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"Ladies and gentlemen," he said sadly, placing the cards back on the edge of the table, "I am sorry to say that Mr. Doone is right. The pack has been run up. There it is for any of you to examine it. I don't pretend to understand. Most of you know that McKeever has been with me for years. Needless to say, he will be with me no more."
"Now that, Cap'n, is jus' what I'm afraid of. We git all that's comin' that sounds a right smart better!" "Company ahead, Cap'n!" The trooper who had suggested this action, indicated a man walking down the drive to meet their cavalcade. "That's Mr. McKeever." Drew identified their host for Campbell. But the captain was already moving ahead to meet the older man.
Hatred for this smooth-faced McKeever was waxing in him, and hatred in Ronicky Doone meant battle. An interruption came to him from the side. It came in the form of a brief rustling of silk, like the stir of wind, and then Ruth Tolliver's coppery hair and green-blue eyes were before him Ruth Tolliver in an evening gown and wonderful to look at.
Prevention of neglect and cruelty in the homes of the children themselves is the immediate goal of all constructive effort. The education of public opinion to demand universal consideration for child life is the ultimate aim. MANGOLD: Problems of Child Welfare, pages 166-184, 271-341. CLOPPER: Child Labor in the City Street. MCKEEVER: Training the Boy, pages 203-213.
"Nonsense!" said McKeever happily. "They can't follow my hands." "This fellow Doone I don't know." "I'll take the chance." "If you're caught I turn you out. You hear? Are you willing to take the risk?" "Yes," said McKeever, very pale, but determined. At the right moment McKeever approached Jerry and Ronicky, dark, handsome, smoothly amiable.
McKeever was gathering the youngster in the hollow of his hand, and Ronicky Doone, fully awake and aware of all that was happening, felt a gathering rage accumulate in him. There was something doubly horrible in this cheating in this place. Ronicky set his teeth and watched. Plainly he was the chosen victim. The winnings of Jerry Smith were carefully balanced against the losses of Ronicky Doone.
BOSANQUET: The Family, pages 299-314. GODDARD: The Kallikak Family. EAMES: Principles of Eugenics. SALEEBY: Parenthood and Race Culture, pages 213-236. MCKEEVER: Farm Boys and Girls, pages 171-196. GALTON: Inquiries into Human Faculty. 55. =Child Labor and Its Effects.= Excessive child labor away from home is one of the evils that has called for reform more than the lack of employment.
Drew borrowed a carbine, stringing a dubiously white strip of shirt tail from its barrel, and flanked by Kirby and Driscoll, a trooper Campbell had appointed, rode slowly up the broad street opening from the pike. Great trees arched overhead, almost as they had across the drive of the McKeever place, and the houses were fine, equal to the best about Lexington.
And, turning on his heel, the old fellow walked slowly away, his hands clasped behind him, his head bowed. And the crowd poured after him to shake his hand and tell him of their unshakable confidence in his honesty. McKeever was ruined, but the house of Frederic Fernand was more firmly established than ever, after the trial of the night. Trapped! "Get the money," said Ronicky to Jerry Smith.
To help him he had selected two men, both young, both shrewd, both iron in will and nerve and courage, both apparently equally expert with the cards, and both just as equally capable of pleasing his clients. One was a Scotchman, McKeever; the other was a Jew, Simonds. But in looks they were as much alike as two peas out of one pod.
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