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More than that, I asked the office boy to direct you here instead of to his office. Do you see that machine?" Sybil looked at it without a sign of recognition. "It is a microphone detective. It was the installing of that machine in the board room which you interrupted the other night." "Was it necessary that Mr. Brainard should put his arm around you for that?" inquired Mrs.
Having this instinct for physical fitness, he had not greatly minded being a coal-passer during the greater part of his stay at Sing Sing; better that than working in the knitting mills; so that now, though underfed and under weight, he was active and hard-muscled. Larry Brainard could not have told why, and just when, he had turned to devious ways.
The ten thousand dollars were raised by the sale of State six per cent. stocks, a transaction that at once reduced his annual income about six hundred dollars. The sum was transmitted to New York. "Have you reconsidered that matter?" inquired Markland, a few days after his return, on meeting with Mr. Brainard. "No, but I hope you have," was answered in a serious tone.
And since for once Gavegan was content merely to gloat over his triumph, there was stiff silence in the room until Miss Sherwood said in the cold voice of a judge after a jury has brought in a verdict of guilty: "Of course, if you think there is anything you may say for yourself, Mr. Brainard, you now have the chance to say it."
"I believe I can survive them," Brainard said dryly. "This is professional confidence " Kennon began. "Of course, of course," Brainard said impatiently. "Now let's get on with it." "This is the most amazing tale I've ever heard," Brainard said slowly. "Are you certain you are telling the truth?" Kennon grinned.
There fell a hush upon the little group. Mrs. Brainard put out her hand and touched Brown's shoulder caressingly. "No wonder you wouldn't exchange it, Don," she said, very gently. "Was the father at your dinner, Don?" Doctor Brainard asked, after a minute. "Yes, Doctor." "So you wore it to please him," commented Sue. "He wore it," said Helena Forrest, "as a man might wear the Victoria Cross."
An hour afterward, Doctor Brainard, sitting wide-awake and thoughtful before Brown's fire, was aware of the quiet entrance of the younger man. He looked up, and a radiant smile met him. "Still doing well, I see, Don." Brown nodded. He sank down into the chair opposite the doctor and ran his hand through his hair. In spite of the brightness of his face the gesture betrayed weariness.
He held the door to his own office open for Mrs. Brainard. Sybil Brainard shot a quick glance at Constance. "Well, young lady," she said haughtily, "do you realize what you are doing and with whom you are?" "It isn't necessary, Sybil, to bother about Miss Dunlap. The lights were out of order and I found Miss Dunlap standing on the table trying to fix them.
I have more interest in watching you while you go through my things." And giving Gavegan a look which made an unaccustomed flush run up that officer's thick neck and redden his square face, she led the way into Larry's study. "This is the room where Mr. Brainard works," she said. "Through that door is his bedroom. Everything here except his clothing is my property.
The greed for land and the cruelties of the early settlers, were too much for the poor Indian. From his different reservations where Eliot, Brainard, Mayhews, and other devoted friends tried to save him, he was driven back, back, with such destruction and loss at each move, that ultimately he was simply wiped out.
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