Cassidy, Hopalong (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Western stories
This could not go on. Tomorrow he would start back to Montana, and he
soon arose to return to the SV, to spend his last night there. As he
went back to his horse another verse came to his mind, a verse of
finality, and one fitting the present situation. He laughed bitterly
and flung out his arms:
_And when like her, O Sákí, you shall pass_
_Among the Guests Star-scatter’d on the Grass,_
_And in your blissful errand reach the spot_
_Where I made One--turn down an empty Glass!_
Suddenly he stiffened, his hands leaping instinctively to his guns.
Then he let them fall to his sides and stared unbelievingly: "Miss
Saunders!" he exclaimed in amazement. "Why--what are you--?" and
ceased, tongue-tied.
"You are--going away?" she asked, her voice breaking, speaking so low he
barely could hear her words.
"Tomorrow."
She hung her head for a moment and then turned a wistful, anxious face
up to him. "I--I heard what you have been saying. O Tex--I--I am going
with you!"
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