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And then he found himself face to face with Hauck, and a step or two behind Hauck were the two white men he had talked to so hurriedly. One of them was the man David had brushed against in passing through the big room. There was a grin in his face now. There was a grin in Hauck's face, and a grin in the face of the third man, and to David's astonishment Hauck thrust out his hand. "Shake, Raine!
"There are the two lackeys, and Outram and Saunders, besides the other groom fellow, and Roger Raine, and his son; but bid Roger not come drunk again; thyself, young Dick of the Dale and his servant, and a file or two of the tenants, we shall be enough for any force they can make.
"There yuh go fight fight and I told yuh there ain't any fighting going on. Nothing more'n a fight to hang on and make a living. That means straight, hard work and mindin' your own business. If you want to help at that " "I do," said Raine quietly, getting to her feet. Her legacy of stubbornness set her lips firmly together. "That's exactly what I mean. Good night, dad."
He was letting himself down through the manhole in the stable loft when Swan's voice, lowered almost to a whisper, startled him. "What the hell!" Lone ejaculated under his breath. "I thought you were on another trail!" "That trail leads here, Lone. Did you find Raine yet?" "Not a sign of her. Swan, I don't know what to make of it. I did think them two were stalling.
"It sometimes makes a man's head think better when he has been hurt, if he can drink a little water or something." Brit swallowed and turned his face away from the tilted bottle. "I jumped but I didn't jump quick enough," he muttered thickly. "The chain pulled loose. Where's the horses, Raine?" "They're all right. Caroline's standing over there. Are you hurt much, dad?"
Think of HER in that, Raine with ME! That's the dream you smashed!" "And her father and the others " This time there was a ferocious undercurrent in Blake's guttural laugh, as though Philip had by accident reminded him of something that both amused and enraged him. "Don't you know how these Kogmollock heathen look on a father-in-law?" he asked.
And the face, too, was of such a man; a face coloured and toughened by the tannin of wind and blizzard and hot northern sun, with eyes cobwebbed about by a myriad of fine lines that spoke of years spent under the strain of those things. He was not a large man. He was shorter than David Raine. There was a slight droop to his shoulders.
Lorraine jumped out and ran to meet them, hoping and fearing that her hope was foolish. That car might easily be only Bob Warfield on some errand of no importance. Still, she hoped. "That you, Raine? Where's Brit? What's all this about Brit being hurt? A doctor from Shoshone " "A doctor? Oh, did a doctor come, then? Oh, help Swan carry dad in! I'm oh, I'm afraid he's awfully injured!"
Brit gave her a tolerant glance. "Where'd you see all that, Raine?" He moved to the table picked up his pipe and knocked out the ashes on the stove hearth. His movements were those of an aging man, yet Brit Hunter was not old, as age is reckoned. "Well in stories but it was reasonable and logical and possible, just the same. If you use your brains you can outwit them, and if you have any nerve "
This Gardener accustomed to drive me, every morning laded with hearbes to the next Village, and when he had sold his hearbes, hee would mount upon my backe and returne to the Garden, and while he digged the ground and watered the hearbes, and went about other businesse, I did nothing but repose my selfe with great ease, but when Winter approached with sharpe haile, raine and frosts, and I standing under a hedge side, was welnigh killed up with cold, and my master was so poore that he had no lodging for himselfe, much lesse had he any littor or place to cover me withall, for he himselfe alwayes lay under a little roofe shadowed with boughes.
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