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"Thar's never been a Tolliver convicted of killin' nobody, much less hung an' thar ain't goin' to be." "I'm glad you warned me," said Hale still quietly, "though it wasn't necessary. But if he's convicted, he'll hang." The giant's face worked in convulsive helplessness and he turned away. "You hold the cyards now, but my deal is comin'." "All right, Judd you're getting a square one from me."
Then he had seen Joe, loafing along the road in the moonlight, and he had relaxed, scarcely aware of the abominable choice he had faced. His own call. Tolliver shrank from the sharp blows. He forced himself to a minute attention. It was division headquarters. "Holding twenty-one here until thirty-three and the special have cleared." Twenty-one was a freight.
Not an unpleasant smile, but it was continually coming and going, as if he wished earnestly to win the favor of the men before him, but greatly doubted his ability to do so. Ruth Tolliver, knowing his genius for the cards, knowing his cold and unscrupulous soul, detested him heartily. When she saw his eyes flicker up and down the hall she hesitated.
"You can't never tell whether that ole devil is fer ye or agin ye, but I've been plum' sick o' these doin's a long time now and sometimes I think I'll just pull up stakes and go West and git out of hit altogether." "How did you learn so much about yesterday so soon?" "Oh, we hears things purty quick in these mountains. Little Dave Tolliver come over here last night."
Then General Lattimore came with a party of surveyors, and by the fall there was quite a village here." Jim came in with another gentleman, whom he introduced as Captain Tolliver. The Captain shook my hand with profuse politeness. "I am delighted to see you, suh," said he. "Any friend of Mr. Elkins I shall be proud to know. I heah that Mrs. Barslow is with you. I trust, suh, that she is well?"
"Oh, Tommy Tolliver, Tommy Tolliver," she called, "come here." Tommy rounded the curve in the road and stared at her. "Say, I thought you were going with Anne," he said. "They just passed me down the road." "Did they?" asked Judy, indifferently. "Well, at the last minute I thought I wouldn't go." "Well, you missed it," said Tommy, aggravatingly.
"Oh, Ruth," whispered Caroline Smith. "Oh, Ruth!" "It was close," said Ruth Tolliver, "but we're through. And, now that I'm about to leave it, I realize how I've hated this life all these years. I'll never stop thanking you for waking me up to it, Caroline." They reached the floor of the lower hall, and a strange thought came to Ruth. She had hurried home to execute the bidding of John Mark.
He came into our office one day with a tremor in his hand and a hunted look in his eye. He took a chair at my invitation, but rose at once, went to the door, and looked up and down the street, as if for pursuers. I saw Captain Tolliver across the street, and Bill's air of excitement was explained. I was relieved, for at first I had thought him intoxicated.
Madge dropped on the stage at Phil's side, forgetting her speech and the presence of strangers. Miss Tolliver and Miss Jenny Ann lifted Phyllis before Dr. Alden had had time to reach the stage. There was a dark bruise over Phil's forehead. In a moment she opened her eyes and smiled. "I am not a bit hurt, Miss Matilda; do let the exercises go on," she begged faintly.
"In fact," said Captain Tolliver to me, "I wahned Mr. Elkins against having him hyah. In any mattah of progress he's a wet blanket, and has proved himself such by these remahks." Mr.
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