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"Oh, that's the detective," explained Joan. "So many people, you know; and so mixed. Everybody has them. Here's Tony at last." Tony Cornish was indeed making his way through the crowd towards them. He shook hands with a bishop as he elbowed a path across the room, and did it with the pious face of a self-respecting curate.
"He has been active all day, with half a dozen men going and coming under his orders. He missed you this afternoon." "I had a date to view the scenery up the Chagres river," laughed Ned. The patrol leader went back to the room where he had left Frank, George, Glen, and Peter. Tony had left for his father's camp and George Tolford had gone with him.
Tony's eyes dropped at the question, and he did not answer. "Is anything wrong?" Stephen insisted. "Yes, I'm afraid so. But set down close, Steve. I've somethin' great to tell ye." And sitting there in the dusk of even Tony poured into his companion's ears the story of that terrible scene in Giant Gorge, and of Dan's brave deed. Stephen listened spell-bound to the tale.
Willy Dickson was bad enough all the way home, without having more of it here. People would think I care what happens to Tony Taylor;" and she stood looking down at her father with wide-opened blue eyes that were as innocent of deception as a babe's. "I wish you did," her father said quickly. "He's one of the "
"I couldn't find it, sir," faltered the boy; "but I know I had it when I passed the bridge, for I was lookin' at it and rememberin' what you told me about it." Seabrooke waited for no more, but darted off upon the road back to the village, followed by Tony. "We're in a fix, now," whispered Lewis to Percy, "if there's going to be a row about that letter.
"How!" said Tressilian, who now for the first time interfered in their conversation; "did ye not say this Foster was married, and to a precisian?" "Married he was, and to as bitter a precisian as ever ate flesh in Lent; and a cat-and-dog life she led with Tony, as men said.
Did he tell you?" The other shook her head with a significant gesture. "He tells me nothing; he tells no one but Tony, and Tony tells me nothing; but I saw them talking together to-night, and he was very angry. I overheard some words.
And now the party began smoking as well as drinking; and an atmosphere was formed, which soon drove the Major out of the room not, however, before McKeon implored him to stay just for one handicap, as he wanted to challenge the bay gelding he drove under his gig; and as the Major was waiting for his hat, Tony threw a shilling on the table.
"It's how you get your lessons and stay high up in your class I don't understand," I answered, still using my compliment tactics. "I've only known you less than a month, so it might be just luck that you got first mention for your character sketch of Hawthorne in the rhetoric class; but Tony says you always get it.
Maybe Yaller-head could give you news about it if she wanted to. Only she don't, now she's got young Dickson. There ain't no mystery about where he came from." He was indignant at the calling in question of his word, and as he smarted himself, so did he try to make Tony smart.
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