Black Jack, Max Brand [snow like ashes .txt] 📗

>that of Kate, warm, soft, young, clasping his fingers feverishly and

happily. And on the other side was the firm, cool pressure of the hand of

Aunt Elizabeth.

 

His mind was in a haze. Vaguely he perceived the gleam of tears on the

face of Elizabeth. And he had heard her say: “All the time I didn’t know,

Terry. I thought I was ashamed of the blood in you. But this girl opened

my eyes. She told me the truth. The reason I took you in was because I

loved that wild, fierce, gentle, terrible father of yours. If you have

done a little of what he did, what does it matter? Nothing to me! Oh,

Terry, nothing in the world to me! Except that Kate brought me to my

senses in time—bless her—and now I have you back, dear boy!”

 

He remembered smiling faintly and happily at that. And he said before he

slept: “It’s a bit queer, isn’t it, even two wise women can’t show a man

that he’s a fool? It takes a bullet to turn the trick!”

 

But when he went to sleep, his head turned a little from Elizabeth toward

Kate.

 

And the women raised their heads and looked at one another with filmy

eyes. They both understood what that feeble gesture meant. It told much

of the fine heart of Elizabeth—that she was able to smile at the girl

and forgive her for having stolen again what she had restored.

 

It was the break-up of the Pollard gang, the sudden disaffection of their

newest and most brilliant member. Joe himself was financed by Elizabeth

Cornish and opened a small string of small-town hotels.

 

“Which is just another angle of the road business,” he often said,

“except that the law works with you and not agin you.”

 

But he never quite recovered from the restoration of the Lewison money on

which Elizabeth and Terry both insisted. Neither did Denver Pete. He left

them in disgust and was never heard of again in those parts. And he

always thereafter referred to Terry as “a promising kid gone to waste.”

 

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