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"Seen the evening editions yet?" he exclaimed. "No; what's in them?" asked the curio-dealer. "I was lunching at the Arlington, with the Honorable Bertie By the way, he took the hook," Nevill replied, in a calmer tone, "and when I came out I bought this on the street. But read for yourself." He opened the newspaper, folded it twice, and tossed it down on Stephen Foster's desk.
Bertie Richmond stared at her in silence for some moments. "Well!" he said at last. "You have got sharper insight than any woman I know." "Thanks!" said Molly, with an indifferent laugh. "But you are not so awfully great on that point yourself, are you, Bertie? I should say you are scarcely a competent judge." Mrs. Richmond protested on Bertie's behalf, but without effect.
Even if she told the story of the fifty-dollar bill and her version of it were believed, they might very naturally think that there was something else, and that Bertie would scarcely have based her charge of theft on so slight and easily to be explained a circumstance as that. What should she do?
Since Lucas's death Tawny Hudson had attached himself to Bertie, following him to and fro like a lost dog, somewhat to Dot's dismay; for, deeply though she pitied the great half-breed, there was something about him that frightened her. "I don't know what to do with him," Bertie said. "He's as gaunt as a wolf. He's hanging about somewhere outside now.
Then, as he still shook his head: "Trevor, if you don't bring him, I shall come all by myself and fetch him." "No, you mustn't do that," Mordaunt answered with decision. "Then will you bring him?" "I will do my best," he promised gravely. "Will you really? Oh, thank you, Trevor. I shall expect you then, Bertie. Good-bye!"
Bertie never reasoned in that way; he simply followed the instincts of his breeding without analyzing them; but these led him safely and surely right in all his dealings with his fellow-men, however open to censure his life might be in other matters.
She did not like the idea of going to a place like London, though she dared not confess her fears to the travelled Ellen or the metropolitan Bertie. She felt vaguely that "no good would come of it" she had lived thirty-eight years without setting foot in London, and it seemed like tempting Providence to go there now....
Then, too, Bertie will certainly have a good deal of knocking about if he spends a couple of years in South America, and the knowledge he will gain of Spanish will add to his value with any firm trading on that coast. As far as you are concerned, I think it would be a great advantage to have him with you. In a long expedition, such as you propose, it is a gain to have a companion with you.
The wrench to his shattered leg was excruciating, "But then," as he announced to himself, "no snivelling, James; you're not going to make a spooney of yourself." Presently he moved, and lay quietly watching the others they were bringing in. "Why!" he called, "that's Bertie Curtis, ain't it?" as a slight, beautiful-faced boy was carried past him, and raised to his place.
Pearl would still have her life ahead of her, and I would come to be but a memory, but as it is there's but one straight and honorable course and I will take it." Then he thought of the roses, and wrote a card and a note, and called Bertie at the Livery Stable to come to the office. When Bertie arrived, much out of breath, the doctor charged him to be quick in his errand of delivering them.
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