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John Purdie for what he was a well-to-do, well-dressed, active-brained young business man, probably accustomed to controlling and dealing with important affairs. And well satisfied with this preliminary inspection, he immediately plunged into the affair of the moment. "Mister," began Melky, pulling up a chair to Purdie's side, and assuming a tone and manner of implicit confidence.
She would write to him the moment she got home, and let her heart speak out for once. Pride was in abeyance. She was all tenderness. At the Robinson's house she received a warm welcome. Mrs. Robinson had almost got over her secret fear of her future daughter-in-law. Jeannie admired her intensely, and wee Jimsie frankly loved her. Aunt Purdie's were not the only gifts she delivered.
Ayscough's curiosity was aroused by Mirandolet's manner, and without going back to Purdie's room, he set out with him. Mirandolet remained strangely silent until they came to the street in which the mortuary stood. "A strange and mysterious matter this, my friend!" he said.
Now, then, who's the man who's been dropping his cuff-links about?" Purdie, who had listened with deep attention to the American's statement, immediately put a question. "That's but answered by asking you something," he said. "You no doubt know the names of the men to whom those sets of studs were given?" But to Purdie's disappointment, the American shook his head.
The Spring Street Post Office, at which Levendale's wire had been handed in, was only a few minutes' walk from the house. It stood, in fact, between Purdie's hotel and Sussex Square, and he had passed it on his way to Levendale's.
The receipt of Macgregor's letter, with all its implied reproaches, however, not only hurt her feelings, but set her pride up in arms. 'He had nae business to write as if I was a selfish thing; as if I had nae right to decide for masel'! As a matter of fact, her sole reason for accepting Mrs. Purdie's invitation had been a fear of offending Macgregor's important relatives by a refusal.
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