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But what will the Dragon say when she sees that I'm a girl?" Mr. Allendyce suddenly laughed aloud. The whole thing was so very simple. Madame only waited a telegram from him to set forth upon her travels. Why let her know that Gordon was a girl until the year had passed? "We will not worry about that, my dear. Madame is going away. She will not be back at Gray Manor for a long time.
"Girls are all alike under their skins. This poor kiddie's been starved for nice things and her sudden good fortune's gone to her head. She doesn't know the value of money, either; what'd seem big to her would be carfare for you. Give her more to do. And she ought to know some young folks." Now Cornelius Allendyce beamed fondly upon his sister. She had comforted him.
I'll be so glad to have you for a friend. And won't you please call me Robin? You see everyone who's ever liked me real well called me that and it'll make me feel homey here." "Well, just between us, Miss Robin." And the old man went off with a mysterious smile that even Budge's sour face could not dispel. The house was very still. Mr. Allendyce was in his room writing some letters.
"I do not think I would have returned to the Manor for several weeks yet, for my health has singularly benefited by my unusual change, except that this escapade of Robin's made me feel that I was needed here. Something she said made up my mind for me, rather quickly. Cornelius Allendyce that child has a great gift. It is the gift of giving.
A man sat at the little table, his head dropped in his outflung arms. Cornelius Allendyce knew it was Jimmie. Another man stood over him, his face flushed with impatience. "Mr. Tony," thought the lawyer. He was evidently just drawing breath after a heated argument. "Pardon my intrusion, gentlemen. I knocked but I do not think you heard me."
Cornelius Allendyce and Percival Tubbs, sitting in a blue cloud of cigar smoke, were pleasantly discussing the pros and cons of the tariff question upon which they agreed, when Robin interrupted them. "Please excuse me, but this is very important." Her breathlessness startled the two men. "I've engaged Beryl to be my chum. I I thought I might be lonely here at Gray Manor.
"A party your guardian is quite right we were remiss of course Madame would have wished in the old days it must be at least an at-home yes, an at-home I have found the cards of the best people of the county in Madame's desk Harkness will know who of them have died yes, an at-home, say from four to seven Mr. Allendyce and his sister will come to help you receive I will talk to Budge yes " Mr.
Allendyce stopped short, for his usual measured words seemed out of place at this moment. "I am Cornelius Allendyce," he finished humbly and guiltily. "I came back to explain." James Forsyth made a lightning-quick movement as though he would spring at the little lawyer's throat. Mr. Tony held him back. "Jimmie wait. Let him talk." "It was Miss Robin's wish to slip away without telling you.
"You'll think, my dear, you've rubbed Aladdin's lamp," she whispered to Beryl, patting down the neat white collar of Beryl's coat. Beryl thought of her words when she followed Mr. Allendyce through a long dim room, crowded with treasures of fabric and ceramic, rich in coloring, fragrant of oriental perfumes.
And it was unthinkable that this man would let the girl go and do nothing. Yet it was not of any possible embarrassment he might suffer that Cornelius Allendyce thought at this moment; it was of the heartbreak of the father. He had not considered him at all; carried away by a mad impulse he had let himself listen to a child and had lost his own sense of justice. Why, it had been rank robbery!
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