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Then, in a desperate appeal, "Kate, I'd fire your two boys, Nick and Pete. They're mixed up in whisky-running, I know. When Stanley Fyles gets around they'll be corralled, sure, and I'd hate him to think we employed such men. Don't you think that, Charlie?" she demanded, turning sharply and looking into the man's serious face.
But for myself, I'm not so sure of him." "Not sure of him? What are you afraid of? Whisky-running?" asked Jack, with a twinkle. There was no answering gleam of humour on Hill's face. "I never trust any man until I know him," he said. "He may be sound, or he may be a scoundrel. He's got to prove himself." "You take a fatherly interest in that mine," observed Jack.
Superintendent Jason was still angry at the manner in which the great whisky-running coup had been effected, and of the manner in which the perpetrators of it had slipped through the official fingers. He blamed everybody, and particularly Inspector Fyles, in whose hands the case had been placed. Nor had he been wholly appeased by the inspector's final offer.
Helen, too, was looking at her with quizzical eyes. "It's over that whisky-running a week ago. They're going to clean the place up. Fyles has sworn to do it. O'Brien told me this morning." For some moments after his announcement neither of the women spoke. Kate was thinking deeply. Nor, from her expression, would it have been possible to have guessed the trend of her thoughts.
"You make the condition impossible," he cried. "You have faith in that man. Good. I have overwhelming evidence that he is the man we are after. Until he is caught the whisky-running in this place will never cease." Kate refused to display impatience. She went on talking to the horse. "Isn't he obstinate? Isn't he? And here am I offering to show him how he can get the real criminals."
He could stamp one to a smear on his deck, but a river of them no man could fight. He swore the lilies had ruined his whisky-running years ago to the Atchafalaya lumber camps; they blocked Grand River when he went to log-towing; they had cost him thousands of dollars for repairs and lost time in his swamp ventures. Bareheaded under the semi-tropic sun, he glowered at the lily-drift.
"Now, look here, my man, the first time my troopers, who'll call round quite frequently, don't find you about your homestead, you'll land yourself in a tolerably serious difficulty. In the meanwhile, I'm sorry we can't bring a charge of whisky-running against you, but another time be careful who you hire your wagon to."
Courthorne yawned again openly and took from his pocket a letter that he had received the day before at another little town to which, in accordance with directions given, it had been forwarded him. It was from one of his whisky-running comrades and had somewhat puzzled him. "There's about one hundred dollars due you, and we're willing to pay up," it ran.
He is very polite; but pshaw, it is no use that, in whisky-running! To beat a great man, a man must be great. Tarboe Noir can lead M'sieu' Lafarge all like that!" It seemed as if he were pulling the nose of the concertina. Tarboe began tracing a kind of maze with his fingers on the deck, his eyes rolling outward like an endless puzzle. But presently he turned sharp on Joan.
It was on the second day after the whisky-running that Kate Seton was returning home after an arduous morning in the village. She was feeling unusually depressed, and her handsome face was pathetically lacking in the high spirits and delight of living usual to it. It was not her way to indulge in the self-pitying joys of depression.
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