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It was very discouraging. So at last they returned to their own tent, to the yarn-spinning threshers and the silent old cowpuncher. Whitey soon gave up this form of effort, but Injun did not; possibly because Dorgan was in the other tent. Friday night came, almost the last of the threshing. Injun was absent on his eavesdropping quest, which so far had yielded nothing.
The unfamiliar pose and the rakish tilt of the soft hat were not among the chief clerk's remembered characteristics; but making due allowance for the distortion of the magnified facial outline, the profile was Hallock's. Having definitely settled for himself the question of identity, Judson renewed his search for some eavesdropping point of vantage.
'I wish myself out of this! breathed Havill to Dare, as he buttoned his coat over his white waistcoat. 'I told you it was true, but you wouldn't believe. I wouldn't she should catch me here eavesdropping for the world! 'Courage, Man Friday, said his cooler comrade. Paula and her lover backed yet further, till the hem of her skirt touched Havill's feet.
We are sorry to have to record the fact that Ziffa was a bad child a particularly naughty little girl. She told lies, and was a little thief, besides being fond of that despicable habit styled eavesdropping. She listened behind doors and curtains and at key-holes without feeling a particle of shame!
Who could it be? for none of the servants ever entered these rooms, and she had never known of any stranger being invited thither. She stopped and listened for a moment or two. But she could make out nothing distinctly, and then she flushed hotly to think that she had been tempted to eavesdropping.
Meantime the gang were anxiously waiting to hear the result of Rigby's conference with the man whom they had caught eavesdropping around the tavern. Rigby rejoined his friends and customers, who at once crowded around him. "Well, who is the fellow?" "He's all right, boys; you remember what I told you about strangers being around here on the lookout for Vance!" "Is that fellow one, then?"
"But, Arabella," began the bewildered nurse, "I " She stopped, unable to divine the connection between Lorry's eavesdropping and this sudden determination to live. "Don't be frightened. I'll make her promise she won't tell." "She might keep her word, an' she mightn't; an' if Susan an' Bella was to find out I'd died because he never came back an' left me an old maid, I couldn't rest in my grave.
"Yes, you've a right to know, if you are going to try your fortune with Octavia." The major marched through the three drawing rooms to see that no inquisitive servant was eavesdropping, and, finding all deserted, he resumed his place, while young Annon lounged on a couch as he listened with intense interest to the major's story.
'Is said to have said of you, you should add, Rotherwood, put in the colonel. 'It is a decree worse than eavesdropping. 'Oh, Regie! exclaimed his sister. 'Well, not perhaps for your own honour and conscience, but the keyhole is a more trustworthy medium than the reporter.
It was recollection of the events of the preceding night that had brought the burning blush to Myra's cheeks, and the thought of the interpretation the old woman might have put on what she had seen and heard. "Just as well, perhaps, that she does not understand English, as she was probably eavesdropping all the time," thought Myra.
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