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Within, the most startling change seemed the laughing voices that floated out to him from the library. Harkness took his coat and hat and bag a little excitedly and with repeated nods toward the library. "Miss Robin'll be mighty glad to see you, I'm sure; but she has a lydy guest for dinner." "The man actually acts as though I had no right to come unannounced," thought Cornelius Allendyce.
Just as he was gulping down the coffee Harkness had brought to him, Mr. Granger, Senior, was ushered in. The men knew one another well. They shook hands, then Cornelius Allendyce motioned him to a chair opposite him at the table. The lawyer only needed to look at the other man's face to know that he brought no good news. "Tom telephoned from Cornwall at six o'clock. Not a sign.
Cornelius Allendyce did feel pleased with himself. How many men would have dared put this thing through the way he had? And how well it had all turned out; Madame somewhere seeking her "rest," living in her past, her mind undisturbed, Jimmie sailing away to get inspiration, and little Robin happy in the shelter of Gray Manor.
This ride has been so lovely that I'd hate to spoil it by seeing the Giant up close." "Giants are very powerful. And usually very rich." Cornelius Allendyce enjoyed the fancy. "Yes and they crush and kill, too." "But didn't a Jack climb something or other and overcome one of them in his lair?" At this Robin laughed and then forgot, for the time being, the mills and the dirty houses; when Mr.
"I brought " Robin started an introduction, but did not finish. For, recovering, with an obvious effort, his natural manner of politeness, her guardian was hurrying down the steps to the little car. "Madame Forsyth, I did not expect " "No. I judge from all your faces no one expected me!" exclaimed Madame Forsyth coldly, extending to Cornelius Allendyce the tips of her fingers.
Most of them Miss Effie had selected, as poor Cornelius Allendyce was still confined to his room, and that good-hearted woman had, with a burst of real Christmas spirit, simply duplicated each gift, for, though she wasn't at all sure, yet, that this "companion" of Robin's choosing was the refined sort Robin ought to have, nevertheless she was a girl like Robin and Christmas was Christmas.
"And where is your brother Gordon?" Robin stared. "My brother Gordon?" "Yes. Gordon " "I am Gordon." "You!" "My real name is Gordon but Jimmie doesn't like it. He always said it was too formal for a little girl. So he calls me Red-Robin and he says he'll never call me anything else. Why do you look so funny?" For Mr. Allendyce seemed to have crumpled together and to be quite speechless.
Allendyce hoped Mrs. Budge would give them a very big tea party, she realized she was hungrier than she had ever been before.
Then he was startled out of his usual composure by catching the suggestion of a twinkle in the Harkness eye which, of course, should not be in a Forsyth butler's eye at all. For twenty-five years Cornelius Allendyce had worn nothing but black ties.
She wanted to tell them that she called the Mills a Giant and that she hated them and that Cornelius Allendyce had told her she should look for a Jack who could climb the Bean Stalk, only she was afraid of the stranger and a little of Dale, too. "Won't you tell me all about the the Castle girl?" "There isn't much to tell about her that's different from ninety-nine other cases.
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