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And with that the overwrought man broke down, too. Yesler, moved a good deal himself, maintained the burden of the conversation cheerfully. "That's all settled, then. Tell you I'm right glad to get a competent man to put in charge. Things have been running at loose ends, because I haven't the time to look after them. This takes a big load off my mind.
I asked Miss Lowe to stay with me all night, but, of course, she feels feverish and nervous after this excitement. Couldn't you send a man to watch the rest of the night out in the house?" "Why don't You stay, Mr. Yesler?" the doctor suggested. "You could sleep here, no doubt." "You might have your meeting here. It is neutral ground. I can phone to Mr.
But her caller preferred to force from Aline's own lips this affidavit of health. Even his audacity could not ignore his host entirely, but it gave him the least consideration possible. To the question which still rested in his eyes the girl-wife answered shyly. "Indeed, I am perfectly well. I have done nothing but sleep to-day and yesterday. Miss Yesler was very good to me.
I've lived here twenty years, and I never found it necessary except on special occasions. When it comes to whisky, I reckon we'd all be better without it." Yesler made his escape at the earliest opportunity and left them alone together. He lunched at the club, attended to some correspondence he had, and about 3:30 drifted down the street toward the post-office.
This only is the witchcraft I have us'd." Virginia quoted softly to herself, her eyes on the young woman so finely unconscious of the emotion that thrilled her. Not until the clock in the hall below struck two did Yesler remember his appointment in the Ridgway Building. The doctor had come and was about to go.
Three days later Sam Yesler and the old man broke trail through from the C B Ranch and rescued us." It was so strange a story that it came home to Eaton piecemeal. "Three days alone with Harley's wife and he rescued you himself." "He didn't rescue me any. I could have broken through any time I wanted to leave her. On the way back his strength gave out, and that was when I roughed him.
The committee reported that it had examined seven witnesses, Yesler, Roper, Landor, James, Reedy, Kellor, and Ward, and that each of then had testified that former Congressman Pelton or others had approached him on behalf of Warner; that an agreement had been made by which the eight votes being cast for Bascom would be give to Warner in consideration of $300,000 in cash, to be held in escrow by Yesler, and that the committee now had the said package, supposed to contain the bills for that amount, in its possession, and was prepared to turn it over to the legislature for examination.
She's been done for a long time, but she hung on like a thoroughbred," explained Yesler from the snow-bank where Aline had fallen. He had her in his arms and was trying to get at a flask of whisky in his hip-pocket. "All right. I'll take care of her, Sam. You go ahead with your horse and break trail. I don't like the way this wind is rising.
But we can talk of that after we look it over." In his embarrassment he looked so much the boy, so much the culprit caught stealing apples and up for sentence, that Norma Pelton's gratitude took courage. She came across to him and held out both hands, the shimmer of tears still in the soft brown eyes. "You've given us more than life, Mr. Yesler. You can't ever know what you have done for us.
All this they glimpsed momentarily before the press closed in on the tragic scene and cut off their view. While Harley had been in no way responsible for Pelton's murderous attack upon Yesler, public opinion held him to account. The Pinkertons who had, up till this time, been employed at the mines, were now moved to the hotel to be ready for an emergency.
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