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But, Jim, you can see yourself that if you don't tell what you know, everybody'll think that you shot and meant to hurt Lamoury, and then it might go pretty hard with you. Now come, tell me what happened." "You'd better tell, Jimmie," said Mrs. Calkins, straightening up from her wash-tub. "You won't find any better friends than Mr. Farnsworth and Miss Ware."
Farnsworth," said Winnie, appearing suddenly. "So I expect Miss Thorpe took baby in that." "Yes, probably," said Patty, despairingly. "Oh, Elise, this suspense is driving me crazy! If I knew that Zaly had her, and if I knew nothing had happened, I'd feel so relieved. But suppose she did break Fleurette's little arm or leg " "Or back!" put in Elise; "you must not let her pitch the baby around!
Thank you so much," and Patty ignored Farnsworth's remark entirely, and beamed pleasantly on Kit. Farnsworth looked at her curiously for a moment, and then walked away. He sat down by Daisy Dow, and said abruptly: "What's the matter with Patty, that she doesn't like me any more?" "Nonsense, Bill; she does like you." "No, she doesn't. She's cool as a cucumber.
Apparently there was nothing wrong, but the golden head cuddled down on Patty's shoulder and the baby slept on. "She's tired," vouchsafed Azalea, "but she's all right." "Where have you been?" asked Farnsworth sternly, as he came out of the front door. "Just for a walk," said Azalea, trying to speak pertly, but quailing before the accusing blue eyes fixed upon her.
This she received with more laughter; Montani amused her immensely, she said. She wasn't in the least afraid of him. Returning to the matter of the luncheon, she suggested the Tyringham. "You know, I want very much to see Mr. Bashford's old home and the place all our veteran retainers came from. At one? yes. Good night!" ... Alice and Mrs. Farnsworth reached the Tyringham on time to the minute.
Farnsworth, with his four labs in the house and his very tricky mind, never failed to provide my best night of the week. When he returned, after a moment, he had with him a small box, about three inches square.
Again the vice-president failed to comment further on the burglary. "What I am most afraid of, now, is that our young man may be, as you say, Kittredge, a trifle over-zealous," he said musingly. "We have discovered that he is something of a fanatic." "He's more than that," Kittredge cut in quickly. "One of the men I've had following him Farnsworth is as good as any Pinkerton that ever walked.
Then her mood suddenly changed from smiling lightness to almost fierce gravity, and she added: "Adrienne Bourcier, if Captain Farnsworth ever offers to treat me as he did you, mark my words, I'll kill him kill him, indeed I will! You ought to see me!" "But he won't dare touch you," said Adrienne, looking at her friend with round, admiring eyes.
It would be utterly useless to call Janet, for she was a nervous, timid girl, and would probably run away at sight of this strange man. The nursery, too, was on the other side of the house, and she couldn't make Janet hear if she tried. The Gale house also was on the other side of the Farnsworth house, and so, indeed, if Azalea chose to call for help, it would do no good.
Montani spoke of the porcelains. "Oh, to be sure! They don't show to best advantage in electric light, do they? But I can have a few of the prize pieces taken into the dining-room," said Alice. Mrs. Farnsworth had excused herself to finish a letter, and from my chair I could see her head bent over the big desk in the library.
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