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"It's scarcely used in this country, but Harry once did some stock-riding on the prairie. We'll push on a little." It became evident as they did so that the position favoured the pursuers now. A rock it was apparently incapable of climbing prevented the flight of the steer in one direction, and Miss Townshead had ridden forward ready to turn the beast if it attempted escape in another.
Townshead groaned despondently, "I am afraid the prospect of a balance is very small," he said. Again there was a stillness in the clearing, until the auctioneer's voice rose raucously expostulating. "It is really preposterous, gentlemen," he said. "I'm giving the place away." "Well, I'll go ten better," said somebody, and the girl held her breath,
"I wasn't looking at the dress, though it's a very pretty one," he said. "You see, except my mother and Miss Townshead, I have never spoken to an English lady." "But you must have been very young when you lost her," said the girl. Alton took off his hat, and pointed to a hillside shrouded with sombre firs. "Yes," he said quietly. "She sleeps up there, and in a little while my father followed her.
He was also wondering by what means he could lessen one difficulty, but it was Seaforth who devised one first. "Things will get better presently," he said. "Now Harry and I often remember the pleasant evenings we spent at your ranch, and we never got suppers like those Miss Townshead made us, at Somasco."
She had said very little, but there was a subtle something in her tone and bearing which implied a good deal, and he fancied it was not lost upon Miss Townshead. The latter, however, glanced round towards her employer, and her face was once more expressionless as she said, "Then I hope you will find him progressing favourably, and it would be a kindness to my father and myself if you or Mr.
What you have made of me counts for little after that," he said. Some time had passed when he walked quietly into the house. Nellie Townshead rose as he entered and stood looking at him very white in face. "I wonder if you will believe what I have to tell you, Miss Townshead," he commenced, and stopped when the rancher turned towards him,
"Then when the deal's fixed up all the winnings will not be counted over by Mr. Hallam." Miss Deringham heard nothing further, and understood very little of what had reached her, while though unusually gracious to Seaforth she found him distinctly unresponsive. She, however, lent Miss Townshead a hat when they reached the ranch, and made no comment when Seaforth rode home with her.
He walked straight forward, and stood with one hand on Alton's table looking down on him with wonder and anger in his face. His eyes were unusually bright, and there was a great contusion on his forehead. "Jack," said Alton simply. "Well, sit down there, and I'll try to talk to you. This is a devlish mess I've got into. Only heard about it ten minutes ago." Jack Townshead did not move at all.
That must be the drumming of hoofs. Can you hear nothing?" "The river," said Townshead despondently. "He will be too late directly. They are putting up the ranch." Confidence and dismay seemed to struggle together in the face of the girl, but the former rose uppermost, for she clung fast to hope. "There! Oh, why can they not stop talking? That is something now," she said. "No," said Townshead.
He laid the cups and dishes on the tray, gave it to Seaforth, and disappeared down a passage carrying the kettle, but not before Miss Townshead had noticed that while his comrade, who had apparently been used to the smoother side of life in England, displayed some awkwardness, everything the big rancher did seemed appropriate, and, because removing plates is not a man's task, she wondered at it.
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