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Breaking the bullet out of a cartridge, he placed the blank charge in position in front of the striker, the case being firmly clasped by a bent nail. To the trigger, the spring of which he had eased to a slight pressure, he attached a piece of unraveled rope, and this he carefully trained among the trees at a height of six inches from the ground, using as carriers nails driven into the trunks.
It was he who unraveled the mystery which had cast a shadow over the good name of Hawermann, and who at the proper moment called Frank von Rambow home from Paris. When Hawermann had received the news that he was cleared, and Mrs. Behrens wished to go to him at once, uncle Bräsig drew her gently back to the sofa and said: "Not quite yet, Mrs. Behrens.
At this point in his thoughts there gradually limned itself in the brown man's mind the answer to that enigma which he almost had unraveled on the day he first saw Cissie Dildine pass his window. With it came the answer to the puzzle contained in the old Captain's library.
"Believe in your innocence, my darling?" he answered, suddenly. "Yes, before Heaven I do! You are innocent innocent as a little child. I intend to take you directly to my mother, and this mystery shall then be unraveled." Despite the girl's protestations, he insisted that it must be so, and the first outgoing train bore them on their way back to Boston.
The story was still not unraveled, and while he perplexed his fancies over the unraveling, the door opened, and a tall, thin man with a pointed beard stood upon the threshold. He was a man of fifty years; his shoulders were just learning how to stoop; and his face, fine and delicate, yet lacking nothing of strength, wore an aspect of melancholy, as though he lived much alone until he smiled.
Sometimes one feels that one is moving in a circle. One could swear to lights on the horizon, gesticulating figures on a bank. "Suddenly we came upon Turkish trenches. They were empty, an abandoned outpost. The column halted, made a circuit. I felt that we were involved in an inextricable coil, a knot that could not be unraveled till dawn.
Perhaps it was the French blood in Mollie blood that showed even more plainly in her mother, a wealthy widow that accounted for this. Or perhaps it was the mischievous twins Dodo and Paul whose antics so often annoyed their older sister, that caused Mollie to "flare up" at times. Amy Stonington was concerned in a mystery that she hoped would some day be unraveled.
All the principal people wore robes woven of foreign silk, which had been unraveled for working into native patterns. All had golden necklaces and bracelets, in many cases so heavy that the arms of the bearers were supported on boys' heads. The whole crowd, many thousands in number, shone with gold, silver, and bright colors.
"All this," he said frankly, "is a relief to me. But there's another and more important point." He paused a moment before he continued: "To my mind your name is cleared, but you must agree that the mystery isn't unraveled yet. Although I have no power to interfere, Muriel is my wife's sister and I think she owes my views some deference.
Ives restaurant; for when before had I watched any girl with such special, ecstatic, almost proprietary rapture? Yes, that was why, ever since, I had been cutting such crazy capers. From first to last they were the natural thing, the prerogative of a man in my state of mind or heart. Many threads of the affair still remained to be unraveled.
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