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Updated: May 11, 2025
The sudden sound brought a terrifying result, for with a startled cry the undersized cow-man leaped as if touched by a living flame. Like a flash of light he whirled and poised on his toes, his long, evil-looking revolver drawn and cocked, his tense face vulturelike and fierce. His eyes glared through his spectacles, his livid features worked as if at the sound of his own death-call.
The passage in particular which Ferrier's dying hand had marked he recalled the gleam in Barrington's black eyes as he had listened to it, the instinctive movement in his powerful hand, as though to pounce, vulturelike, on the letter and his own qualm of anxiety his sudden sense of having gone too far his insistence on discretion. Discretion indeed! The whole thing was monstrous treachery.
Melrose had flatly refused even to see his wife and daughter whom he had left in poverty and starvation for twenty years. Upon these facts the twin spirit of romance and hatred swooped vulturelike. Any story of inheritance, especially when charm and youth are mixed up with it, kindles the popular mind.
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