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"He is a demagogue, pure and unadulterated." Loring did not attempt to refute the charge. "Are he and his party likely to win?" he asked. "God knows," said Kent. "We have had so many lightning transformations in politics in the State that nothing is impossible." "I'd like to know," was Loring's comment. "It might make some difference to me, personally." "To you?" said Kent, inquiringly.
The other's two hands on the shoulders of General Loring's aide had undoubtedly the weight of the body being thrown forward the appearance of an assault. Stafford's foot slipped upon the freezing snow. Down he came to the earth, Cleave upon him. A voice behind them spoke with a kind of steely curtness, "Stand up, and let me see who you are!" The two arose and faced Stonewall Jackson.
"I am almost as old a friend of Romayne as my husband and I am very anxious about him." The Major looked embarrassed. "I can hardly answer your ladyship," he said, "without reviving painful recollections " Lady Loring's impatience interrupted the Major's apologies. "Do you mean the duel?" she inquired. Lord Loring interposed.
It was a new thing for her to plead with him, and he promised in an access of tumultuous hope reawakened by her changed attitude. But afterward, when he was walking down-town with Loring, the episode troubled him a little; would have troubled him more if he had not been so deeply interested in Loring's story of the campaign in the East.
"This is horribly sudden," he said, as he thrust an open dispatch into Loring's hand. It was the brief announcement that the General commanding the department of California, the chief Loring had so recently left, had dropped dead at his desk the night before. Little as he had liked him, the Engineer was shocked and grieved. "It may make grave changes," said the adjutant-general a little later.
Retook the cash from the grinning stakeholder, counted out Loring's half and pushed it over to that much discomfited gentleman. "I don't want to rob you!" he quoted mockingly. "But if I had time I'd have kept you on the anxious seat a while. There's your jack of hearts, under your feet!" "Why, you fat, old swindler!
She was not surprised by the answer her suspicion of the priest had remained in her mind from the night of Lady Loring's ball. The future of her married life depended on her capacity to check the growing intimacy between the two men. In that conviction she found the courage to face Winterfield. How should she meet him?
Then he recognized Blake, then gradually the two men at the wall, and then at last Blake spoke. "There are your followers, Loring." A moment's careful scrutiny, then a nod of assent was Loring's answer. "Now, then, you two," said Blake. "I've suspected you before. Now I more than suspect you.
Loring's precautions in having the office brightly lighted and a show of armed men about had held the would-be robbers at bay during the early hours of the night, and then his prompt action in hurling himself on the mysterious stranger who came stealthily in at Folsom's back gate, had finally and totally blocked the game.
The invitations were issued at an unusually early hour; and it was understood that nothing so solid and so commonplace as the customary supper was to be offered to the guests. In a word, Lady Loring's ball was designed as a bold protest against late hours and heavy midnight meals. The younger people were all in favor of the proposed reform. Their elders declined to give an opinion beforehand.
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