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Plume began again. "You can't do that way here now. That's broke up. But the way I tell you is the real way." He pictured Wickersham's wealth, his hardness toward his employés, his being a Yankee, his boast that he would injure Keith and shut up his mine. "What've you got against him?" demanded Mr. Bluffy. "I thought you and him was thick as thieves?"
She would brook no ad lib now. A low mutter in the north became an ominous murmur while Steve was following slowly in Wickersham's steps, and he realized what it meant. He stopped to stare at his handful of men, rearing their heads to listen, too. Steve had been all winter alone with the puzzle of his own inferiority which he could never understand.
Like huddled sheep, O'Mara's men and Wickersham's watched Joe bear him up the hill. Shayne and Fallon were bending over Harrigan; by the others he lay ignored. It was a mob without a leader until, as is the way in all crises, a new leader arose. Big Louie, stolid face no longer stolid, strode between those two factions and achieved the unknown heights for which his eyes had always hungered.
The old squire and Dave Dennison would take my life if I interfered with their rights." "You are prudent," said Ferdy. "I am forbearing," said Keith. Wickersham's tone was as insolent as ever, but as he leaned over and reached for a match, Keith observed that his hand shook slightly. And the eyes that were levelled at Keith through the smoke of his cigarette were unsteady.
Mr. Wickersham's real interest, however, lay in the mountains to the westward. And General Keith gave him some valuable hints as to the deposits lying in the Ridge and the mountains beyond the Ridge. "I will give you letters to the leading men in that region," he said. "The two most influential men up there are Dr. Balsam and Squire Rawson.
Or were those still the billows of the wide and trackless sea? She did not know or care. She would drift and meantime think of him, the old friend who had turned the evening for her into a real delight. Was he in love with Mrs. Lancaster? she wondered. Every one said he was, and it would not be unnatural if he were. It was on her account he had gone to Mrs. Wickersham's. She undoubtedly liked him.
"You know that is not true?" "Don't you believe him," said the other, gravely. Her eyes, as they rested on the girl's face, had a very soft light in them. "Well, we must make it up," she said presently. "You are going to Mrs. Wickersham's?" she asked suddenly. "Yes; Cousin Louise is going and says I must go. Mr. Wickersham will not be there, you know." "Yes." She drifted off into a reverie.
Wickersham's temper gave way. "Well, I know it. Do you suppose I am so ignorant as not to know anything? But I am not fool enough to give it away. You need not go bleating around about it everywhere." Plume's eye glistened with satisfaction. The superintendent's brow, which had clouded, grew darker. He had already stood much from this young man.
Wickersham was so taken aback that his dark face turned almost white, but he recovered himself quickly. "You are a madman, or some one has been deceiving you. You are the victim of a delusion." Keith, with his eyes fastened on him, shook his head. "Oh, no; I am not." A look of perplexed innocence came over Wickersham's face. "Yes, you are," he said, in an almost friendly tone.
Heading straight across an unknown country for the base of the mountain, Judge Wickersham's party unfortunately attacked the mountain by the Peters Glacier and demonstrated the impossibility of that approach, being stopped by the enormous ice-incrusted cliffs of the North Peak.
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