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Thurston's country place, and we got in, and he brought us here." "This is Bates Villa," said Mrs. Bates. "You undoubtedly got into our car by mistake." "I'm sorry this is not the right place," said Antoinette in a tone of frank regret. "I was so glad when I saw all you girls and thought you were to be our friends." "You will be very welcome guests until your guardian comes for you," said Mrs.
Very soon after Thurston's return home his grandfather gave him to understand the conditions upon which he intended to make him his heir. They were two in number, viz., first, that Thurston should never leave him again while he lived; and, secondly, that he should never marry without his consent.
But though he did not realize it, in his veins flowed the adventurous blood of his father, and to it the dim trails were calling. In four days he set his face eagerly toward the dun deserts and the sage-brush gray. At Chicago a man took the upper berth in Thurston's section, and settled into the seat with a deep sigh presumably of thankfulness.
"I seen de lady lying like dead, and a man jump up and run away, and when I went nigh, I seen her all welkering in her blood, an' dis yer lying by her," and the boy handed a small poignard to his master. It was Thurston's own weapon, that he had lost some months previous in the woods of Luckenough. It was a costly and curious specimen of French taste and ingenuity.
"The only thing I can see is to report it to the doctor." "Oh, I shouldn't do that; it's more a piece of personal spite than any disorder and breach of rule, like that reading-room affair. I think it's a thing which ought to be put down by the fellows themselves. Who was in Thurston's study last night?" "I don't know.
Thurston's nose was flushed with the success of the mission from which he had just returned. He had been one of a number whose aim it had been during the preceding week to bring light and happiness into the lives of the inhabitants of Putney. They had been obviously appreciated, as the collection for the week had amounted to between seventy and eighty pounds. A proper share of this fine result Mr.
She remembered that, when he first met her mother, her father's position much resembled Thurston's, and the girl wondered if he desired to remind her of it. "The cars are in sight. Perhaps I had better see whether the hotel people are ready for your guests," she remarked with indifference.
She was an Inside Saint, therefore she must have accepted this whole story of the Second Coming and the rest of it. Of course women would believe anything ... Nevertheless ... He scarcely listened to their chatter. He was forcing himself not to look at his sister, and yet Thurston's news seemed so extraordinary to him that his eye kept stealing round to her to see whether she were still the same.
"I don't believe there will be any day's work," Rutter answered. "You're in charge, man! You must put us to work," Tom insisted. "I don't know just what ought to be done," complained Rutter. "I shall have to wait for orders." "Orders?" repeated Tom, in almost breathless scorn. "From whom can you get orders?" "Howe is Thurston's assistant at the lower camp," Rutter rejoined.
Another moment and he would have been split like a mackerel, but a blessed bullet tumbled his assailant into the dusty road so near that the impetus sent the body rolling to Thurston's feet. That evening, while platting my hasty survey, I found time to frame an apology, which I think took the rude, primitive form of a confession that I had spoken like a malicious idiot.
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