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The jury were hardly inclined to accept these as proofs at first, inasmuch as the prisoner had never been insane before the murder, and under the tranquilizing effect of the butchering had immediately regained his right mind; but when the defense came to show that a third cousin of Hackett's wife's stepfather was insane, and not only insane, but had a nose the very counterpart of Hackett's, it was plain that insanity was hereditary in the family, and Hackett had come by it by legitimate inheritance.
The struggle to appear cheerful was so grim that the engineer dreaded his antagonist in this new guise more than he did when he was brutally open in his warfare. "Sit down, Hackett," commanded the colonel. "Hackett's a friend o' mine that is, in so far as I have friends, and he might as well be here to listen to what I have to say to you and what you have to say to me.
One of these houses had a little piazza, on which sat two children. From the open half-door and from two windows came light. "That's Hackett's house," said one of the boys. "Thanks, very much," replied the tramp, continuing to walk with them. The boys looked surprised at his not stopping at the house, but they said nothing. At the next corner the tramp spoke up: "I think I'll go back now.
"Hackett's dam's bust, shore!" she exclaimed in a moment. Gillsey turned upon her one of his deprecating, toothless smiles. "'T aint a-goin' ter tech us here," said he; "but I'm powerful glad ter be outer the Gornish Camp ter night. Them chaps be a-goin' ter ketch it, blame the'r skins!"
Hackett's languorous, curiously repellent monotone. "Don't you touch me!" Missy, stricken by the knowledge she was eavesdropping, peered about for a means of slipping out. But the only door, portiere-hung, was the one leading into the parlour. And now this concealed poor blundering Missy from the speakers while it allowed their talk to drift through.
As he passed down the long sandy street, toward the corner where his own house stood, the brooding group of loafers, waiting in Hackett's store for the distribution of the mail, watched him through the open door, and from under the boughs of the weatherbeaten poplar before it.
He replied that the smile was not for me that though he had apparently looked at me he had really been looking through me at a person about as different from myself as I could well imagine. "It's a poor rule that doesn't work both ways, so I then took my place by the door of our palatial residence, and gazed apparently at Hackett's Indian-red visage.
Good night, youngsters." The boys trudged on, and the tramp retraced his steps. When he reached the Hacketts' house, he paused at the gate. The children, a boy of eight and a girl of six, looked at him curiously from the piazza. "Are you Mr. Hackett's little boy and girl?" he asked. The girl stepped back to the hall door and stood there. The boy looked up at the tramp and answered, "Yes, sir."
Still it was a desperate risk, and Dolores had great doubts whether she should ever see her red Maori again. So in intense anxiety the two waited in Miss Hackett's parlour, where the good lady left them, as she said, to attend to her accounts, but really with an inkling or more of the state of affairs between them.
Tom Driscoll had landed at Hackett's Store, two miles below Dawson's, just about half an hour earlier, the only passenger for that lonely spot, and had walked up the shore road and entered Judge Driscoll's house without having encountered anyone either on the road or under the roof. He pulled down his window blinds and lighted his candle. He laid off his coat and hat and began his preparations.
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