human
Good--you're no piker. They said they had scared the filling out of you at the meeting this morning, and they've bragged they were going to beat you up this afternoon and kill you to-night. You look pretty husky--but watch out. They really are greatly excited.
gpt
Well, replied Grant grimly,
human
I'll be there to-night.
gpt
Nevertheless, returned Nathan, snapping off his words as though he was cutting them with steel scissors,
human
Anne and I agreed to-day, that I must come to Mrs. Williams's and take you to the meeting. They may get ugly after dark.
gpt
Well, Anne, Nate told me that you wish to send him over to the meeting to-night, as my body guard. I don't need a body guard, and you keep Nate at home. He smiled down on his cousin and for a moment all of the emotional storm in his face was melted by the gentleness of that smile.
human
Anne, he said--
gpt
Grant, I'd rather be the widow of a man who would stand by you and what you are doing, than to be the wife of a man who shrank from it. She lowered her voice,
human
And Grant, here's a curious thing: this second Mrs. Van Dorn called me up on the phone a little bit ago, and said she knew you and I were cousins and that you and Nate were such friends, but would I tell Nate to keep you away from any meeting to-night? She said she couldn't tell me, but she had just learned some perfectly awful things they were going to do, and she didn't want to see any trouble. Wasn't that queer?
gpt
Well, what did you say?
human
Oh, I said that while they were doing such perfectly awful things to you, your friends wouldn't be making lace doilies! And she rang off. What do you think of it?
gpt
Just throwing a scare into me--under orders,