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This wife was the only point in his favour which had presented itself to Luke's mind, for the latter resented a certain tone of easy familiarity, which Agatha seemed to take as a matter of course. Luke was afraid of being questioned about Agatha, and he therefore kept Carr at a respectful distance.
He was the youngest son of one George Carr Shaw, who had been a civil servant and was afterwards a somewhat unsuccessful business man.
Chance for you, Tom," returned the other; and, presently, from out the sacred presence came another clerk with a request for "a draft on Sydney for three thousand, less premium", and bearing a cheque signed "Sarah Carr" for L200, which he "took" in notes, and so returned again. From the bank she was taken to Green's Shipping Office. "I want a cabin in the first ship for Sydney, please."
It was decided to proceed with the building of the hut, and in a few days it was finished and thatched with thick green leaves, that were almost as good as shingles. "There, now let it rain if it wants to," said Mr. Carr. "We'll be good and dry. The tent can be used as a storehouse for what the hut won't hold."
He's looking for you, Al. 'He knows where to find me, said Alan shortly. And then, 'Just what's worrying you, Johnnie? 'I've known Jim for seventeen or eighteen years, rejoined Carr. 'He's a cold, hard, calculating and absolutely crooked proposition. During that time I've never known him to go on a drunk more than two or three times. And every time there was trouble.
Ashe come in at the side gate and ring the office bell, that the visit had any special significance for her. Mrs. Ashe often did come to the office to consult Dr. Carr. Amy might not be quite well, Katy thought, or there might be a letter with something about Walter in it, or perhaps matters had gone wrong at the house, where paperers and painters were still at work.
Carr arrived hurriedly from Sacramento the next evening, he found the house deserted. His daughters were gone; there were indications that they had arrived, and, for some reason, suddenly departed. The vague fear that had haunted his guilty soul after receiving their letter, and during his breathless journey, now seemed to be realized.
"Donald Lachlan I've been trapping partners with him, y'know Donald was home a month or so since. Told me when he came back that the Carrs were gone. I wasn't surprised." "No?" Thompson could not forbear an inquiring inflection on the monosyllable. "No," Tommy continued a bit wistfully. "I was talking to Carr a few days after you and I had that that little argument of ours." He smiled.
"There is another nice little room leading out of his," he added, hesitating "but really I don't like to suggest " "Oh, that will do perfectly!" I broke in. "Carr is not the sort of fellow to care a straw how he is put up. He will be quite content anywhere." "Come and see it," he said, leading the way out-of-doors.
Because these things happened to me in person, I made bold to introduce the capture of a late moth into the experience of Edith Carr in the last chapter of "A Girl of the Limberlost." I am pointing out some of these occurrences as I come to them, in order that you may see how closely I keep to life and truth, even in books exploited as fiction.
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