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"I have a right to know, as matters stand. Will you tell me, or must I wait until I see your father?" With that Neil Blakely actually sought to take her hand. She whipped it behind her at the instant. "Will you tell me?" he repeated, bending closer. From down the line, dancing along the wooden veranda, came the sound of swift footfalls Kate Sanders hurrying back.
Teeny-bits expected to hear Neil Durant express courteous regret; he did not for a moment think that the son of Major-General Durant and the most popular member of Ridgley School would be interested in visiting the humble Holbrook home. He was even a little ashamed that Dad Holbrook had extended the invitation with so much genial assurance.
It's it's Neil now and I must see how the boy stands it!" It was but a short time before the guards returned. This time their prisoner walked free and erect. The thongs dangled from his wrists and he was a pace ahead of the two men who accompanied him. He was a young man. Nathaniel judged his age at twenty-five. He was a striking contrast to the man who had suffered first at the post.
'He knows Neil far too well to believe such a thing of him, no matter what may have happened. 'The laird can't help him much if the case goes against him, Master Reggie. It's an awful thing that the money order should have come out of the poor lad's letter; and it looks very bad.
He might have been dead for anything Robert Turner knew. Then, when John Kesley failed and his effects turned over to his creditors, of whom Robert Turner was the chief, a mortgage on the Cove farm at Chiswick, owned by Neil Jameson, had been found among his assets. Inquiry revealed the fact that Neil Jameson was dead and that the farm was run by his widow. Turner felt a pang of disappointment.
The young pastor could not know that she had passed far beyond him on the spiritual road, and the distance between them bewildered him. He began to realise too, to his chagrin, that she was avoiding him. No matter what pains he took to seek her company, she managed, in some mysterious way, to elude him. He wondered gloomily how much Donald Neil had to do with the change.
She put the whole hard facts before him at once, her poverty, her father, for whom she must always care, and her mother, the greatest obstacle of all. "I know all that. Don't you suppose I thought it out before I spoke?" Neil said, drawing her closer to him as he continued: "I am going to tell you the whole truth about myself, and show you my very worst.
As he passed them and entered the building he looked them over keenly with a pair of very sharp and very light blue eyes. "Wow!" muttered Paul. "He looked as though he was trying to decide whether I would taste better fried or baked." "I wonder " began Neil. But at that moment Tom Cowan came up and Paul put the question to him. "The fellow that just came in?" repeated Cowan.
You were splendidly plucky." "Nonsense!" cried the little lady, the colour flaming in her faded cheeks. "But," she added hastily, "you did that beautifully, and he deserved it, the little beast!" "Solar plexus!" said Neil Fraser, who was immediately behind Miss Quigg. The minister glanced from one to the other in perplexity, as they passed out of the door. "But, you know, I was only "
For Mills tore them up very eloquently, and promised them that if they were scored on by the second eleven before the game with Harvard he'd send every man of them to the benches and take the second to Cambridge. Neil walked back to college beside Sydney Burr, insisting that that youth should take his hands from the levers and be pushed.
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