's arm is in a rather discouraging condition. I shall see him again to-night." Thayor frowned the old worried look came again into his eyes. Suffering of any kind always affected him suffering for which in a measure he was responsible was one of the things he could not bear. "You don't say so!" he exclaimed; "that is bad news.
If Belle could keep Freme sober over Sunday it was impossible to keep him away from her Holcomb would speak a good word to Thayor for Freme and Belle and then they could both get a place as caretakers of the house during the coming winter, be married in the fall and so live happy ever after. The girl promised, and the next Saturday the test came.
Holcomb thought it strange that Thayor kissed his daughter and simply greeted his wife with the question, "I do hope you were comfortable, dear, coming up?" "The heat was something frightful," she replied, lifting the dragon-green veil wearily and binding it straight across her forehead. "My head is splitting." Holcomb glanced at her exquisite features.
Dollard straightened aggressively and with an oath passed out, slamming the door behind him. The closed door muffled somewhat the grumbling from the group on the veranda. Now it increased, plentifully interlarded with profanity. Sam Thayor, sitting at his desk, did not move. He drew from a drawer a packet of vouchers and began studying them, jotting the totals upon the yellow pad.
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