He's a
dude. Some call him The Duke, but mostly he's known as Giggles."
"Fools weary me," grumbled the other.
"Well, as I said, you mustn't begin dealing with him on the basis of his
looks. Looks don't often tell the truth. For instance, you're known as a
Christian and a Methodist!" He looked the old man slowly up and down, and
in anyone else it would have seemed gross insolence, but the urbane smile
at his lips belied the malice of his words. "Well, you know you don't
look like a Methodist. You look like,"--innocence showed in his eye;
there was no ulterior purpose in his face, "you look like one of the bad
McMahon lot of claim-jumpers over there in the foothills. I suppose that
seems so, only because ranchman aren't generally pious. Well, in the same
way, Giggles doesn't really look like a ranchman; but he's every bit as
good a ranchman as you are a Christian and a Methodist!"
The Young Doctor looked the old man in the face with such a semblance of
honesty that he succeeded in disarming a dangerous suspicion of mockery
--dangerous, if he was to continue family physician at Tralee. "Ah," he
suddenly remarked, "there comes Orlando now!" He pointed to a spot about
half a mile away, where a horseman could be seen cantering slowly towards
Tralee.
A moment afterwards, from his buggy, the Young Doctor said: "Mrs.
Mazarine must be left alone until I see her again.
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