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"What kind of things do you suppose he does like?" "There's no telling. Maybe he's a sissy chap, and will howl at your guns and spiders. Perhaps he'll prefer autumn leaves and worsted mottoes for decoration." "Not much he will," contested the other. "No son of Walter Neilson's could be a sissy.
"Isn't he looking well!" says Minnie excitedly. Sir Maurice is indeed looking very handsome as he comes up the room. It brings a mutual smile to Margaret and Colonel Neilson's lips as they note the extreme care with which he has got himself up for the visit to his wife! He is holding his head very high, and the flower in his button-hole has evidently been chosen with great care.
Chan suddenly turned to Neilson, evidently imbued with Ray's fervor. "What do you think of that, old man?" he asked menacingly. Thus Chan, too, had escaped from Neilson's dominance: plainly Ray was his idol now. It was also plain that he recognized attributes of mercy and decency in his grizzled leader that might interfere with his own and his companion's plans.
A certain pale-faced little widow over at the South End knew just how good Miss Neilson's tea tasted on a crisp October afternoon and Marie Hawthorn, a frail young woman who gave music lessons, knew just how restful was Miss Neilson's couch after a weary day of long walks and fretful pupils.
Ray's dreadful crime of a few days past had given him an added insolence and self-assurance that complicated the problem still further. The leopard that has once tasted human flesh is not to be trusted again. Finally, there remained this matter of Beatrice. Neilson's love for his daughter forbade that he should force her to receive unwelcome attentions.
Sometime the situation would be reversed; he would be leader instead of underling, taking the lion's share of the profit of their enterprises instead of the left-overs, and when that time came he would not be obliged to endure Neilson's jests in silence. Neilson himself, as he eyed the stiffening figure, had no realization of Ray's true attitude toward him.
Try hard as he might he couldn't restrain a surge of color in his cheeks. "Yes, and what's the rest of it?" Neilson asked. "Nothing I know of." "You've got some white marks on your cheeks where it ain't red. The kid can slap, can't she " Ray flushed deeper, but the lines of Neilson's face began to deepen and draw. Then his voice broke in a great, hearty chuckle.
I have come back to marry you!" "To marry her?" exclaimed Mrs. Clemm. "At once, do you mean?" "At once! Today or tomorrow for I must be getting back to Richmond as soon as possible. Don't you see, Muddie, that this is just a plot of Neilson's to separate us? He never cared for me he loves Virginia and is determined I shall not have her. But we'll outwit him! We'll be married at once.
She settles in her corner and thinks the good night over and over, until she again sees Miss Neilson's love-lit, impassioned countenance. The sun has dropped down and it is quite cold now. They must go for Cecil. "Oh," cries Violet, remorsefully, "we forgot Cecil! We never brought her anything! But I have a lovely box of creams at home; only you do not like her to eat so much sweets."
A momentary thrill of curiosity broke in upon my depression as I sat down to open it. A comer on the reverse of the envelope bore the blotted legend: 'Very sorry, but there's one other thing a pair of rigging screws from Carey and Neilson's, size 1 3/8, galvanized. Here it is: Yacht 'Dulcibella, Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, 21st Sept.
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