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The chest was open. With a low whistle of delight Kenny peered inside and thought of the ferryman in her quaint brocade. The chest was full to the brim of old-time gowns, glints of faded satin and yellowed lace, buckled slippers and old brocade. "Mr. O'Neill!" Kenny wheeled, his face scarlet with guilt and confusion. Joan was beside him, her startled eyes dark with reproach.
Terry O'Gara, brilliant in white flannels, he had been playing tennis with his mother's distant young cousin, Eileen Creagh seemed to draw the afternoon sun on to his spotlessness. Patsy Kenny, a little dazed with fatigue, blinked at his whiteness against the green grass. A mare came trotting up to them with her foal.
The problem now is entirely one of elimination. Have you anything to do, Garry?" "I have," said Garry distinctly. Kenny looked hurt. "I'm sorry," he said. "Because you're a jewel at eliminatin'. I mind me of the sketching trip we took together. You did all of the packing then in a marvelous way." Hopelessly uncertain what he ought to do, Garry lingered.
You came up to my studio, old man, and unloaded some facts. Let me unload one right now. I'm with Brian. I think he's a brick and a jewel for sense. And you can go to thunder!" And Kenny, with a gasping gurgle in his receiver ear, smiled sweetly into the telephone and hung up with Whitaker roaring his name.
Twice during the morning hours, while she sat in the clean well-ordered room, with its bright fire and its sudden transformation to a sick-room, she was called to the door. Once it was to interview Patsy Kenny. He had brought word that Susan had spoken to him from the window of Waterfall Cottage and had said that Miss Stella was no worse.
It either spelled retreat in a harrowing dawn with the marshal and Silas at his heels or a temporary sojourn in a village jail. And Kenny detested any form of humiliation or discomfort. "Silas," he said wearily, "this is a rotten corncrib. It's sprained and spavined and Lord knows what.
Here are three pages of checks when you were evidently hitting the high spots, that you've failed to subtract. Three on a page. That makes your balance overdrawn." Kenny struck an attitude of acute despair. "God of my fathers!" he groaned, changing color. "It can't be. Garry, it simply can not be!" "It can and is," said Garry pushing away the book.
Inexplicably the tale of the fairy mill and the rascal who stole the widow's bag of meal linked itself with the mishap of the night before. Then too Adam had fallen forward in his chair unconscious. Nellie stumbled and jolted Kenny into sanity. He put his thoughts aside in horror.
Kenny struck his head fiercely with his hand, raked his hair in the old familiar gesture and roamed turbulently around the room with the will in his hand. He was conscious of that dangerous alertness in his brain that with him always presaged some unusual clarity of vision, a startling speed with the adding of two and two. Four came now with bewildering conviction.
He seemed to like it. For Kenny, generous to a fault and prodigal with money, the word embodied all things hideous. There were times when Kenny abandoned the hopeless battle and came at Adam's plea, reserved and sullen. Then with a solicitous air of virtue the old man urged him to renew it. "Kenny," he demanded more than once, "have you got your practicing done? You lack application.
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