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The doctor raised his eyebrows at this peculiar pleasantry, but managed to harrow his listener's heart by intimating that it would be a confoundedly strange thing if young Dunlop did not appreciate his advantages. To be slowly recovering from a severe illness is almost like being again a very little child.
No doubt, however, had it so happened, I should have deemed myself honorably bound to warn them of a listener's presence by flinging down a handful of unripe grapes, or by sending an unearthly groan out of my hiding-place, as if this were one of the trees of Dante's ghostly forest. But real life never arranges itself exactly like a romance. In the first place, they did not sit down at all.
I suggested that Bill might get in a little deep herself," went on James, watching his listener's face keenly, "but Bert seemed inclined to the opinion that any one as experienced as Bill was perfectly able to take care of herself anywhere.
"Phillip Lawson," said he, his voice calm and distinct, "I have asked God to give me strength to-night and I have not asked in vain. He has been good and merciful to me through it all and on this bed of affliction I have made my peace with Him." A tear shone in the listener's eye and fell upon the floor. "God has indeed been good to me. He has revealed Himself in a number of ways.
"You see," he said in his quaint, soft voice, "if they track me here they may hang me, and they would be wrong all wrong. I did not intend to kill her, but she would not hold still." At this he gave a blood-curdling laugh, and the horrible truth burst upon the listener's dazed senses. She was alone with a maniac.
The muscles of the listener's face twitched as the Sergeant was thus delivering his sentiments, though the former had now recovered a portion of that stoicism which formed so large a part of his character, and which he had probably imbibed from long association with the Indians.
Everybody talked politics, the crop failure, or the last fight at the seat of some private war; but nobody spoke of a Lewallen or a Stetson unless he knew his listener's heart, and said it in a whisper. For nobody knew when the powder would flash, or who had taken sides, or that a careless word might not array him with one or the other faction.
To-day I knew him afar and, Malluch " He caught the listener's arm again. "And, Malluch, he knows and takes with him now the secret I would give my life for: he could tell if she lives, and where she is, and her condition; if she no, THEY much sorrow has made the two as one if they are dead, he could tell where they died, and of what, and where their bones await my finding." "And will he not?"
Nothing shall offend them. What a new world you would enter, my girl, when you found that nothing could give you offense!" A strange wrestling was going on in his listener's breast and her breathing was unsteady. Seeing that she was not ready to speak, Thinkright proceeded: "You have heard of the Brotherhood of Man. It isn't a mere phrase when you think right.
Instantly his every faculty was alive. Through the brush he could see the dark, indistinct forms of three or four men. They were in the road just below him. "You shouldn't have let him out of your sight," one of the men was saying. "Hang it all, we can't let him give us the slip now." The listener's eyes, sharpened by anxiety, made out the figure of the woman.
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