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"No bad news, I hope?" said Brockton suspiciously. "No, no not bad news," she replied hastily. "I thought you appeared startled." "No, not at all," she stammered. Brockton sat down and picked up the newspaper again. Carelessly he asked: "From Elfie?" "No just a friend." "Oh!" He sat down again, making himself comfortable in the armchair.
Folks said it was made in Brockton, but whether it was or not there's no way of knowin'. Anyhow, back she pranced to Wilton in that gown an' for a year or more, whenever there was a church fair, or a meetin' of the Eastern Star, or a funeral, you'd be certain of seein' Minnie Coffin there in her black satin.
"They left Harvard the year I entered. They HAD to leave. They were quite mad. All the Careys have been mad. The boys were queer even then, and awfully rich. Henry ran away with a girl from a shoe factory in Brockton and lives in Paris, and Philip was sent here." "Sent here?" repeated the girl. Unconsciously her voice also had sunk to a whisper.
Brockton carelessly flecked the ash from his cigar as he answered in the same tone: "Well, young man, I size up a fellow in pretty short order, and all things being equal, I think you'll do." Laura, radiant at this totally unexpected result of the encounter, looked from one man to the other in delighted amazement.
She rose, and, approaching the table, handed him the timetable, a diabolical labyrinth of incomprehensible figures and words specially compiled by railroad managers to puzzle and befog the traveling public. But Brockton, from long practice, seemed familiar with its mysteries. "Where is she coming from?" he demanded, as he quickly turned over the leaves. "The West," she answered promptly.
Languidly sinking into her seat, she said to her escort with a smile: "Don't they stare? You'd think they had never seen a woman before." Brockton laughed as he lit a fresh cigar. "How do you know they're staring at you? I'm not such a bad looker myself." Laura ran over the menu to see what there was to tempt her appetite. "Bring me some lobster," she said to the waiter.
The station equipment at Brockton consisted at first of three dynamos, one of which was so arranged as to supply both sides of the system during light loads by a breakdown switch connection. This arrangement interfered with correct meter registration, as the meters on one side of the system registered backward during the hours in which the combination was employed.
Laura never liked the negress, but well aware of the difficulty she might have in finding a servant, she accepted her voluntary offer to follow when she went with Brockton. The woman knew her ways, and in some respects was a good servant at least as faithful and honest as any she could expect to get, which was not, of course, saying a great deal.
Baron went down upon the lawn to meet the officers, and, after a brief parley, Major Brockton, the senior in command, began to dispose of his men for a little rest and refreshment, promising to join the family soon in the dining-room. Miss Lou, unasked, now aided in the preparations for the morning meal.
One man would help her, a man to whose generosity she could appeal with the certainty of instant response Willard Brockton. But she would die sooner. She would not confess defeat. The one being who really cared for her and to whom she could properly appeal was thousands of miles away, in complete ignorance of her plight.
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