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"Indeed, why should you go? Why don't you stay and find out why I wanted to run to the Padre to beg him to find some way to help me, since I can't fall like a plum into Mr. Inglesby's hand when Mr. Hunter shakes the Eustis family tree!" His breath came whistlingly between his teeth. "Parson! You hear?" he slapped his leg with his open palm. "Oh, I knew it, I knew it!"
"Do you know what we've stumbled upon? Dynamite! Man, anybody holding that bunch of mail could blow this state wide open! So much for a hunch, you see!" "You mean " "I mean I've got the cream off Inglesby's most private deals, that's what I mean! I mean I could send him and plenty of his pals to the pen.
Inglesby has agreed to double my present salary. That in itself is no light inducement but I get more. I get Mr. Inglesby's personal backing, which means an assured future to me; as it will mean to you and your father, if you have got the sense you were born with. This is business. Kindly omit melodrama crude, and not at all your style, really," he finished, critically.
For alone of my household I admired immensely Mr. Inglesby's secretary. He was the only man I have ever known to whom the term 'beautiful' might be justly applied, and at the word's proper worth.
Eustis said she knew Mr. Inglesby's noble heart, my dear, whether others did or not. Compelled to apparently jilt Laurence, Mary Virginia sank deeper and deeper into the slough of despond. A terror of Inglesby's power, as of something supernatural, was growing upon her, a terror almost childish in its intensity.
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