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"Put your arm on my shoulder so," said Gethryn, and the two men raised her gently. Once in the cab, she sank back, looking limp and white. Gethryn turned sharply to the other man. "Shall I go?" "Rather," replied the little stranger, pleasantly. Opening his coat in haste, he produced a square of pasteboard. "My card," he said, offering one to Gethryn, who bowed and fumbled in his pockets.
Now, when he would have preferred to have avoided his species, men seemed to spring up from nowhere, and every man of them had a remark to make or a question to ask about the punctured tyre. Reserve is not the leading characteristic of the average yokel. Gethryn, however, refused to be drawn into conversation on the subject. At last one, more determined than the rest, brought him to bay.
A depraved and mongrel pointer, who had tugged at his chain in a wild endeavor to point the whole heterogeneous mass of feathered creatures from sparrow to swan, lost his head and howled dismally until dragged off by the lean-legged student who was attached to the other end of the chain. Gethryn, sprawling on a bench in the sunshine, turned up his nose. Braith grunted scornfully.
Rex soon struck a good trout and Ruth another, but the first one remained the largest, and finally Gethryn called to the colonel, "If you don't mind, we're going on." "All right! take care of Daisy. We will meet and lunch at the first bridge."
"Why should I not refresh my drooping spirits by adoring Lisette Cos " "Oh, come, you said that before," said Gethryn. "You're getting to be a bore, Clifford." "You at least can no longer reproach me," said the other, with a quick look that increased Gethryn's embarrassment. "Let him talk his talk of bewitching grisettes, and gay students," said Braith, more angry than Rex had ever seen him.
He heard someone open the window, and straining his eyes, could just discern the dim outline of a head and shoulders, unmistakably those of a girl. She had perched herself on the windowsill. Presently she began to hum the air, then to sing it softly. Gethryn waited until the words came again: Oui, c'est un reve and then struck in with a very sweet baritone: Oui, c'est un reve
"Do you know what a franc is?" he asked. The gamin eyed him doggedly. "But I saw him," he said. "Saw what?" said Gethryn, gently. "The bossu," repeated the wretched infant vacantly. "See here," said Gethryn, "listen to me. What would you do with twenty francs?" "Eat, all day long, forever!" Rex slipped two twenty-franc pieces into the filthy little fist. "Eat," he murmured, and turned away. Seven
Anyhow, you probably won't steer any worse than I row, so let's go and get a boat out, and I'll try and think of a few more words of wisdom for your benefit. At the nets Norris had finished his innings, and Pringle was batting in his stead. Gethryn had given up his ball to Baynes, who bowled slow leg-breaks, and was the most probable of the probables above-mentioned.
It seems to me the sooner I can get into the pine air and the sea breezes at Arcachon, the better chance I have of being fit to push on to Florence, via the Riviera, before the summer heat." "And then?" "I don't know." "You will come back?" "When I am cured." There was a long silence. At last Gethryn put a thin hand on Braith's shoulder and looked him lovingly in the face.
Farnie came out, and Gethryn proceeded to inform him that, all things considered, and proud as he was of the relationship, it was not absolutely essential that he should tell everybody that he was his uncle. In fact, it would be rather better on the whole if he did not. Did he follow? Farnie begged to observe that he did follow, but that, to his sorrow, the warning came too late.
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