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Good-by." She lost no time in calling for Bill Crowdy, the man whom Trevors had put into Tripp's place. "By the way," she said when the man with the voice which had sounded so boyish in her ears answered again, "who are you?" "Ed Masters," he told her. "Electrician, you know."
Trevors is in with 'em. Any man on the ranch that don't know that, don't want to know it!" He removed his pipe at last, and his look upon Benny was full of meaning. "Roll that in your dough, Cookie, an' make biscuits out'n it." "Go easy there, grandfather," growled Benny. "That's something I ain't learned," was old Carson's ready answer, lightly given.
Get him, Buddie. Oh, for Gawd's sake, Buddie, go get him!" Trevors was upon him again, but Lee slipped aside, even rolled over, managed to get to his feet. Again Trevors bore down upon him, a new leaping fire in his eyes. Again, though barely in time, Bud Lee slipped away from him. He drew Trevors's harsh laugh after him and Trevors's questing, eager fists.
Trevors moved to lift a hand; then sank back a little farther in his chair, his face twisting in his pain. "Put some milk in it," he snarled. "Then hold it to my mouth. For the love of Heaven, hurry, man!" Then no man there doubted longer the mad tale Bud Lee had brought them. Down from Trevors's sleeves, staining each hand, there had come a broadening trickle of blood.
The girl had been lost to her, whether through death when an infant, or some tragic accident when a young girl, Judith never knew. But Ruth's heart had been bound up in that baby of hers; when madness came, it centred and turned upon the return of her child, "Who had run away from her, but who would come back some time." Trevors, having learned of her mad passion, had shaped it to his purpose.
He would give her what she wanted his good name and his good looks and her neighbours' envious confusion and she would give him what he wanted, her prosperity and her experience. North Farthing House was poorer than Ansdore in spite of late dinners and drawing-rooms the Trevors could look down on her from the point of view of birth and breeding but not from any advantage more concrete.
Out of the tail of his eye he saw the swift approach of Bayne Trevors. The general manager's face was black with rage and through that dark wrath showed a dull red flush of shame. He walked with his two arms lax at his sides. "Give me a cup of coffee, Ben," he commanded curtly, slumping into a chair. "Hurry!" Benny, looking at him curiously, brought a steaming cup and offered it.
"I must say," said Belle Trevors, "that dear Lillie does astonish me. Now, I shouldn't want to have that dissipated Danforth lounging in my rooms every day, as he does in Lillie's: and then taking her out driving day after day; for my part, I don't think it's respectable." "Why don't you speak to her?" said Lottie Cavers. "Oh, my dear! she wouldn't mind me.
"I'd say the same," answered Lee deliberately, "that I'd say to a man that offered me two bits for Daylight or Ladybird. I just naturally wouldn't say anything at all." "Who are Daylight and Ladybird?" demanded Trevors. "They're two of my little horses," said Lee gently, "that no man's got the money to buy." Trevors smiled cynically. "What are the seventy-three colts worth then?"
She had been gone for three full days; she was somewhere in the clutch of Trevors or of one of his cutthroats. He thought of her, of Quinnion's red-rimmed, evil eyes, and as he had not prayed in all the years of his life Bud Lee prayed that night. Lee left Hampton securely bound and under Tommy Burkitt's watchful eyes in the old cabin, and rode straight back to the ranch-house.
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