Winston,"
she responded, her voice low and steady. "No one has taken the trouble
to explain. We realize, of course, it must be serious, but possibly
the strain would prove less if we understood clearly what must be met."
The engineer bowed, drawing toward him an empty cracker-box, and sat
down facing them both.
"I will relate the circumstances to you in all their unpleasantness,"
he began quietly. "Perhaps your woman wit may discover some loophole
which has escaped us." Clearly, yet rapidly, he reviewed the salient
points of the controversy between Farnham and the "Little Yankee," his
own brief connection with it, the discoveries made in the lower levels
of the "Independence," his desperate struggle with Burke, the swearing
out and serving of warrants, the sudden change in situation which had
placed them legally in the wrong, the accident to the sheriff, the curt
dismissal of his deputy, and the probable consequences. His voice grew
deep as he proceeded, marking the intense interest with which they
followed his recital.
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