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There is one head of the family who is certainly not going to do it, and that is Gussie. And you are going to America to stop him. 'Yes, but why me? 'Why you? You are too vexing, Bertie. Have you no sort of feeling for the family? You are too lazy to try to be a credit to yourself, but at least you can exert yourself to prevent Gussie's disgracing us.
But few men care to be made the plaything of a young girl's caprice, and there came a time when Gussie's smile lost its power to charm.
But what I am driving at is that is what this Angela was showing herself. "Silly young geezer," I said. She pinkened. "I'm not a silly young geezer." "You are a silly young geezer. And, what's more, you know it." "I don't know anything of the kind." "Here you are, wrecking Tuppy's life, wrecking Gussie's life, all for the sake of a cheap score." "Well, it's no business of yours."
The embarrassing silence that followed Hugh's entrance was broken at last by Aunt Jennie, who made some commonplace remark that allowed free speech to resume itself again. She saw at once the position of affairs; the reason of Hugh's coolness when in Gussie's society was no longer any secret.
Guy saw no hope for him in the flushed face, and Dexie hurried from the room as soon as she had grasped the letter from Gussie's hand. But Guy Traverse had no need to be so cast down, if he had only known it, for the letter said: "I begin to fear that you are gifted with second-sight, and it is with shame I confess that I have not kept 'honor bright' with you.
Dexie's heart beat too fast to allow of a reply, and Hugh added: "You can guess how glad I was to hear that you and Lancy were friends only, and from what Gussie tells me there is hope for me yet. Is it so, Dexie?" "You must not put any faith in Gussie's stories, Mr. McNeil," Dexie managed to reply.
He had formed a striking contrast to Gussie's fair beauty, but the memory of his handsome face was far from pleasant as Dexie thought of the words he had spoken to her in the hall. Yet Hugh succeeded after all, and the five minutes he asked for thrice repeated themselves before Dexie could escape from his presence.
No girl likes to feel that a chap has got to be thoroughly plastered before he can ask her to marry him. It wounds the pride. Nevertheless, I persevered. "But have you considered," I said, "that you may have got a wrong line on Gussie's performance this afternoon? Admitted that all the evidence points to a more sinister theory, what price him simply having got a touch of the sun?
The significance of Cousin Gussie's illness and absence and what those might mean to Martha Phipps were beginning to dawn upon him. He wanted to get away and think. The very last thing he wished to do was to discuss his own business affairs. "Yes," he admitted; "yes, you ah do. That is, Cousin Gussie ah Mr. Cabot does. But, really, I " "I won't keep you but a moment, Professor.
I was just going to close my eyes and try to forget till they put Gussie's name up when I discovered that I was sitting next to a deucedly pretty girl. No, let me be honest. When I went in I had seen that there was a deucedly pretty girl sitting in that particular seat, so I had taken the next one. What happened now was that I began, as it were, to drink her in.
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