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They could hear the beat of bullets against the log wall of the cabin. One crashed through the door, tearing away a splinter as wide as a man's arm, and as MacVeigh nodded to the path of the bullet he laughed. Pelliter had heard that laugh before. He knew what it meant. He knew what the death-whiteness of MacVeigh's face meant. It was not fear, but something more terrible than fear.
"I heard nothing unless it was the wind in the trees." She drew away from him. The dogs whined and slunk close to the box. Across the Barren came a low, wailing wind. "The storm is coming back," said MacVeigh. "It must have been the wind that I heard."
He folded the pages of paper, wrapped them in a clean sheet, and wrote Isobel Deans's name on the outside. Then he placed the packet with the letters on the shelf over the table. He knew that she would find it with them. What happened during the terrible week that followed that night no one but MacVeigh would ever know.
You remember two years ago a sailor ran away with the wife of a whaler's captain away up at Narwhale Inlet. Well " Again the two men stared silently at each other. MacVeigh turned slowly toward the child. She had fallen asleep, and he could see the dull shimmer of her golden curls as they lay scattered over Pelliter's pillow. "Poor little devil!" he exclaimed, softly.
MacVeigh of the British army rose defiantly in the North La Salle Street hall bedroom. The herculean captain, attired in a tattered bathrobe, underwear, socks and one slipper, patted the bottom of the iron with his finger and then carefully applied it to a trouser leg stretched on an ironing board in front of him.
You are the murderers. You killed him. You have killed me. And you will never be punished never never because you are the Law and because the Law can kill kill kill " She dropped back, moaning, and MacVeigh crouched at her side, his fingers buried in her hair, with no words to say. In a moment she breathed easier. He felt her tense body relax.
Her reddish-brown hair tumbled about her shoulders, rippling and glistening in the fire glow, and for a few moments she sat with it falling loosely about her, with her eyes upon MacVeigh. Then she gathered it between her fingers, and MacVeigh watched her while she divided it into shining strands and pleated it into a big braid. "Supper is ready," he said. "Will you eat it there?"
Isobel laughed gleefully when she saw the curl between his fingers. Before McTabb had turned it was in his pocket. "I won't see her again soon," MacVeigh said; and he tried to keep a thickness out of his voice. "That is, I I won't see her to to handle her. I'll come over now and then an' look at her from the edge of the woods.
She's as fresh and sweet," his voice caught. "Oh, hang Dalton," he said, "I hate the whole tribe of them " Kemp came back to say that Oscar Waterman would be down at once. He insisted that Miss MacVeigh should be brought up to Hamilton Hill. "He must talk with the doctor." "He is bringing a doctor of his own. One who came down for Mrs. Waterman." Randy picked up his hat. "I'm going home.
She had sent back his pendant without a word, and there was no telling how she was taking it. If the thing were ever renewed and his mind dwelt daringly on that possibility, explanations would be easy but he couldn't make explanation if she saw him first in a car with another woman. It was thus that Madge, arriving on the noon train, found Kemp waiting for her. Kemp was very fond of Miss MacVeigh.
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