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There's the chance that Laffie may not run. He'd be a drivelling idiot if he did, with his father's millions at stake. Don't forget we've no proof. It won't look even possible to outsiders. Suppose I hold off showing Tom those plans till we see if he can make it on the Zariba Dam? If he pulls that off, no engineer in the U. S. will doubt his claims to the bridge." "That means a delay," said Mr.
I believe he brought it in deliberately to tempt him." "Wine? He drank! How long ago? Where is he now? I must try to check him." "If only you could! But it's too late. He went off with Laffie." "Not too late! The craving has been checked once I've seen it done." "But this time it's not the craving." "How's that?" "It's because he was driven desperate. He took it deliberately intentionally."
"Hearts are trumps, Laffie not clubs," called Dolores, as Lord James passed him by with a vague nod. Before the earl had reached them Mrs. Gantry was rising. Genevieve rose to protest. "You're not going so soon, Aunt Amice? You'll stay for a cup of tea?" "Not to-day, my dear. Ah, earl! you're just in time to relieve Genevieve from the ennui of a solitary afternoon.
So now, say the word, and come and cuddle up." "Oh, Laffie! in here? We might disturb Mr. Blake." "Blake!" he muttered, and he looked angrily at the big inert form half prostrate on the table. "He's intoxicated, I tell you or if he's not, he ought to be. The insolence of him, hanging around Genevieve! I hope he is drunk! That would settle it all. We'd be rid of him then." "'We'?" queried Dolores.
But you mustn't ask for the details, mamma," reproved the girl. "It's best that you should not become aware of such things, my dear. Only, you know, 'boys will be boys, and we must not lose sight of the fact that poor dear Laffie will be worth twenty millions some day if his papa doesn't make a will. Besides, he dances divinely.
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