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Toomey braided a wisp of hair to an infinitesimal end and said firmly: "Jap, we've simply got to do something! Can't you borrow?" "Borrow! I couldn't throw a rock inside the city limits without hitting some one to whom I owe money. Come again, Old Dear," mockingly. "Wouldn't Mormon Joe " "I'd starve before I'd ask that sheepherder!" His face darkened to ugliness.
"'Twouldn't be like Long Nolan to be skipping when he's needed by his friends," growled Toomey. "He's no quitter, if he was at Powder River," whereby it was Cullin's turn to get a dig, and little did he relish it. "That's another I owe you, Toomey," said he, "and we'll settle it by-and-by. Just now I'm thinking for your friend, if you are not.
Owing to a delayed train, her counsel was late yesterday in receiving some necessary papers, and it was feared the decision would have to be held over; but Judge Toomey, who is a personal friend of Mr. Moffatt's, held a night session and rushed it through so that the happy couple could have the knot tied and board their special in time for Mrs.
"I've been disappointed that you haven't," Kate replied, simply, "for your friendship has loomed like a mountain to me in my trouble." She was still counting on it! Mrs. Toomey got out a frightened: "Really?" "When we shook hands on it up there in the draw," Kate went on, sadly, "I didn't dream how soon or how much I should need you. And women do need each other in trouble, don't they?" earnestly.
He did not reply, but evidently found what he sought for he came out presently carrying a shotgun. "Are you going to try and raffle that?" Still he did not deign to answer, but preserved his injured air, and getting once more into his hat and coat started off with the martyred manner of a man who has been driven from home. Mrs. Toomey finally threw down her scissors with a gesture of despair.
Teeters, who suddenly dominated the scene from the door of the dining room where he had been listening intently. As if no longer able to contain himself, Teeters strode forward, shaking at Toomey the finger of emphasis: "Then," he cried, "you'll do your suin' from a cell! If I hold in any longer I'm goin' to choke! I'm goin' to speak, if she won't." He motioned towards Kate.
He had options on stock which gave him the controlling interest, he stated, and had little doubt that the remainder could be acquired easily. He urged Prentiss to come at his earliest convenience and look it over. Toomey sent the letter to the hotel in Chicago which Prentiss had given as one of his permanent addresses and it was duly forwarded.
Toomey changed the subject and the incident seemed forgotten, but Mrs. Rathburn's eyes rested upon Hugh frequently with a look that was inquiring and speculative. Kate's heart always hardened and her backbone stiffened involuntarily the moment she had her first glimpse of Prouty. Invariably it had this effect upon her and to-day was no different from any other.
She put her hand to her throat as though to lessen the ache there. "I can't tell you how much. And remorse it's like a knife turning, turning his eyes with the pain and astonishment in them when I struck at him so viciously in my temper; they haunt me. It's terrible." Mrs. Toomey fidgeted. Kate went on as though she found relief in talking.
Toomey had had a quaint conceit that if she listened attentively she would be able to hear Priscilla's heart jingling in her body rattling like a bit of ice in a tin bucket. Now the woman's mean, chaste little soul laid bare before her filled Delia Toomey with a dumb fury. Mrs. Pantin waited patiently for her answer, though the experience was a new one.
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