American fiction -- 20th century; Gold mines and mining -- Fiction; Western stories
Now it was Mexicali Joe who was set wondering. For Standing, with a
sudden vigorous sweep of his arm, slammed the door in Joe's perplexed
face and came with swift eager strides to Lynette.
"It is I who have been of little faith and disloyal," she said softly.
"I was ungrateful enough to forget how you were big enough to take my
unproven word that it was not I who shot you, a thing I could never
prove! And yet I asked proof of you! I should have known all the time
that ... 'though it were ten thousand mile....'"
She was smiling now and yet her eyes were wet. She lifted them to his
that he might look down into them, through them into her heart.
"Let me say this ... first ..." she ran on hastily. "Babe Deveril saved
me the second time to-day from Taggart. And he told you where to find
me. I think that he has made amends."
"He wiped his slate clean," said Standing heartily. "Henceforth I am
no enemy of his. But it is not of Deveril now that we must talk. Girl,
can't you see...."
"Am I blind?" laughed Lynette happily.
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