" "Then
let's go at once. The railroad--"
"Not that way. No one in that house suspects me now. We'll go back and
put on our masks again, and--hush. What's there?"
"Nothing."
"There is--a man's step."
And she, seeing the look on his face, covered her eyes in horror. When
she looked up a great form was looming through the dark, and then the
voice of Wilbur came, hard and cold.
"I've looked everywhere for you. Miss Brown, they are anxious about
you in the schoolhouse. Will you go back?"
"No--I--"
But Pierre commanded: "Go back."
So she turned, and he ordered again: "I think our friend has something
to say to me. You can find your way easily. Tomorrow--"
"Tomorrow, Pierre?"
"Yes."
"I shall be waiting."
With what a voice she said it! And then she was gone.
He turned quietly to big Dick Wilbur, on whose contorted face the
moonlight fell.
"Say it, Dick, and have it out in cursing me, if that'll help."
The big man stood with his hands gripped behind, fighting for
self-control.
"Pierre, I've cared for you more than I've cared for any other man.
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