I mean simply
that you may go to--Mexico!"
"And--my business--"
"--Can be done just as well, perhaps better, without you. Recollect,
if you please, my colonel, that when you were absent with Harrison
in the West your great business was done here without you! And done
better for that very reason! No one even suspected your agency in
that matter. The person most benefited by the death of Eugene Le
Noir was far enough from the scene of his murder."
"Hush! Perdition seize you! Why do you speak of things so long
past?" exclaimed Le Noir, growing white to his very lips.
"To jog your worship's memory and suggest that your honor is the
last man who ought to complain of this delay, since it will be very
well for you to be in a distant land serving your country at the
time that your brother's heiress, whose property you illegally hold,
is got out of your way."
"There is something in that," mused Le Noir.
"There is all in that!"
"You have a good brain, Donald."
"What did I tell you? I ought to have been in the cabinet--and mean
to be, too! But, colonel, as I mean to conclude my part of the
engagement, I should like, for fear of accidents, that you conclude
yours--and settle with me before you go."
"What do you mean?"
"That you should fork over to me the remaining five thousand."
"I'll see you at the demon first," passionately exclaimed Le Noir.
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