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You will pardon me for remarking it again, sir; but, considering that they're ladies, their actions and goings-on is most peculiar." "As to luggage, I hope you had the intelligence to note whether they went for a long stay?" "Only the suitcases that fits into the rack of the machine. Louise thought they might be going for a week, maybe." This was all I got out of him. Mrs. Bashford and Mrs.
Antoine was manifestly impatient at my refusal to be aroused by his hints of discord among his associates and my lack of interest in the inquiries for Mrs. Bashford. When we had reached the farm and were running through the grounds Antoine spoke again: "We thought we would put you up at the house, Mr. Singleton, and not in the garage," he said inquiringly.
Brown, a rather smart and socially ambitious lady, must have regarded me as something of an anarchist, a person to avoid. She always smiled as we met, but her smile was defensive. However, a blessed break in the monotony of my fare came during April when my friend Bashford invited me to visit him in Portland.
Some very good Christians are also very nice heathens: we mustn't be narrow and bigoted about such things." "I think," said Mrs. Bashford soberly, "that I have always believed in witches; and if I keep on believing I shall see one some day. We shall find anything in this world that we believe in hard enough.
"He would have lived longer if he had! It was probably the poetry and fairies that attracted him to Mrs. Bashford." "Yes, sir," he acquiesced with a gulp. "I suppose you're right, sir." "You should be grateful to Mrs. Bashford for not bouncing you all for the row you made last night. It could be done; in fact, Mr. Torrence has suggested that legal means could be found for getting rid of you."
Farnsworth as Mrs. Bashford a not unnatural mistake and there was an embarrassing moment as I set him right. Having done this, I seated myself beside Mrs. Farnsworth that Torrence might be free to talk business with my aunt.
Bashford had roused my curiosity. In spite of my legal right to live on the farm, I had no intention of remaining if my uncle's widow turned up. Alone on the estate I could lodge in the garage without any loss of dignity, but with an aunt on the premises my status would be decidedly uncomfortable.
At last in the hour when my perplexity was greatest the decisive impetus came, brought by a chance visitor, a young clergyman from Portland, Maine, who arrived in the town to buy some farms for himself and a friend. Though a native of Madison Mr. Bashford had won a place in the east and had decided to put some part of his salary into Dakota's alluring soil.
I found myself liking Raynor very much. "Mr. Raynor told me that he wished to speak to Mrs. Bashford privately," said Torrence. "If he's satisfied, I'm sure I have no objection to Mr. Singleton's remaining. I regret that my own duty is a disagreeable one." "Really!" murmured Alice with nicely shaded impudence.
And it occurs to me that the more inconspicuous you make this bunch of lazy dependents the more agreeable it will be for Mrs. Bashford." "You don't expect much of me! It was never in the contract that I should become the patriarch of these venerable relics. But I'll warn them to conceal themselves as much as possible.
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