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Hibbs
's
arms
flew
up
.
He
was
not
without
pugilistic
training
,
and
he
struck
back
vigorously
,
striking
Callum
once
in
the
chest
and
once
in
the
neck
.
In
an
instant
the
two
rooms
of
this
suite
were
in
an
uproar
.
Tables
and
chairs
were
overturned
by
the
energy
of
men
attempting
to
get
to
the
scene
of
action
.
The
two
combatants
were
quickly
separated
;
sides
were
taken
by
the
friends
of
each
,
excited
explanations
attempted
and
defied
.
Callum
was
examining
the
knuckles
of
his
left
hand
,
which
were
cut
from
the
blow
he
had
delivered
.
He
maintained
a
gentlemanly
calm
.
Hibbs
,
very
much
flustered
and
excited
,
insisted
that
he
had
been
most
unreasonably
used
.
The
idea
of
attacking
him
here
.
And
,
anyhow
,
as
he
maintained
now
,
Pethick
had
been
both
eavesdropping
and
lying
about
him
.
Incidentally
,
the
latter
was
protesting
to
others
that
he
had
done
the
only
thing
which
an
honorable
friend
could
do
.
It
was
a
nine
days
'
wonder
in
the
club
,
and
was
only
kept
out
of
the
newspapers
by
the
most
strenuous
efforts
on
the
part
of
the
friends
of
both
parties
.
Callum
was
so
outraged
on
discovering
that
there
was
some
foundation
for
the
rumor
at
the
club
in
a
general
rumor
which
prevailed
that
he
tendered
his
resignation
,
and
never
went
there
again
.
"
I
wish
to
heaven
you
had
n't
struck
that
fellow
,
"
counseled
Owen
,
when
the
incident
was
related
to
him
.
"
It
will
only
make
more
talk
.
She
ought
to
leave
this
place
;
but
she
wo
n't
.
She
's
struck
on
that
fellow
yet
,
and
we
ca
n't
tell
Norah
and
mother
.
We
will
never
hear
the
last
of
this
,
you
and
I
--
believe
me
.
"
"
Damn
it
,
she
ought
to
be
made
to
go
,
"
exclaimed
Callum
.
"
Well
,
she
wo
n't
,
"
replied
Owen
.
"
Father
has
tried
making
her
,
and
she
wo
n't
go
.
Just
let
things
stand
.
He
's
in
the
penitentiary
now
,
and
that
's
probably
the
end
of
him
.
The
public
seem
to
think
that
father
put
him
there
,
and
that
's
something
.
Maybe
we
can
persuade
her
to
go
after
a
while
.
I
wish
to
God
we
had
never
had
sight
of
that
fellow
.
If
ever
he
comes
out
,
I
've
a
good
notion
to
kill
him
.
"
"
Oh
,
I
would
n't
do
anything
like
that
,
"
replied
Callum
.
"
It
's
useless
.
It
would
only
stir
things
up
afresh
.
He
's
done
for
,
anyhow
.
"
They
planned
to
urge
Norah
to
marry
as
soon
as
possible
.
And
as
for
their
feelings
toward
Aileen
,
it
was
a
very
chilly
atmosphere
which
Mrs.
Butler
contemplated
from
now
on
,
much
to
her
confusion
,
grief
,
and
astonishment
.
In
this
divided
world
it
was
that
Butler
eventually
found
himself
,
all
at
sea
as
to
what
to
think
or
what
to
do
.
He
had
brooded
so
long
now
,
for
months
,
and
as
yet
had
found
no
solution
.
And
finally
,
in
a
form
of
religious
despair
,
sitting
at
his
desk
,
in
his
business
chair
,
he
had
collapsed
--
a
weary
and
disconsolate
man
of
seventy
.
A
lesion
of
the
left
ventricle
was
the
immediate
physical
cause
,
although
brooding
over
Aileen
was
in
part
the
mental
one
.
His
death
could
not
have
been
laid
to
his
grief
over
Aileen
exactly
,
for
he
was
a
very
large
man
--
apoplectic
and
with
sclerotic
veins
and
arteries
.
For
a
great
many
years
now
he
had
taken
very
little
exercise
,
and
his
digestion
had
been
considerably
impaired
thereby
.
He
was
past
seventy
,
and
his
time
had
been
reached
.
They
found
him
there
the
next
morning
,
his
hands
folded
in
his
lap
,
his
head
on
his
bosom
,
quite
cold
.
He
was
buried
with
honors
out
of
St.
Timothy
's
Church
,
the
funeral
attended
by
a
large
body
of
politicians
and
city
officials
,
who
discussed
secretly
among
themselves
whether
his
grief
over
his
daughter
had
anything
to
do
with
his
end
.
All
his
good
deeds
were
remembered
,
of
course
,
and
Mollenhauer
and
Simpson
sent
great
floral
emblems
in
remembrance
.
They
were
very
sorry
that
he
was
gone
,
for
they
had
been
a
cordial
three
.
But
gone
he
was
,
and
that
ended
their
interest
in
the
matter
.
He
left
all
of
his
property
to
his
wife
in
one
of
the
shortest
wills
ever
recorded
locally
.
