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Nan spoke her question with the eagerness of a child, and the shrewd man of the world never dreamed of the sinister motive coiled within the silent depths of her heart. "I've an enemy somewhere among the fallen," Bivens went on musingly, "who is dying hard. With his last gasp he is trying still to reach my heart.
And I'm going to put them there." The assurance in Bivens's voice and the contagious enthusiasm with which he spoke impressed Stuart. Bivens was quick to recognize it and strike at once. "Before I present my plans I want to show you that I can make good my word. I have caused these reporters to be sent here to-day for the purpose of giving the widest publicity to the facts about my fortune.
We'll return the value of his jewels. I'll get the money to make good what you owe him " his voice broke. "Oh, why, why, why didn't you let me know; but what's the use to ask, it's done now!" "Yes, it's done and it can't be undone," the older man interrupted hopelessly. "But it can and it will be undone. I've influence with Bivens. He'll drop the matter and no one on earth will know save we three.
It would be a wait of two hours in bitter cold and pitch darkness, but there was no help for it. Bivens sat up and growled: "What the devil's the matter? Can't you hurry up, I'm freezing to death!" "We can't make it on this tide. We'll have to go to the marsh." "Can't we walk over the flats and let the boat go?" "I could walk it, but you couldn't." "Why not?" Bivens asked, angrily.
I've seen you every day go back and forth in plain view of the yacht. Nan could row out there and back by herself. Send him ashore. Don't you know how to put out your own decoys?" He spoke with the stubbornness of a spoiled child. "If a bad blow comes we'll need two strong men to handle the boat." "Rot!" Bivens cried. "We've got two tenders.
As he settled back among the soft cushions of the car by her side and the big machine glided swiftly up Broadway toward the Bivens palace, his enthusiasm burst out anew: "Honestly, Nan, don't you think her a wonderful little girl? And just to think she's my kid " "Rather a remarkably developed kid, Jim!" was the laughing answer. "She's splendid.
The first view of Bivens was always unimpressive. He was short, thin, and looked almost frail at first glance. A second look gave the impression of wiry reserve force in his compact frame. His hair was jet black and thinning slightly on top which gave him the appearance of much greater age than he could really claim.
In business you are an oppressor of the weak, cruel and unjust, and yet you are a good husband, a loyal friend, and a member of the church. It beats the devil!" Bivens smiled cynically. "Nothing mysterious about it. I came into a world where I found robbery and murder the foundation of our commercial system.
Bivens, get your hand in the first day." Bivens lifted himself to a half-sitting posture, glared at his physician and yelled with fury: "Get out all of you and let me alone!" The doctor and Nan left on tip-toe, but Stuart folded his arms and looked at Bivens. "I'd just like to choke you," he quietly said at last. Bivens turned on him with rage. "How dare you speak to me in that manner?"
As Bivens listened to the sharp ring of his voice pronouncing sentence on evil-doers and saw the officer snap his handcuffs on their wrists his spirits revived. His lawyers were right, after all. Nothing Stuart could say would affect the mind of such a man. The young lawyer sat in silence beside the bowed form, awaiting his case which the judge, at his request, had placed last.
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