"Good-morning, Miss Effie. This is an unexpected pleasure." "It's begun again," growled Harry, who wanted both of us to suffer all we could. Gholson led us through the camp. A large proportion of the men were sleeping when as yet it was hardly night. Arthur fidgeted, and looked nervously around him. It was an awkward situation, but, after all, he had brought it on himself. He did not like to move away. Besides,[Pg 12] having started the conversation, it was only common politeness to wait until the stranger offered a remark. And presently, the latter opened his mouth again. This time he actually spoke. The Doctor harked back in his mind to the beginning of their talk. "But you objected to[Pg 200] my house," he mused, "that was how the discussion arose. And now we've got somewhere up in the stars." 268 I had an interesting--and illuminating--time, but I'm glad I don't 125 At noon that day a cow-boy had ridden from the hills with a rumor that Victorio's people were about. But Kirby had kept it from his wife. It might not be true. And even if it were, the danger was really small. With the hands and the two Englishmen, the quadrangle of log cabins, well stocked with food and ammunition, could withstand any attack. It had been built and planned to that end. "It's right. It's all right. It's God's ways," said the mother. "All right. We'll play fair. But no politics," came back from the rock. "It's horrible," he had said. "But we must know where Marvor stays." "And don't you care about the farm?" Now, when she heard of his catastrophe, she wondered if he would come back. Did men come back?¡ªand if they did, was she the type of woman they came back to? Perhaps she was too quick, too antagonistic. She told herself miserably that a softer woman could have saved Reuben, and yet, paradoxically, a softer woman would not have wished to do so. HoME΢Åĸ£Àû´óÏ㽶110
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