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Updated: June 21, 2025
Constable Williams, blinking at the sudden darkness of the sitting room, stepped aside and made way for a straight, bronzed figure wearing the stripes of a Sergeant, who was already acknowledging with a winning smile Tressa's unspoken welcome. "Torrance, shake hands with Sergeant Mahon. He's been sent up to clear "
Torrance met them with extended hand. "I hope my little conversation with my daughter didn't raise false hopes, Big Chief. I haven't a drop that's fit to swallow." The Indians stared at the extended hand in silence. "I don't know whether they shake hands in your language," explained Torrance, "but it's all the rage with us. I'm straining to show how pleased I am. Ah how's all the little papooses?
'I come across witch tales here, there, everywhere; and the marvellous thing is, some of the people really seem to believe them. The younger members of the Torrance family fixed their eyes upon him with apprehensive stare. 'You can't imagine anything more degrading, continued the student, who came from afar. 'Degrading, of course. Mr. Torrance sipped his tea hastily.
Torrance; who little supposed, good, worthy man, as he continued to expound justification by faith, what was his true business: to play the part of derivative to a pair of children at the old game of falling in love. Christina was greatly relieved at first. It seemed to her that she was clothed again. She looked back on what had passed.
Torrance, the efficiency expert at the plant." Leisurely Miss Compton laid aside her book. Rising, she faced the newcomer, and as their eyes met, Jimmy barely stifled a gasp of astonishment and dismay. Elizabeth Compton's arched brows raised slightly and involuntarily she breathed a low ejaculation, "Efficiency expert!"
For with a bang that caused startled clerks in all directions to look up from their work he shattered the decorous monotone of the great store by slamming his sales book viciously upon the counter, and without a word of explanation to his fellow clerks marched out of the section toward the buyer's desk. "Well, Mr. Torrance," asked that gentleman, "what can I do for you?"
The next evening the Torrance family were walking to meeting. The student joined himself to Miss Torrance. He greeted her with the whimsical look of grave humour. 'You are to take a pound of pins, he said. 'I do not believe it would do any good, she interrupted eagerly. It struck him as very curious that she should assert her unbelief. He was too nonplussed to go on immediately.
The girl remained for half an hour longer, and when she left she went directly to the home of Elizabeth Compton. "I told you, Elizabeth," she said, "that I was going to see Mr. Torrance. You dissuaded me for some time, but I finally went today, and I am glad that I went.
"If it's only the trestle again " Torrance pointed dramatically across the trestle to the far bank. "This time it's our first callers." He turned to the pair of saddled horses tied to rings in the wall beyond the front door. "No, we're not riding to-night. We're entertaining. That is, if the local nabobs over there don't funk the trestle.
But Tressa was in the way, and by the time he reached the open only a tiny cloud of dust rising above the edge of the steep drop to the river bottom told the way the halfbreed had gone. The Sergeant rushed to the bank and looked down the hundred-and-fifty foot wall with a gasp. No need for a revolver there. With a shudder he drew back. Torrance stormed up beside him, rifle in hand. "Where is he?
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