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He had gone afoot for a good many years, and kept his clear skin and quick eye on that homely regimen but I had to remind myself that, after all, we were both older; and also that the Halidons had champagne every evening. "How do you like these cigars?
At the close of the second conference we fixed a date for a third, when Ned's business adviser was to be called in; but before the day came, I learned casually that the Halidons had gone south. Some weeks later Ned wrote me from Florida, apologizing for his remissness. They had rushed off suddenly his wife had a cough, he explained.
After all, my dear fellow, charity begins at home!" THE Halidons floated off to Europe for the summer. In due course their return was announced in the social chronicle, and walking up Fifth Avenue one afternoon I saw the back of the Brereton house sheathed in scaffolding, and realized that they were adding a wing. I did not look up Halidon, nor did I hear from him till the middle of the winter.
The following year the Halidons reappeared in New York, and I heard with surprise that they had taken the Brereton house for the winter. "Well, why not?" I argued with myself. "After all, the money is hers: as far as I know the will didn't even hint at a restriction. "Yes," cried the devil's advocate "but Ned?" My first impression of Halidon was that he had thickened thickened all through.
Not long after their arrival, I dined alone with the Halidons, and lingered on to smoke with Ned while his wife went alone to the opera. He seemed dull and out of sorts, and complained of a twinge of gout. "Fact is, I don't get enough exercise I must look about for a horse."
I heard of the Halidons as established first at Biarritz, then in Rome. The second summer Ned wrote me a line from St. Moritz.
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