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"It can't come to that!" "Can't it? can't it? Where's your eyes? And him a married man! The " Gowan cursed horribly. "You really believe it!" cried Ashton, convinced by the other's outburst. "Believe it? I know it!" declared Gowan. "If you thought half as much of her as I do " "I do! not half, but a hundred times more!" "Yes, you do?" "I swear it! I'd do anything for her!"
"Those last objections cannot be gainsaid," said Ashton; "but they equally apply to all amusements, and therefore, by that rule, all amusements are bad." "But not in an equal degree with that of the theatre," George remarked; "because other amusements do not possess such an infatuation.
"Did Miss Ashton give you these particulars?" asked Maude, toying with a late rose that lay beside her plate. "Yes. I should feel inclined to prosecute the woman, were I Dr. Ashton, for having been so wickedly inconsiderate. But I hope Matilda is better, and that the alarm will end with her. It is four days since I had Anne's letter."
Personally, if I had been in Kennedy's place I think I should have taken advantage of the proviso in the compact with Travis to back out gracefully. Kennedy, however, now started on the case, hung to it tenaciously. Miss Ashton was waiting for us at the press bureau.
Ashton was bored, but accepted. He was well acquainted with the easy good-fellowship of his countrymen. The room in which he sat was a meeting-place for them. He considered that they were always giving each other drinks, and not only were they always introducing themselves, but saying, "Shake hands with my friend, Mr. So-and-So."
"He may change his mind," said Griffith. "The company has authorized me to make it a standing offer. So if he turns up any time " McGraw nodded, and offered his hand to Blake. "Hope you'll come. C'n do m' own work. Bridge needs an engineer, though resident one." "H'm, Mr. Ashton might call that a slap on the wrist," remarked Griffith. "Get on your coat. We're going out to the bridge."
Ashton and Dick and until a short while before an equal stranger to Betty. Almost before the car stopped Betty was out of her seat and ushering her visitors into their big, sweet-smelling drawing-room. There Esther stood close against the wall, trying her best to shrink out of sight even while she reproached herself for her unnecessary awkwardness and fear.
But as though by appointment, the man he had promised to find was waiting for him. As Ford entered the room, at a table facing the door sat Ashton. There was no mistaking him. He wore a mustache, but it was disguise. He was the same good-natured, good-looking youth who, in the photograph from under a Panama hat, had smiled upon the world. With a glad cry Ford rushed toward him.
But Blake attributed all to the excitement and exertion of the headlong rush down the ravine. "No need for you to have hurried so, Lafe," he said. "I suppose you had to go farther around than I thought would be necessary. But I'd rather you had kept me waiting an hour than for you to have chanced spraining an ankle." "Yes, you need me in your business!" scoffed Ashton.
The subsequent frankness of the Master's hospitality, as their acquaintance increased, abated the apprehensions these recollections were calculated to excite; and it did not escape Sir William Ashton, that it was to Lucy's grace and beauty he owed the change in their host's behavior. All these thoughts thronged upon him when he took possession of the secret chamber.
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