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In the short silence that followed, the quick-drawn breath of many excited and some agitated people could be heard. Among the latter were Mrs. Tynan and her daughter and Malachi Deely; among those who held their breath in suspense were John Sibley, Studd Bradley the financier, and the Young Doctor.
As for the tar-and-feathers, you might leave that to me. I think I can arrange it. "I'll turn the hose on him as he goes out, if you don't mind," the irate mother exclaimed as she left the room. Crozier nodded. "Well, that would be appropriate, Mrs. Tynan, but it wouldn't cleanse him. He is the original leopard whose spots are there for ever."
"What is your name?" "James Gathorne Kerry, as I have already given it to the court," was the calm reply. "Where do you live?" "In Askatoon, as I have already said in evidence; and if it is necessary to give my domicile, I live at the house of Mrs. Tyndall Tynan, Pearl Street as you know so well." The tone in which he uttered the last few words was such that even the judge pricked up his ears.
In any case, the coming of the wife must alter all the relations existing in the household of the widow Tynan. The old, unrestrained, careless friendship could not continue. The newcomer would import an element of caste and class which would freeze mother and daughter to the bones.
Like many a speculator, Malachi Deely would have made no profit out of his bet in the end, for Shiel Crozier had had no trouble with the law, or with another man's wife, nor yet with any single maid not yet; though there was now Kitty Tynan in his path. Yet he had had trouble.
"He loves horses so," remarked Mona, as though she could tell Mrs. Tynan and the Young Doctor anything about Shiel Crozier which they did not know. "Kitty rides well, doesn't she?" asked Mrs. Tynan of Crozier. "What a pair girl and horse!" Crozier exclaimed. "Thoroughbred absolutely thoroughbred!"
I asked her to cable me, and she hasn't. I wrote such a nice letter, too. I did it for his sake." The Young Doctor laid his hands on both her shoulders. "Kitty Tynan, the man who gets you will get what he doesn't deserve," he remarked. "That might mean anything." "It means that Crozier owes you more than he can guess." Her eyes shone with a strange, soft glow. "In spite of opening the letter?"
Going forward to him Mona shook him warmly by the hand. Then she went up to Mrs. Tynan and kissed her. "I would like to kiss your daughter too, Mrs. Tynan," Mona said.... "What are you looking at so hard, Shiel?" she presently added to her husband. He did not turn to her. His eyes were still shaded by his hand. "That horse goes well yet," he said in a low voice. "As good as ever as good as ever."
Just as the great surgeon performed his operation over and over in his sleep, so Kitty Tynan, through long hours that night, and for many nights afterwards, saw the swift knives, helped to staunch the blood, held the basin, disinfected the instruments which had made an attack on the man of men in her eyes, and saw the wound stitched up the last act of the business before the Young Doctor turned to her and said, "You'll do wherever you're put in life, Miss Kitty Tynan.
That was why Kitty Tynan had always a good background; for what her bright colouring would have been in the midst of gaudy, cheap chintzes and "Axminsters," such as abounded in Askatoon, is better left to the imagination.
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