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Hollowell returned the salute. "Who's that?" asked Mrs. Hollowell. "That's Mrs. Henderson." "And the other one?" "I don't know her. She knows how to handle the ribbons, though." "I seen her at the Casino the other night, before you come, with that tandem-driving count. I don't believe he's any more count than you are." "Oh, he's all right. He's one of the Spanish legation.
Henderson, he stepped into control of Mr. Henderson's property and obtained the mission to Rome; but later on he had been accepted as one of the powers in the financial world. There were a few of the old stagers who never trusted him. Uncle Jerry Hollowell, for instance, used to say, "Mavick is smart, smart as lightnin'; I guess he'll make ducks and drakes of the Henderson property."
Hollowell and the children doted on the sea, he said. "Wouldn't the torpedo station make up for it?" Henderson asked. "Hardly. But it shows the change of a hundred years. Only, isn't it odd, this personal dropping back into an old situation? I wonder what she was like?" "The accounts say she was the belle of Newport. I suppose Newport has a belle once in a hundred years. The time has come round.
I reckon you don't find Jerry Hollowell trying to pull a cat by its tail," he added, dropping into his native manner. "Well, I must go and hunt up the old man. Glad to have made your acquaintance, Mrs. Henderson." And then, with a sly look, "If I knew you better, ma'am, I should take the liberty of congratulating you that Henderson has come round so handsomely."
What Henderson had to show Hollowell in his office had been of a nature greatly to interest that able financier.
The continued friendly alliance of Rodney Henderson and Jerry Hollowell was a marvel to the public, which expected to read any morning that the one had sold out the other, or unloaded in a sly deal. The Stock Exchange couldn't understand it; it was so against all experience that it was considered something outside of human nature. But the explanation was simple enough.
"That's as clever," Margaret retorted, "as the remark of an under-secretary at a cabinet reception the other night, that it is one thing to entertain and another to be entertaining. I won't have you slander Washington. I should like to spend all my winters here." "Dear me!" said Morgan, "I've been praising Washington. I should like to live here also, if I had the millions of Jerry Hollowell.
One reason why Hollowell sought his cooperation was a belief in this luck, and besides Henderson was, he knew, more presentable, and had social access in quarters where influence was desirable, although Hollowell was discovering that with most men delicacy in presenting anything that is for their interest is thrown away.
This is just the place for counts. I shouldn't wonder, Maria, if you'd like to be a countess. We can afford it the Countess Jeremiah, eh?" and Uncle Jerry's eyes twinkled. "Don't be a goose, Mr. Hollowell," bringing her fat hands round in front of her, so that she could see the sparkle of the diamond rings on them.
If it came, did it give any doubts and raise any of the old questions that used to be discussed at Brandon? Wasn't it the use that people made of money, after all, that was the real test? She did not like Hollowell, but on acquaintance he was not the monster that he had appeared to her in the newspapers.
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