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She did not tell, but she knew that I knew. That child was a trump." "Well, what can you expect of a girl who was a child like that?" said Risley. "Mind you, in a way I don't like it. This power for secretiveness and this rigidity of pride in a girl of that age strike me rather unpleasantly.
"Why in the name of common-sense, Cynthia," he said, abruptly, without noticing her query, "if you had to give that child china for a souvenir, didn't you give her something besides Royal Sèvres?" Lyman Risley undoubtedly looked younger than Cynthia, but his manner even more than his looks gave him the appearance of comparative youth.
"And if your business suffers at all, Jim, you need never fear you'll be at a loss in the end," said Buck. "There's plenty of money for everything." "Oh, that's all right," returned Dent. "Didn't you say you're offering a reward of £500 for finding the Professor?" "That's so," replied Risley. "Very good," said Dent. "Suppose I hit on him first and pick that up.
"Do you object to a cigar, Miss Brewster?" asked Robert, and Risley looked inquiringly at her. "Oh, no," replied Ellen, with the eager readiness of a child to fit into new conditions. She thought of the sitting-room at home, blue with the rank pipe-smoke of Nahum Beals and his kind.
"I believe you would make a good walking delegate." Risley laughed. "I think I would myself," he said. "Wouldn't she listen to you, Robert?" "She listened with such utter dissent that she might as well have been dumb. It is all over between us, Risley." "How precipitate you are, you young folks!" said the other, good-humoredly. "How precipitate? Do you mean to say ?"
"He might persuade her to have the operation." "His mere existence is persuasion enough, if she is to be persuaded. And I hope she may consent before long. She has seemed a little more comfortable lately, too." "I suppose sometimes those hideous things go away as mysteriously as they come," said Risley. "Yes," replied Robert. "Going back to our first subject " Risley laughed.
Now and then he met her on the street and raised his hat, that was all. Still, he began to wonder more and more if his aunt had not been mistaken in her view of the girl's motive for giving up college and going to work. Then, later on, he learned from Lyman Risley that a small mortgage had been put on the Brewster house some time before.
But before I could speak up and take his part, for I will not hear my companion found fault with by any female but myself, she had gathered up her robe, and swept upstairs with it, leavin' orders for a flatiron to be sent up. Wall, the believers wuz all a-goin' to meet at the Risley school-house that afternoon. They wuz about 40 of 'em, men and wimmen.
"Oh, Cynthia, have you heard " she began, but Risley cut her short. "About that little girl who ran away?" he said. "Yes, we have; we were just talking about her." "Did you ever hear anything like it?" said Mrs. Lloyd. "They say they can't find out where she's been. She won't tell. Don't you believe somebody has threatened her if she does?"
Again to Risley, gazing at her, came the conviction as of subtle spiritual deformity in the woman; she was unnatural in something the same fashion that an orchid is unnatural, and it was worse, because presumably the orchid does not know it is an orchid and regret not being another, more evenly developed, flower, and Cynthia had a full realization and a mental mirror clear enough to see the twist in her own character.
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