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Condy made a pretence of rising to get a match in a ribbed, truncated cone of china that stood upon an adjacent table, and Blix held her breath as he glanced down into the depths of the hat. He resumed his seat. "Only initials," he breathed "W. J. A. It might be Jack, that J., and it might be Joe, or Jeremiah, or Joshua; and even if he was a captain he might not use the title.
But Condy himself had suddenly entered into an atmosphere of happiness, the like of which he had never known or dreamed of before. He loved Blix he had just discovered it.
"I've been saving it up for you, Condy, every penny of it, from the first day we played down there at the lake; and I always told myself that the moment you made up your mind to quit playing, I would give it back to you." "Why, the very idea!" he vociferated, his hands deep in his pockets, his face scarlet. "It's it's preposterous, Blix!
But Blix was as sweet as a rose that morning, all in tailor-made black but for the inevitable bands of white satin wrapped high and tight about her neck. The St. Bernard dog-collar did duty as a belt. She had disdained a veil, and her yellow hair was already blowing about her smooth pink cheeks.
'All is discovered. I'd give a dollar and a half " "If you had it?" "Oh, well, if I had it to know just what it was we have discovered." Suddenly Blix caught his arm. "Condy, here they come!" "Who? Who?" "Our objects, Captain Jack and K. D. B." "Of course, of course. They couldn't stay. The restaurant shuts up at eight."
He picked out the best boat on the beach for them, loaned them his own anchor of railroad iron, indicated minutely the point on the opposite shore off which the last big trout had been "killed," and wetted himself to his ankles as he pushed off the boat. Condy took the oars. Blix sat in the stern, jointing the rods and running the lines through the guides.
"We have never heard of it down here," he said simply. Then he addressed Von Blix. "As to the boys, you couldn't use them farther than Binu, and I'll lend you as many as you want as far as that. How many of your party are going, and how soon will you start?" "Ten," said Tudor; "nine men and myself." "And you should be able to start day after to-morrow," Von Blix said to him.
Sitting in the bay window of the dining-room, he told Blix why he had come. "Oh, you were right!" she told him. "Always, ALWAYS come, when when you feel you must." "It gets so bad sometimes, Blix," he confessed with abject self-contempt, "that when I can't get some one to play against I'll sit down and deal dummy hands, and bet on them. Just the touch of the cards just the FEEL of the chips.
Blix would get these shrimps at a little market near her home. "But," said the clerk, "you got to get a permit to fish in that lake. Have you got a pull with the Water Company? Are you a stockholder?" Condy's face fell, and Blix gave a little gasp of dismay. They looked at each other. Here was a check, indeed.
"Sudden enough," said Condy, "but it IS a great thing for you, Blix, and I'm mighty glad for you. Your future is all cut out for you now. Of course your aunt, if she's so fond of you and hasn't any children, will leave you everything maybe settle something on you right away; and you'll marry some one of those New York chaps, and be great big people before you know it."
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