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Bentley's niece, and Doris made no advances to the young man, to whom her name was clearly quite unknown. Had Circe really got him in her toils? Doris judged him soft-headed and soft-hearted; no match at all for the lady.
I have been face to face with such dreadful, unimagined things, and in my ignorance I did not conceive that life held such terrors. And when I look at my father, the thought of immortality turns me faint. After you have come here this afternoon there can be no longer any reason why we should not meet, and all the world know it. I will go with you to Mr. Bentley's.
And it had so happened, a few years before, for the accommodation of some young men of his acquaintance that he had invested rather generously in Grantham mining stock at twenty-five cents a share, and had promptly forgotten the transaction. To cut a long story short, in addition to Mr. Bentley's house and other effects, Mr.
Bentley I forget his name. Mr. Bentley's room being all upset with police and accountants and things, the new manager has been using your office. And I was in there to-day, and he was engaging a young lady for the millinery, sir. He didn't recognise her, not having been here long enough, but I did. It was Miss Payne. 'Impossible! 'Yes, sir; Miss Payne that is to say, Mrs. Tudor.
Bentley's care, a man upon whom you once showed no mercy. I leave Garvin, who has gone to his death, and Kate Marcy and Horace Bentley to your conscience, Mr. Parr. That they are representative of many others, I do not doubt. I tell you solemnly that the whole meaning of life is service to others, and I warn you, before it is too late, to repent and make amends.
Claret presently succeeded the sherry, but not until Bentley's health had been drunk again and the orderly summoned from the front porch to go, with the general's compliments, and tell him so. "This claret," he then declared, "is some I saved from the dozen Barry & Patton put aboard the Montana when I came round to Yuma last year.
It was wonderful that she lived so long." Alice threw her arms round Mrs. Bentley's neck. "O nurse, it is all so dreadful and sad. Couldn't we have somehow kept her with us and made her happy?" The old woman held her close. "Nay, my dear bairn, never after that happened. It, or worse, might have come again. It's something stronger in them than we know; it's the very blood, I'm thinking.
Belle asked at last. "That's what I want your help in making," Dave answered. "Can you get hold of Dan?" "No trouble about that. But keeping hold of him may be more difficult," laughed Dave. "I was going to propose that you get Dan, call here and then we'll all go over to Laura Bentley's. I know she'll be anxious to see us." "Nothing could be better in the way of a plan," assented Dave.
"He done gone away fishin' wid Mars' Bentley," replied the old butler, pausing; "and dey ain't got back yit, tank de Lawd; but I spec 'em ev'y minute, suh." Bentley's Prayer As he spoke, a fresh youthful voice was heard in the hall. "Father, Kate, where are you? Come see our string of Why, what's all this?" said a young man, standing astonished in the door of the room.
He thought of the figure in the dark at the foot of the steps that had fought so savagely for the package now in his own pocket of the girl who had pleaded so convincingly on the balcony for his help of the colder, more sophisticated woman who came with Hal Bentley's authority to ask of him the same favor. Myra Thornhill? He had heard the name, surely. But where? Mr.
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