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Updated: June 12, 2025
The lamp was lighted, and when he sat down Wyllard, who raised himself feebly on his pillow, turned a pallid face to him. "Charly tells me you picked the boat up," he said. "We did," said Dampier. "She had three or four planks on one side ripped out of her." Wyllard's faint grimace implied that this did not matter, and Dampier braced himself for the question he dreaded.
"In fact, that's partly why I don't want Gregory to throw any more of Wyllard's money away. You have done all I expect from you." "Then Hastings is to go on with the thing?" "Hastings," Winifred assured him, "will fail just as you would. This is a matter which requires to be handled delicately and effectively." "Then who is going to undertake it?" Winifred laughed.
Then it broke off, and Agatha saw Wyllard start as a man came into the room. He was a little, thick-set man with a weather-darkened face, dressed in rather old blue serge, and he looked and walked like a seaman. In another moment or two he stood still, looking about him, and Wyllard's lips set tight.
Afterward he contrived to get some whisky down Wyllard's throat, and then he set to work to wash the scalp wound, dropping into the water a little of the permanganate of potash, which is freely used at sea. When that was done he applied a rag dipped in the same fluid, and seeing no result of his efforts went back on deck.
It was two days later when Agatha, coming back from a stroll across the prairie with the two little girls, found Mrs. Hastings awaiting her at the homestead door. "I'll take the kiddies. Harry Wyllard's here, and he seems quite anxious to see you, though I don't know what he wants," she said. She flashed a searching glance at the girl, whose face, however, remained impassive.
He had a big roll of paper money in his pocket, and was feeling particularly pleased with himself, for prices had steadily fallen since he had joined in the bear operation Edmonds had suggested, and the result of it had proved eminently satisfactory. This was why he had just given Edmonds a further draft on Wyllard's bank, with instructions to sell wheat down on a more extensive scale.
She turned away, thus ending the conversation, but her manner had been so significant that Agatha, who did not sleep well that night, decided, if it was possible, to act on the well-meant advice. It happened that a little dapper man who was largely interested in the land agency and general mortgage business spent that evening with Hawtrey in Wyllard's room at the Range.
He was anxious about his patient, but not unduly so, for he had discovered long ago that men of Wyllard's type are apt to recover from more serious injuries. It was blowing very hard when the skipper stood near the wheel.
If he brings them back with no bones broken it will be a relief to me." Agatha had spent a month with Mrs. Hastings. When they were driving over to Wyllard's homestead one afternoon, the older woman pulled up her team while they were still some little distance away from their destination, and looked about her with evident interest.
Meantime, though neither of the men were aware of it, Sally had alighted from her wagon on the other side of the house, and two other vehicles were growing larger upon the sweep of whitened prairie. As she entered the homestead the girl met Mrs. Nansen, who informed her that Hawtrey was busy with Edmonds in Wyllard's room. Sally's eyes sparkled when she heard it, and her face grew hard.
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