I can see perfectly that the thing
is a success. Don't try it again."
"My dear Griggs," said Hawkins, coldly, "this trial trip is for my own
personal satisfaction, not yours. To tell the truth, I had no idea that
you or any one else would be here to witness my triumph."
He went perhaps three or four hundred feet up the road; then he turned
Maud's nose homeward and clambered to her back.
As I waited behind the hedge, I grieved for the old mare. Hawkins
evidently intended urging her into something more rapid than the walk she
had used for so many years, and I feared that at her advanced age the
excitement might prove injurious.
But Maud broke into such a sedate canter when Hawkins had thumped her ribs
a few times with his heels, and her kindly old face seemed to wear such a
gentle expression as she approached, that I breathed easier.
"Now, Griggs!" cried Hawkins, coming abreast. "Watch--now!"
He thrust one hand behind, grasped the lever, and gave it a tug. The
little rods remained in the air.
A puzzled expression flitted over Hawkins' face, and as he cantered by he
appeared to tug a trifle harder.
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