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"That is good," said Carroll, echoing the other's enthusiasm. He really felt a leap of joy in his soul because of the other's good-fortune. He felt that in some way he himself needed to be congratulated for his good-fortune, that he had been instrumental in securing it. His face lit up. "I am delighted, Mr. Allbright," he repeated. "Yes, it is a very good thing for me," said Allbright, simply.
'How did you get dry so quick? 'I don't know, sir. I'm always that way, mostly. 'Oh, you are, are you. What's your name? I warn't going to tell my name. I didn't know what to say, so I just says 'Charles William Allbright, sir. Then they roared the whole crowd; and I was mighty glad I said that, because maybe laughing would get them in a better humor. When they got done laughing, Davy says
The hospital is apt to be a long siege, and if there isn't any need of it " "His house is right here," said the first policeman to the second, with a stage aside. "All right," said the second. A boy pulled Allbright by the sleeve. "Say, I'll go for the doc," he cried, eagerly. He was enjoying the situation keenly. "Well," replied Allbright, "be quick about it.
"He has paid me every dollar he owed me," replied Allbright, with emphasis, and his own face flushed. Then the man turned to Day. "Has he paid you?" he inquired. And Day, with no hesitation, lied. "Yes, sir, he has, every darned cent," he declared, "and I don't know what business it is of yours whether he has or not." "When is he coming back?" asked the man, of Allbright, not heeding Day.
The young man replied before Allbright opened his mouth. "He's gone on a vacation," he said. "Queer time of year for a vacation," snapped the man, who was long and lean and full of nervous vibrations. "He was overworked," said Harrison Day. "Guess he overworked cheating me out of two thousand odd dollars," said the man, and both the others turned and stared at him. Then Allbright spoke.
Then he went out of the room, with Allbright following, and gave him some directions. He asked for a glass two-thirds full of water and poured some dark drops into it. "The minute he gets conscious again give him a spoonful of this," he said, "and you had better sit beside him and watch him." Then he turned to Allbright's sister, who was trembling from head to foot with a nervous chill.
Carroll didn't have to be carried to a hospital." "I suppose he would have been if I had not happened to be right on the spot," said Allbright, reflectively, to his sister. "You think he'll be all right in the morning, don't you?" "Oh yes, the doctor said so!"
"Are the Allbright Woods very wild?" asked Grace, as the auto left the main road and began the trip along a less frequented highway, the day following the inception of the plan. "Wild enough, I fancy you'll find," said the Captain. "My friends think it an ideal outdoor place in many respects. I hope you will like it." "Don't worry, please, we shall," declared Margaret.
"Yes, sir," replied Allbright, rather evasively. He had curious misgivings lately about this very Gates & Ormsbee, who figured in considerable transactions on his books. "Well," continued Carroll, rather impatiently, looking at his watch, "you know they failed to meet their note this morning, and that has shortened me with ready money."
I suppose I've got to mind the doctor," she replied, and even smiled foolishly and blushed. The doctor turned to Allbright. "I think he will be all right in the morning," he said; "a bit light-headed, of course, but all right. However, don't let him go home before noon, on your life. I will look in in the morning before he goes." And then he turned to Allbright's sister.
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