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Blundering, presumptuous wretch that he was! If any trouble came to Mollie Farrell, he would feel as guilty as if he himself had deliberately brought it to pass!
She clasped her hands listlessly on her knee, and said nothing. 'Are you quite sure Sarratt has been in it? he asked her. 'Oh, yes, I'm sure. There was a dull conviction in her voice. She began to pluck at the grass beside her, while her dark contracted eyes swept the Lake in front of her seeing nothing. 'Good God! thought Farrell 'Are they all all the women suffering like this?
The man turned to a rack, sorting out a small square envelope from others pigeon-holed under "A." Could it be possible that Sophia Farrell had been advised of his coming? Amber's hand trembled slightly with eagerness and excitement as he took the missive. "An Eurasian boy left it for you half an hour ago," said the clerk.
So I told her something was wrong with the engine and by the time I had pretended to fix it, I had led the conversation away from Fletcher Farrell as a novelist to myself as a chauffeur. The next morning at the hotel, temptation was again waiting for me. This time it came in the form of a letter from my prospective father-in-law.
Farrell was now obliged to dismiss her maid-of-all-work, and attend to the household duties herself. This was a hardship, for she was not a strong woman; but she did not complain. Bernard, fortunately, had taken two years of the commercial course at St. Stanislaus' College, and was therefore in a measure fitted for practical affairs.
"There are just two white men living, Colonel Farrell, who can go where I am going to look for your daughter to-night. I'm one of them. The other is you know who." "One of us is mad," said Farrell with conviction. "I think you are." "Or else I know what I'm talking about. In either event you only hinder me now. Please go."
A half-hour more and they were before the court. Fairchild, the lawyer and the jail-worn Harry, his mustache fluttering in more directions than ever. "Not guilty, Your Honor," said Randolph P. Farrell. "May I ask the extent of the bond?" The judge adjusted his glasses and studied the information which the district attorney had laid before him.
All the more reason now that she should turn to the dear friendships that life still held, should live in and for them, and follow where they led, through the years before her. Farrell, Cicely, Hester they stood between her weakness oh how conscious, how scornfully conscious, she was of it! and sheer desolation.
Farrell, in her anxiety and preoccupation, had not realized that, with the steady inroads made upon it, a ton of coal could not possibly last so long. "That, of all people, Stingy Willis should be the one to come to our assistance!" exclaimed the widow. "And to think he is not Stingy Willis at all! That is the most wonderful part of it!" responded Bernard.
He entered the room confident and smiling, but drew up with a start of surprise at seeing the two girls. He was evidently disappointed at their presence, and vaguely uneasy; but after the first involuntary movement his features quickly resumed their mask-like calm. "You sent for me, sir. Is there anything I can do?" Mr Farrell raised his head and looked at him thoughtfully.
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