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Always that land and people had appeared to her in sinister aspect; no doubt an impression acquired from reading melodramas written by Englishmen who, once upon a time, had given Russia preeminence as a political menace. Russia, in all things music, art, literature the tragic note. Stefani Gregor and Johnny Two-Hawks had roused the enmity of some political society with this result.
The girl had forgiven him; he knew it by the touch of her arm.... Old Stefani! A sob escaped him. Their arms tightened. "No; I was thinking of Stefani. Rather hard to die all alone because he loved me." Kitty longed to be alone. There were still many unshed tears some for Cutty, some for Stefani Gregor, some for Johnny Two-Hawks, and some for herself.
Johnny Two-Hawks, fiddling in front of the Metropolitan Opera House, to fill a poor blind man's cup! "Yes, Johnny. Now, yesterdays never were. For us there is nothing but to-morrows. Out there, in the great country where souls as well as bodies may stretch themselves we'll start all over again. You will be the cowman and I'll be the kitchen wench.
Because it was as though Two-Hawks had placed the wallet in her hands, charging her to guard it against the day he reclaimed it. There was no outward proof that the wallet was his. She just knew, that was all. Still, she examined the outside carefully. In one corner had been originally a monogram or a crest; effectually obliterated by the application of fire.
He was afraid of getting mixed up in a police affair and ran away." Behind the kitchen door Cutty smiled. She would do, this girl. "Sounds all right," said the policeman. "I'll take a look at the man." "This way, if you please," said Kitty, readily. "You come, too, sir," she added as the squat man hesitated. Kitty wanted to watch his expression when he saw Johnny Two-Hawks.
Cutty might mix his metaphors occasionally, but he wasn't going to mix his ghosts. He returned to his singular game. More tiaras and necklaces; and his brain took firm hold of the theme which had in the beginning lured him to the green stones. Two-Hawks. That name bothered him. He knew he had heard it before, but never in the Russian tongue. It might be that the chap had been spoofing Kitty.
Thus, while she saw the windows across the court there entered the other side of her mind a picture of the immaculate Cutty crossing the platform with Johnny Two-Hawks thrown over his shoulder. The mental picture obscured the actual. She had called him old. Well, he was old. And no doubt he looked upon her as a child, wanting her to spend the night at a hotel! The affair was over.
Imagine, Cutty! writing personalities about stage folks and gabfesting with Burlingame and all the while my brain boiling with this affair! The city room will kill me, Cutty, if it ever finds out that I held back such a yarn. But it wouldn't be fair to Johnny Two-Hawks. Cutty, did you know that your wonderful drums of jeopardy are here in New York?" "What?" barked Cutty.
He had faced it many times, but always with a chance. There was none here, and the absolute knowledge paralyzed him. Had Cutty been alone Kitty would have rushed at the madman; but the sight of Hawksley robbed her of all mobility. The blind alley she had entered and reentered so many times and so futilely crumbled.... Johnny Two-Hawks! As for Hawksley, he knew he had but little time.
He had a handsome estate, and lived sensibly. He sent Hawksley to England to school and spent a good deal of time there with him, teaching him how to play the fiddle, for which it seems Hawksley had a natural bent. He had to Anglicize his name; for Two-Hawks would have made people laugh. To be a gentleman, Kitty, one does not have to be a prince or a grand duke.
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