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"Most of the old Akers' Manor back, and there are those who think he ought to be recognized. I hope you will give him a ball of the right color, sir." "Greenwood, I am not well acquainted with Israel Akers. I see him at the market dinner occasionally, but " "Think of it, sir. It is mebbe right to believe in a man until you find out he isn't worthy of trust."
Akers died; well, he was one of the judges, and I was asked to take his place, and I consented, because I saw that I had an office-boy who would attend to his work." Hal put his hand out vaguely towards the table as if to lean on it for support. Mr.
"You don't expect me to answer it, do you?" "I do." "If you have come here to talk to me about marrying her " "She won't marry you," Willy Cameron said steadily. "That's not the point I want your own acknowledgment of responsibility, that's all." Akers was puzzled, suspicious, and yet relieved. He lighted a cigarette and over the match stared at the other man's quiet face. "No!" he said suddenly.
Lily had not intended to make a secret of the visit, but as time went on she found it increasingly difficult to tell about it. She should, she knew, have spoken at once, and it would be hard to explain why she had delayed. She meant to go to her father with it. It was he who had forbidden her to see Akers, for one thing. And she felt nearer to her father than to her mother, always.
He did not believe that Akers cared a penny piece for a membership, and pooh-pooh it as he would, this trifling affair would not let him alone. It gnawed under the great sorrow of Jane's absence, like a rat gnawing under his bed or chair.
She connected that with Louis Akers, and from that to Akers' threat against Cameron was only a step. She was frightened and somewhat resentful, that this other girl should have saved him from a revenge that she knew was directed at herself. That she, who had brought this thing about, had sat quietly at home while another woman, a woman who loved him, had saved him.
Quite lately she had heard that if Lily was not already engaged she probably would be, soon. Now her motives were mixed, and her emotions confused. She had wanted to tell Willy Cameron what she knew, but she wanted Lily to marry Louis Akers. She wanted that terribly. Then Lily would be out of the way, and Willy was not like Dan; he did not seem to think her forever lost.
"All right, old top," he said, "but it is also time the plain people got up." Then he flung the sponge and departed with extreme expedition. It was not until a week had passed after Louis Akers' visit to the house that Lily's family learned of it. Lily's state of mind during that week had been an unhappy one.
Akers did not go to work immediately. He sat for some time, a cigarette in his hand, his eyes slightly narrowed. He believed that he could marry Lily Cardew. It would take time and all his skill, but he believed he could do it. His mind wandered to Lily herself, her youth and charm, her soft red mouth, the feel of her warm young body in his arms. He brought himself up sharply.
He saw that he had gone to pieces under defeat, and men did strange things at those times. With uncanny shrewdness he gauged Akers' reaction; his loss of confidence and, he surmised, his loyalty. He would follow his own interest now, and if he thought that it lay in turning informer, he might try it. But it would take courage. When the conference broke up Doyle was sure of where his man stood.
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