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"Come in, come in," said he. "Come in and take a seat. "No supper," said Archie. "It is impossible that I should eat." "Not impossible," said the tall old man, laying his hand upon his shoulder, "and, if you will believe me, necessary." "You know what brings me?" said Archie, as soon as the servant had left the room. "I have a guess, I have a guess," replied Glenalmond.
Day after day the boy drew greater music from the heart of his fiddle. He seemed to stride ahead under the power of the master; and as for Ventnor, he seemed beside himself with joy at what he called his "find." They grew to be friends. Archie confided his great discouragement of ill-health, his inability to attend school. "Me, I fix all that," answered Ventnor.
"Looks better, does he? I wonder how he could have looked before? Such a whitefaced creature I have seldom seen. He reminds me of the laddie that died at Pentlands, of a decline, a month since. I doubt he isn't long for this world." "Whisht!" again interrupted Ellen, "you don't know what you are saying, I think." "Archie is much better," said Lilias, eagerly.
"And just try to be less of an eediot!" he concluded with a freezing smile, and turned immediately to the papers on his desk. LATE the same night, after a disordered walk, Archie was admitted into Lord Glenalmond's dining-room, where he sat with a book upon his knee, beside three frugal coals of fire.
You would see an airplane hovering, and then, close by, suddenly, a ball of cottony white smoke. Shrapnel that was, bursting, as Fritz tried to get the range with an anti-aircraft gun an Archie, as the Tommies call them. But the plane would pay no heed, except, maybe, to dip a bit or climb a little higher to make it harder for the Hun.
The two had assured Tolleston that the buyers might not be back for a week, and suggested a few drinks in memory of old times. As Archie was then three sheets in the wind, his effacement, in the hands of two rounders like Dorg Seay and Bob Quirk, was an easy matter. Once the wagon was loaded and started for camp, I returned to the restaurant.
"Put out the lights and get you to your couch!" the Governor muttered drowsily. The man certainly wore his crimes lightly. He was sound asleep before Archie had got into his pajamas. When they reached the dining-room at ten the next morning they found Seebrook and Walters just finishing breakfast.
The two Norwegians sat on a chest side by side, alike and placid, resembling a pair of love-birds on a perch, and with round eyes stared innocently; but the Russian Finn, in the racket of explosive shouts and rolling laughter, remained motionless, limp and dull, like a deaf man without a backbone. Near him Archie smiled at his needle.
Selincourt had spoken, Mary's engagement to the unknown Archie Raymond, Katherine buried deep in her heart, a thing to be gloated over in secret, a cause for happiness which she did not care to be frank over, even to herself. So the long, busy day went on to evening, and, in spite of all the work there had been to get through, Katherine found herself with half an hour of leisure before bedtime.
"I swear every year," he declared, "I'll never hire another tramp and hereafter I'll let the crops rot before I'll have one on the place." Archie replied with heat that he knew nothing about the Governor or the reason for his precipitate passing.
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