"Are you finished? Then hear me. First, in regard to this girl, she
doesn't want me and I don't want her, but make up your mind, I promise
you to do all I can to prevent her falling into the hands of a brute
like you. Then as to leaving this place, I shall go just when it suits
me, no sooner."
"All right," said Perkins, his voice low and trembling. "All right, mind
I warned you! Mind I warned you! But if you go foolin' with that girl,
I'll kill yeh, so help me God."
These words he uttered with the solemnity of an oath and turned towards
the porch. A dark figure flitted across the kitchen and disappeared into
the house. Cameron walked slowly towards the barn.
"He's mad. He's clean daffy, but none the less dangerous," he said to
himself. "What a rotten mess all this is!" he added in disgust. "By
Jove! The whole thing isn't worth while."
But as he thought of Mandy's frightened face and imploring eyes and the
brutal murderous face of the man who claimed her as his own, he said
between his teeth:
"No, I won't quit now. I'll see this thing through, whatever it costs,"
and with this resolve he set himself to the business of getting to
sleep; in which, after many attempts, he was at length successful.
CHAPTER V
HOW THEY SAVED THE DAY
There never was such a Dominion Day for weather since the first Dominion
Day was born.
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