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I saw that his effusive friendliness confirmed Tom Langdon's fear that I had escaped from his brother's toils. He stared sullenly at the carpet until he caught me looking at him with twinkling eyes. He made a valiant effort to return my smile and succeeded in twisting his face into a knot that seemed to hurt him as much as it amused me.
"Then how did you how did people know there was something wrong?" "Oh, a woman, of course she blabbed. I think she's Dick Langdon's sister, and " "Hush-hh!" and Allis laid her hand on the boy's arm, indicating with her eyes the woman in the seat behind. "I'd better go and tell father " "You needn't bother; he knows. It's a question of honor.
Without being in the least suspicious of Langdon, and simply acting on the general principle that surprise and treachery are part of the code of high finance, I had prepared to guard, first, against being taken in the rear by a secret change of plan on Langdon's part, and second, against being involved and overwhelmed by a sudden secret attack on him from some associate of his who might think he had laid himself open to successful raiding.
Is there any place near here that it can make a landing?" "Darling child " Mrs. Langdon's gentle voice was gentler than ever "darling child, it's this wretched heat. There isn't any airplane, dear it's just the wind rising in the beeches." "The wind?" Janet laughed aloud they really were too absurd. "Why, Mrs. Langdon, you can hear the engines, if you'll only listen!
Crane had already decided to race The Dutchman this year in his own name and not in Langdon's. If The Dutchman came up to expectation they could give him a slow preparation up to Derby time; they could find out whether Diablo was worth keeping for well, for Morris Park or Gravesend, or they could hurry him on a little, and start him at Aqueduct.
Some said he lacked initiative. Frank MacGowan was Langdon's foeman in the struggle for the district attorneyship. Little could be said for or against him. A lawyer of good reputation who had made his way upward by merit and push, he had done nothing big. He was charged with no wrong. The "dark horse" was Daniel Ryan.
I stood for a moment with Tom Langdon's name on my lips, but I could not trust myself. I went away to my own rooms. I thrust thoughts of her from my mind. I spent the night gnawing upon the ropes with which Mowbray Langdon and Roebuck had bound me, hand and foot. I now saw they were ropes of steel and it had long been broad day before I found that weak strand which is in every rope of human make.
Langdon's, and drank Tea there, with a large circle of Ladies;" "in the afternoon drank Tea ... with about 20 ladies, who had been assembled for the occasion;" "exercised between 5 & 7 o'clock in the morning & drank Tea with Mrs. Bingham's in great splendor." Such are the entries in his diary whenever the was "kettle-a-boiling-be" was within reach.
Roebuck's brokers had bought many thousands of Langdon's shares at the high artificial price before Roebuck grasped the situation that it was not my followers recklessly gambling to break the prices, but Langdon unloading on his "pal." As soon as he saw, he abruptly withdrew from the market.
"Why don't you put your money into Gulf City and lose it, then?" replied Norton, nodding his head scornfully. "That'd be a good lesson for a rising young politician like you." Senator Langdon's secretary peered straight into Norton's eyes. "Because, Congressman," he said, "if I were to put my money in Gulf City perhaps I wouldn't lose it."
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