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fine and keen, in the sunshine, across the snow. I blew
my nose and prepared to depart.
"And she doesn't know anything?" he continued, jerking his head up
the hill in the direction of Tible.
"She knows nothing but what I've said--that is, if she really burnt the
letter."
"I believe she burnt it," he said, "for spite. She's a little devil, she is.
But I shall have it out with her." His jaw was stubborn and sullen. Then
suddenly he turned to me with a new note.
"Why?" he said. "Why didn't you wring that b---- peacock's neck--that
b----Joey?"
"Why?" I said. "What for?"
"I hate the brute," he said. "I let fly at him the night I got back----"
I laughed. He stood and mused.
"Poor little Elise," he murmured.

"Was she small--petite?" I asked. He jerked up his head.
"No," he said. "Rather tall."
"Taller than your wife, I suppose."
Again he looked into my eyes. And then once more he went into a loud
burst of laughter that made the still, snow-deserted valley clap again.
"God, it's a knockout!" he said, thoroughly amused. Then he stood at
ease, one foot out, his hands in his breeches pocket, in front of him, his
head thrown back, a handsome figure of a man.
"But I'll do that blasted Joey in----" he mused, I ran down the hill,
shouting also with laughter.

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