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Gone he had. Not once again, before the going down of the sun, now just tangent to the western heights, did they catch sight of Willett or Willett's horse.
In a dozen places about the ford and down the east bank, in a dozen places around the spot where lay the stricken officer, the earliest comers had seen and marked and protected against obliteration print after print of the moccasins of the Apache-Mohaves 'Tonio's own band. This in itself was wellnigh proof positive, but more was to come. Willett's trail was easily found and followed.
"Well, I suppose Willett's glad of a chance to join his chief?" he said interrogatively, though never looking up. "Not unless looks belie him," was the answer. Bentley bent lower over his work. "No physical hindrance that I know of," said he suggestively. "It's financial, I take it," said Bucketts sturdily. "Our investigator finds it expensive here at Almy."
Her mother had died while I was at Cambridge. Reverses did not subdue Mr. Willett's spirits, and the fascination modern "business" had for him seemed to grow in proportion to the misfortunes it had caused him.
For a time thereafter Case felt dazed, benumbed; but, as Willett recovered, he took courage again, and more drink, and tried to shoot his worthless head off, he said, when they came to arrest him. But when he heard of Willett's doings at Prescott, and had been openly taunted by Dooley, he determined to lose his life another way, if need be, in bringing Willett to justice.
Willett's sleigh was in the trader's stable, and Willett himself biting his nails and swearing in Almira's parlor while Mrs. Darling was putting the finishing touches to Almira's toilet. Willett had driven out solus this time, thinking to persuade Mrs.
"By heaven," said Archer, "'Tonio was right in saying we were cut off, isolated here, and if he hadn't slipped away in that mysterious fashion I'd rather take his word than than Willett's impressions. Where has Willett been all morning anyhow? He never came near me!" Everybody within earshot knew, and nobody answered. Archer looked queerly about him.
As I paused in a corner of the room my eye fell upon Nancy's father. McAlery Willett's elation seemed even greater than Ham's. With a gardenia in his frock-coat and a glass of champagne in his hand he went from group to group; and his familiar laughter, which once had seemed so full of merriment and fun, gave me to-day a somewhat scandalized feeling.
"The very fact that 'Tonio was cut and slashed conflicts with every theory in the case," said he. "Who would have cut and slashed him but Willett, if 'Tonio attacked him, and Willett had no knife." And still Camp Almy clung to the belief that 'Tonio was Harold Willett's assailant and would-be murderer. Even Bonner, a conservative, had this to say: "Willett admits he struck 'Tonio.
"I do not understand this as demanded," said Blackbeard, looking quickly into Willett's pallid face. "You will, when you remember that my wife and child would hardly be acceptable in army circles," was the quiet reply. "You mean you are going at once to marry her?" "What else should I do?" said Willett.
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