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And every nerve on the alert you watch for the clearing-up mood of the Western King, that shall come with a shift of wind as likely as not to whip all the three masts out of your ship in the twinkling of an eye.
It had, though I had not noticed it. The flash which smashed the willow had been the accompaniment of what Lute would call the "clearing-up shower." The storm was really over. We stepped up on the portico of the big house and I rang the bell. The butler opened the door. His face, as he saw the pair of dripping, bedraggled outcasts before him, was worth looking at.
"Stir things towards a clearing-up," announced Sackville promptly. "Have the whole thing gone into thoroughly. There are matters that haven't been touched on, yet. You'll see, my boy!" "Glad to hear it," said Bryce. "But why should Mr. Folliot be so particular about clearing Ransford?" Sackville swung his stick, and pulled up his collar, and jerked his nose a trifle higher. "Oh, well," he said.
And silence once more settled down on Happy Valley not quite so happy as it had been. For, following the clearing-up of the mystery of the water supply, new and sinister events seemed pending for the boy ranchers. But, as yet, there were only straws, showing which way the evil wind was blowing. "Could it have been a chance shot?" asked Dick, raising himself a little to get a better look.
The dining room was dark and cool, all the dinner things being carried out, except the pickle dish and the sugar bowl; and the crumbs swept off from the table, and the green blinds pulled to. He could hear the rattle of the dish-washing and the clearing-up generally out in the kitchen, and he plunged in. "Where where's Mr.
"I've told him not only to catch him up, but to get in front of 'em," he said, settling down again in his seat. "This is a better car than theirs, and we shall be there first. Now, Miss Mallathorpe, don't you bother this is probably going to be the clearing-up point of everything. One feels certain, at any rate Pratt has reached the end of his tether!"
He had been eager to do good to Hannah when no desire of his own stood in the way; but a formed wish had arisen in his mind, and he loved himself better than Hannah. Christabel dreaded the clearing-up of the secret of the post-office order, lest he should be proved to love himself more than right and justice.
To-night, after supper, the girls flew through their share of clearing-up. It never weighed very heavily upon them; they usually began the process of piling and scraping dishes before they left the table, Rose whisking the tablecloth into its drawer as Norma bumped through the swinging door with the last dishes, and Kate halfway through the washing even then.
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