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Hodder, they're great," he said. "Mr. Parr and our host are coming down handsomely, eh? When we get the new settlement house we'll have a plant as up-to-date as any church in the country. When do you break ground?" "Not until autumn, I believe," Hodder replied. "There are a good many details to decide upon yet." "Well, I congratulate you." Mr. Plimpton was forever congratulating.
The rector followed him up the stairs, to the room on the second floor, half office, half study, where the capitalist transacted his business when at home. Eldon Parr was huddled over his desk reading a typewritten document; but he rose, and held out his hand, which Hodder took. "How are you, Mr. Hodder?
And I meant, when I gave my wife a house, to have it the best in the city. I spared nothing on it, as you see, neither care nor money. I had the best architect I could find, and used the best material. And what good is it to me? Only a reminder of what might have been. But I've got a boy, Hodder, I don't know whether I've ever spoken of him to you Preston. He's gone away, too.
I fear that very few of the five millions which Salmo Salar says are deposited in the Hodder will be left to grow into Salmon. In addition to these, ducks, both wild and tame, eat them greedily. When Ramsbottom was in Galway he saw that the tame ducks frequented the spawning ford, and the superintendent bought one, and found its crop quite full of Salmon roe.
Hodder, they're great," he said. "Mr. Parr and our host are coming down handsomely, eh? When we get the new settlement house we'll have a plant as up-to-date as any church in the country. When do you break ground?" "Not until autumn, I believe," Hodder replied. "There are a good many details to decide upon yet." "Well, I congratulate you." Mr. Plimpton was forever congratulating.
Others stopped him; Everett Constable, for one, and the austere Mrs. Atterbury. Hodder would have avoided the ever familiar figure of her son, Gordon, in the invariable black cutaway and checked trousers, but he was standing beside Mr. Parr. "Ahem! Why, Mr. Hodder," he exclaimed, squinting off his glasses, "that was a magnificent effort. I was saying to Mr.
"I do not know what my testimony may be worth to you, my friend, but I give it freely. I sometimes think I have been peculiarly fortunate. But I have lived a great many years, and the older I get and the more I see of human nature the firmer has grown my conviction of its essential nobility and goodness." Hodder marvelled, and was silent. "You will come here, often, every day if you can.
She was, paradoxically, his kind of a person such was the form the puzzle took. And so ably had she presented her difficulties that, at one point of the discussion, it had ironically occurred to him to refer her to Gordon Atterbury. Mr. Atterbury's faith was like an egg, and he took precious care not to have it broken or chipped. Hodder found himself smiling.
And suddenly, overcome less by the physical power than by the aspect of the clergyman, an expression of bewilderment came into his eyes, and he was quiet. Hodder dropped his arms. "I do not intend to go until I hear what you have to say. It would be useless, at any rate, since your child's life is at stake. Tell me how Mr. Parr has ruined you."
Atterbury," he added, "so long as I am rector of this church, I am going to do my best to carry out the spirit of Christ's teaching to make Christians. And there shall be no more compromise, so far as I can help it." Gordon Atterbury had grown very pale. He, too, got to his feet. "I I cannot trust myself to discuss this matter with you any further, Mr. Hodder.
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