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The pallor of the bride's face perhaps adds to my delusion but it's painfully real. I never go to a church wedding. The apparition haunts me for days." Bivens smiled wanly. "But what will you do when your time comes, old man? You can't run away then." "That's just what I will do run away and take my girl with me. We'll elope and be married in street clothes. It's more human."
"It vitally affects the credibility of this story." "You must know my motive?" "I prefer to be sure of it before taking so important and daring an action as you suggest." Bivens rose and stood before his friend with his smooth hands folded behind his back. "You believe me, Jim, when I say that my pride in your career is genuine?" "I've never doubted it," was the quick answer.
Would you mind telling me the mental process by which you rejected my offer?" "What's the use to discuss it, I've made up my mind and that's the end of it." "But I want to know," Bivens persisted. "Your silence on the subject makes me furious every time I think of it. How any human being outside of an insane asylum could be so foolish is beyond my ken."
With a cheerful pressure of the hand the president of the Van Dam Trust Company left and Bivens called his secretary. "We turn the market to-morrow orders to all our men. Knock the bottom out of it until the noon hour, then turn and send it skyward with a bound. You understand?" "Yes sir." With an instinctive military salute the secretary hurried to execute the order. When Dr.
"The thing that puzzles me," Bivens broke in, "is why the devil he will not come to the house. When I meet him down town he's always friendly." Nan's lips quivered with a queer little smile. "Will he succeed in this action against these men?" "No." "Why?" "He can't get the facts." "If he could get them and did succeed, what would happen?" "He'd shake the foundations of the financial world."
Bivens's mouth quivered with the slightest sneer. "Perhaps it was lost in transit!" The sneer was lost on the doctor. He was too intent on his purpose. "I know. It was a mistake. I see it now, and I'm perfectly willing to pay for that mistake by accepting even half of your last proposition." Bivens laughed cynically. "This might be serious, Woodman, if it wasn't funny.
"I hope you have forgotten the lack of appreciation you met at the hands of my crowd of thoughtless banqueters in the ovation you have had this evening." Harriet's little figure suddenly stiffened at the sight of Nan, but at the sound of her friendly voice, relaxed, and moved to meet the extended hand. "Thank you, Mrs. Bivens," she replied cordially.
The women certainly made a hit. But I can't quite figure my wife appearing in it." Nan lifted her eyebrows: "I promise you faithfully not to appear in a bathing suit." "Just one more pet aversion, dear," Bivens smiled. "You won't have any kind of an animal party, will you?" "There'll be many kinds of animals present if they could only be accurately catalogued." "I mean, particularly, monkeys.
"Take your time, Jim," Bivens broke in, rising. "'There's a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at its flood' you know the rest. But this tide will not ebb out for you to-night. I'm going to let it flow about you for days and weeks and months if need be. In the meantime I've got to see more of you. Nan wants it and I want it. You must come up to our house and entertainments.
He crouched low in the blind for five minutes without getting a shot, rose and looked for the tender. To his horror he saw her drifting helpless before the wind, her engine stopped and both men waving frantically their signals of distress. "My God!" he exclaimed. "The tender's engine is broken down." Bivens rose and looked in the direction Stuart pointed. "Why don't the fools use the oars?"
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