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"If I do," promised Dave, "I shall merely look over his head when we meet, unless he repeats the offense that brought him that thrashing." Ardmore, however, did not appear in Gridley again during Dave's leave of absence. Dave and Dan tasted, to the full, the delights of life in the old home town until the day when it was necessary for them to take train and return to Annapolis.
"Hang it all," he exclaimed once as, dashing the receiver from his head, he sprang from his chair to pace the floor of the secret tower room, "I'd welcome something in the line of trouble. This eternal thinking thinking thinking, drives me wild. What to do, that's the question. Suppose I'd ought to go out and tell Ardmore what I know.
"It is not the visit at the castle I wish so much, you may be sure," he wrote, "as the fact that Lady Ardmore will make everything pleasant for you. You will like my friend Robin Anstruther, who is Lady Ardmore's youngest brother, and who is going to her to be nursed and coddled after a baddish accident in the hunting-field. He is very sweet-tempered, and will get on well with Francesca "
"I guess Ardmore is wishing his own guard had been more effective," smiled the midshipman. Caspar Ardmore was "busy" within an hour after Dave's summary handling of him. Ardmore had never been considered a truly bad fellow, though he was foppish, conceited and wholly unable to understand why anything that he wanted should be denied him.
In a large room furnished in rich mahogany, seemingly the rich man's home office, he was being greeted by a stout, broad-shouldered, brisk and healthy-looking man who was assuring him that he was speaking to J. Anson Ardmore himself and inviting him to sit down. With his head in a whirl, he managed to get himself into a chair.
Anstruther and Miss Ardmore; yet she does so, nevertheless. The history of these chastisements she recounts in the nightly half-hour which she spends with me when I am endeavouring to compose myself for sleep. Francesca is fluent at all times, but once seated on the foot of my bed she becomes eloquent! "It all began with his saying "
After that pocket a thousand for yourself. Then then Oh, well, hire me a safety deposit box and buy me a lot of Liberty bonds. Might want 'em some day. "And, say, that reminds me," he pointed to a square of vellum which hung on a stretcher in the corner. "Take that over to the big library on the North Side and tell 'em it's a present from us. It's that map Vincent Ardmore gave me.
Do you think I'd sneak out of it because anyone would let me because I am a girl?" Completely at a loss to know what to do upon this turn of events, Curlie stood there staring back at the girl. She at last sank back upon her seat. Curlie took three turns around the deck. At last he approached her with a steady step. "Miss Ardmore," he said, taking off his cap, "I apologize.
Finding that she was not maimed for life, Lady Ardmore turned with comical and unsympathetic haste to Francesca, so completely do amateur theatricals dry the milk of kindness in the human breast. "Put on these clothes at once," she said imperiously, knowing nothing of the volcanoes beneath the surface. "Hynde Horn is already on the stage, and somebody must be Jean.
The letter informed Midshipman Darrin that he has been accused of severely assaulting a citizen without just provocation, and contained, also, some of the circumstances alleged by Caspar Ardmore. Dave was commanded to forward his defense promptly. This Darrin did, in a courteous answer, as briefly as he could properly make it. This letter he showed Belle.
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