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There had been no joyous self-confidence in that hour, none in the distressed hour at the Orpheum, and the hour just past, when Cherry's rarely displayed passion had wrenched from him his last vestige of doubt. But this was the culminating unhappiness, that he should know, from Alix's brave and gentle and generous look as they parted, that Alix knew.
"Well," he mused aloud, "unless I am mistaken, he is the sort of fellow that women fall for without much of an effort. The sort that can fool women but can't fool men, Mary, if that means anything to you. Now that I think of it, I believe Webster and that friend of his are Well, I'm sure they don't like him. He " "Sh! She is coming!" Alix's quick, light tread was heard in the hall.
There were lights in his sitting-room windows; through them they could see the logs blazing in the big fireplace, beside which sat the lonely, brooding figure of Alix's father. It was late, nearly midnight, and the house was still. Old Maria Bliss and the one other servant had been in bed for hours.
One was in the bold, superior scrawl of a boy, the other ineffably feminine in its painstaking regard for legibility and tidiness. These literary efforts had been cut off short in their infancy. David's vigorously written pages, marred by frequent scratchings and erasures, far outnumbered Alix's. Inspection revealed the further fact that she was thrifty.
I cannot begin to tell you how disappointed I am in not being able to see you this morning. Perhaps by tonight you will feel like letting me come. Ever yours, Courtney." "Well?" said Mrs. Strong, sitting down on the edge of the bed. A fine line appeared between Alix's eyes. She was deep in thought. "Have they caught the man?" she asked, after a moment. "Not that I know of.
"Who is he?" Peter asked curiously. "Where are his people and all that?" "His people live in Portland," the girl answered. "He's a mining engineer, and he's waiting now to be called to El Nido; he's to be at a mine there. He's lots of fun when you know him, really!" "Talking of the new Prince Charming, of course," Anne said, joining them, and linking an arm in her Uncle's and in Alix's arm.
She was beginning to think Peter extremely clever and only Alix's quick tongue a match for him, and to feel that her father knew every book and had seen every worthwhile play in the world.
Alix's indifference to the niceties of her toilet had been seriously combated, years ago, but Cherry was so young, and so pretty in any dress or undress, that it was impossible to regard her little lapses with any gravity.
He had no trouble in distinguishing Alix's clear, young voice, and thereupon added the following words of comfort to his faraway mother: "You will love her voice, mater dear. It's like music. So put away your prejudice and wish me luck. I've made a good start. The fact that she refused to look at me on the porch tonight is the best sign in the world.
"I envy Alix " Cherry said in idle mischief. She knew that the subject was not a safe one, but was irresistibly impelled to pursue it. "Alix?" said Peter, after a silence long enough to make her feel ashamed of herself. "Yes. Her young man lives in Mill Valley, right near home!" elucidated Cherry. "Am I Alix's young man?" he asked, amused. "Well, aren't you?" "I don't know.
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