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The shouting of the mob, the beating of the drum was receding toward the road. The flag snapped in the night wind. Billy put his face closer to Charlie's. The muscles of his jaw knotted and his hands clenched and unclenched. "Call it off!" he growled. Charlie returned Billy's stare for a long moment. Then sullenly, slowly, he turned and threw out across the night a long, shrill cry.
And he had taken all she gave, with colossal egoism, as his right accepting lightly all she surrendered with no thought for the innocence he contaminated, the purity he soiled. He had stained her soul before he had killed her body. His hands clenched and unclenched convulsively with the agony of remorse. Recollection was torture. Repentance came too late. Too late!
Sylvia was still standing in the doorway, watching him with grave and thoughtful eyes. But there was no invitation to him to return, and turning away again he walked on. Sylvia went up-stairs to her room. She unclenched her hand at last. In its palm there lay a little phial containing a colorless solution. But there was a label upon the phial, and on the label was written "cocaine."
The son of this Earl had sued to Charles I. for the restitution of part of his father's forfeited estates, but the grasp of the nobles to whom they had been allotted was too tenacious to be unclenched. The breaking out of the civil wars utterly ruined him, by intercepting a small pension which Charles I. had allowed him, and he died in the utmost indigence.
"This is what comes of your infernal meddling! What business had you to interfere? Why didn't you let him die? I've a notion " His hands clenched and unclenched before her eyes, and she sat with blanched face, certain that he was about to attack her perhaps kill her. She did not seem to care much, however, and looked up into his face steadily and defiantly.
Dyckman was astounded and frightened by her action. He put his hand out, but she unclenched his fingers from her wrist, mumbling: "Don't please!" "Why not? What's wrong with you, child?" How could she tell him? What could she do? She must do a lot of thinking. On one thing she was resolved: that she would not give Dyckman up. She would find Gilfoyle and get quit of him.
Sully's face went redder than ever, while his fingers clenched and unclenched. It was evident that the man feared to let his anger get the better of him. "If he ever lets go at me, I'm a goner," thought Phil understanding that, besides an almost ungovernable temper, the man possessed great physical strength. "I guess he won't do anything of the sort, unless I goad him to it.
Ruth thoughtlessly slipped after him and murmured over his shoulder: "Friend of yours?" Gethryn's fists unclenched and came out of his pockets and he and Ruth went away together, laughing under the trees. Mr Blumenthal stood where Rex had left him, holding out the bait-box and gazing after them. Then he turned and looked at the colonel and his wife.
"And you would advance the money at once?" "On a condition!" Once again their eyes met, and once again Barrymaine's dropped; his fingers clenched and unclenched themselves, he stirred restlessly, and, finally, spoke. "And your condition. Is it Cleone?" "No!" said Barnabas vehemently. "Then, what is it?" "That from this hour you give up brandy and Mr. Chichester both evil things."
While he was collecting a few necessaries and cramming them into his pockets, he never once ceased communing with himself in a low voice, or unclenched his teeth, which he had ground together on finishing Miss Brass's note. 'Oh Sampson! he muttered, 'good worthy creature if I could but hug you!
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