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She waited, leaning a little forward, watching Tisdale's face, while a sort of incredulous surprise rose through the despair in her eyes. "There were women at Fairbanks and Seward after the first year," he went on. "Bright, refined women who would have counted it a privilege to share things, his hardest luck, with David Weatherbee. But the best of them in his eyes was nothing more than a shadow.
The story of Essie Tisdale's marriage with Dubois followed, and even the news editor's pencil could not eliminate Sylvanus Starr's distinctive style. He had made the most of a chance of a lifetime.
"This surely is Hesperides Vale," she added. The amusement went out of Tisdale's face. "Yes, madam, and your journey's end. Probably the next post-box will announce the name of your friends." She did not answer directly. She looked beyond the heads of the team to the top of the valley, where two brown slopes parted like drawn curtains and opened a blue vista of canyon closed by a lofty snow-peak.
They re-stake and re-stake year after year and follow on the heels of each new strike, often by proxy. We have proof enough of all this to convince the most lukewarm senator." "You think then," said Foster quickly, "there is going to be a chance, after all, for the bill for Home Rule?" "No." Tisdale's voice lost its mellowness. "It is a mistake; it's asking too much at the beginning.
She leaned forward a little, compelling his glance, trying to reason down the tragedy in his face. "How can you blame yourself?" she finished brokenly. "You must not. I will not let you." "Thank you for saying that." Tisdale's rugged features worked. He laid his hand for an instant over hers. "If any one in the world can set me right with myself, it is you." After that they both were silent.
The colts, sobered by the sharp pull to the divide, kept an even pace now that they had struck the down-grade, and Tisdale's gaze, hard still, uncompromising, remained fixed absently on the winding road. Once, when the woman beside him ventured to look in his face, she drew herself a little more erect and aloof.
"I was thinking of him. But please don't say any more. I can't bear it here." So she was thinking of Weatherbee. Her emotion sprang from her sympathy for him. A gentleness that was almost tenderness crept over Tisdale's face. How fine she was, how sensitively made, and how measureless her capacity for loving, if she could feel like this for a man of whom she had only heard.
An emotion like a transparent shadow crossed his listener's face. "That changes everything," she said. "But of course you returned the next day with a horse to do as you promised, and afterwards helped her out to civilization." "I saw Louis Barbour buried, yes." Tisdale's glance traveled off again to the distant Pass.
I may never be able to fully refund you but shall do my best. And this other too. Mr. Banks, was that Mr. Tisdale's suggestion? Did he share that expense with you?" "No, ma'am, he let me have that chance when we talked it over. I had to get even with him on the project." "Even with him on the project?" "Yes, ma'am.
It fitted snugly enough for a false bottom, and she was obliged to reverse the box to remove it, prying slightly with a paper-knife. Tisdale's name was lettered across the cover, and the first pages were written in his clear, fine draughtsman's hand; then the characters changed to Weatherbee's. She turned to the last ones.
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