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I put it to you right plain and friendly." Lans was thrilled. He rose to any vision called up by another; as for himself he was no vision-builder. His face flushed and his eyes flashed.
Lans was always erratic and poetic, but this is beyond my comprehension, He has had affairs of the heart, of course, but this is different. The girl is the strangest creature I ever saw; she is uncanny. After I got her into proper clothing I saw she had beauty and charm of a certain kind.
The two men confronted each other helplessly, silently, and then Lans Treadwell, overcome by sudden remorse, and a kind of fear, strove to propitiate the sternness that found no expression in words. "I've been devilishly wrong, Sand, and returned your hospitality and friendship with bad grace, old fellow, but I drifted into it and when it was too late I did what seemed the only decent thing.
"And I know few fellows who have won out as you have," he said admiringly. "You have that in you, about you, that attracts and compels. People trust you, like you need you when a pinch comes." "Thank you, Lans." "And God knows I want you, need you, now!"
An overpowering excitement in the speaker began to affect Cynthia. She drew her chair closer and whispered: "Please tell me all about it!" The significant words rushed Marian Spaulding breathlessly onward. "I I could not go to him to Lans until I made sure as sure as possible that I would not be injuring him by by my demands. I wanted to tell some one who loved him and would think of him, first.
"You are too young to go to college, Lans; too immature to really put yourself to any final test. Your assumption of dignity proves this more than anything else. Of course I do not know how much or how little you know of the past, but it is necessary, from now on, that you and I should understand each other perfectly. I was very" Levi struggled for composure "very fond of your mother."
Then it further appeared that should Lans Treadwell desire to return to the hills of his fathers, the way would be made easy, and with Crothers to back the efforts of the "blue blood" a very respectable opposition would evolve to check the growing strength of such men as Sandy Morley.
My mother has been long dead. My father will return by evening meal time. Come in here, Lans you see I have unoccupied quarters " He led him to Levi's apartments. "Make yourself comfortable. I'll start a fire on the hearth in this bedroom and the adjoining sitting-room." "Well, I'll be" Treadwell glanced about at the plain luxury "eternally flambusted! If you are not a " Then he laughed.
Sandy felt the cool, wet outer air touch his face as he leaned forward, for at last Lans Treadwell had aroused him. He was not, however, thinking of Lans and his yearnings; he was thinking of a little, unknown woman who was following the gleam of her conscience, while love, selfish love, was ready to spring upon her with its demands, before she had wrestled with and solved her own problem.
He grew restless at times and found himself longing to tell Treadwell that the Markhams were coming to The Hollow for Christmas, and the rooms occupied by Lans would be needed. But the days went by and Cynthia kept from sight. The truth was, Sally Taber had gone to Trouble Neck and spread the news and warning. "You-all bes' stay away," she said; "dis yere Yank be right triflin' and polite.
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