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Josiah wuz real horrified, he had been almost sheddin' tears he wuz so affected by it; to think the little creeter should be torn away by a strange chance of Providence from a mother who worshipped her, and whose whole life and every thought wuz jest wrapped up in the child, and who never had thought nor cared for anything else only just the well bein' of the child and wardin' trouble off of her, for so the piece stated.
Conward has been hurt; fell against a desk, or something. Nothing serious, but may need a stitch or two." Then, turning to Conward, "It will depend on you whether this affair gets to the public. On you, and Miss Wardin. Make your own explanations. And as soon as you are able to be about our partnership will be dissolved."
It was so of Irene's pet; it was so of poor, tubercular Merton; it was to be so of pretty Gladys Wardin But the girl had broken into violent tears. "Whatever shall I do what can I do?" she moaned. "Oh, why didn't somebody tell me? What can I do " He let her passion run on for a few minutes, and then he sought, as gently as he could, to win her back to some composure.
Conward was ready enough to adopt Dave's suggestion that their quarrel should not come to the notice of the public, and Gladys Wardin apparently kept her own counsel in the matter.
Stenographers who had been receiving a hundred dollars a month could not readily bring themselves to accept fifty, and some of them had to make way for new girls, fresh from the business colleges. Such a new girl was Gladys Wardin; pretty, likeable, inexperienced.
Elden?" she exclaimed. "Is anything wrong?" He found it hard to meet her frank, unsuspecting eyes; hard to draw back the curtains of the world so much that those eyes would never again be quite so frank and unsuspecting. . . . "Miss Wardin," he said, "did Conward tell you that?" "What? About going to the mountains? Of course.
There was a menace in his last words that frightened even Gladys Wardin, well though she knew the menace was not to her, but ranged in her defence. "Here," he said, taking some bills from his pocket. "You must tell him you can't go tell him you won't go; you must return his money; I will lend you what you need. Don't be afraid; I will go with you " "But I can't take your money, either, Mr.
When he returned to where Miss Wardin stood, wrapped about in her misery, his fists were clenched and the veins stood out on the back of his hands. "Scoundrel," he muttered, "scoundrel. And I have been tied to him. I have let him blind me; I have let him set the standards; I have let him weigh the coal. Well, now I know him."
"It means, Conward," Dave answered, and there was steel in his voice "it means that after all these years I have discovered what a cur you are just in time to baulk you, at least in this instance." Conward flushed, but he maintained an attitude of composure. "You've been drinking, Dave," he said. "I meant no harm to Miss Wardin." "Don't make me call you a liar as well as a cur."
He had evidently not expected to find Elden there, but after a moment of hesitation he nodded cordially to his partner. "Almost ready, Miss Wardin?" he asked, cheerily. "Our train goes in " He took his watch from his pocket and consulted it. Dave's eyes were fixed on the girl. He wondered whether, in this testing moment, she would fight for herself or lean weakly on him as her protector.
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