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"But it will ruin Braden forever. It will be the end of all his hopes, all his ambitions. This will convict him as no other—" "Now, don't get excited, dear," cautioned the other gently. "You're working yourself into an awful state. I think I understand, Anne. You poor old girl!" "I want you to know, Lutie. I want some one to know what he is to me, in spite of everything."
Braden, that he considers her a member of the family, and so long as I won't do it, he—" "Good God, Wade! Don't say anything more! I—" His knees suddenly seemed about to give way under him. He went on in a hoarse whisper: "Why, I—I am a member of the family. You don't suppose he'll—you don't suppose—" "I just thought I'd tell you, sir," broke in Wade, "so's you might be prepared.
"They say that man Braden had been here here, to the house! that morning, not long before he was found dead," answered Dick. "Of course, I said that was all bosh! I said that if he'd been here and seen you, I'd have heard of it, dead certain." "That's not quite so dead certain, Dick, as that I have no knowledge of his ever having been here," said Ransford. "But who says he came here?" "Mrs.
Now, when do you think you can go to London?" Braden, his face aglow, was not long in answering. "I'll speak to Anne about it to-night. If she is willing to marry me at once, we'll start immediately. By Jove, sir, it is wonderful! It is the greatest thing that ever happened to a fellow. "Ah, but I'm afraid that doesn't fit in with my plan," interrupted the old man, knitting his brows.
"Say, you ain't no South'ner," he cried. "Jes' a slick Yank. Ah c'n see through you like winda-pane!" Braden laughed again, tapping the shoulder of the section-boss. "You ain't wise," he confided. "Farmin' out here with cows around means fences. But hang on if you want to. It's your land." He ended this with a jovial slap, and made for the door. From it, he could see the girls.
"He's quite sane, Simmy," said Braden, with a smile that was meant to be pleasant but fell short of the mark. "He's an infernal old traitor, then," said Simmy hotly. "I wouldn't treat a dog as he has treated you,—no kind of a dog, mind you. Not even a Pekinese, and I hate 'em worse than snakes. What the devil does Anne mean? Lordy, Lordy, man, she's always been in love with you.
"There was a certain man that Braden was very anxious to find," said Glassdale. "He'd been looking for him for a good many years." "A man?" asked Folliot. "One?" "Well, as a matter of fact, there were two," admitted Glassdale, "but there was one in particular. The other the second so Braden said, didn't matter; he was or had been, only a sort of cat's-paw of the man he especially wanted."
The fact is he's suspicious what with one thing or another about the former affair. He thinks you concealed the truth whatever it may be as regards any knowledge of Braden which you may or mayn't have." "I'll tell you what it is!" said Ransford suddenly.
He rents the fastest coast-steamer he can find. Then, he goes 'way up north in the Atlantic and lays-to with his weather eye open. Day or two, long comes a' iceberg big as a house. And by , he hitches to it, and Boston gits ice!" And now, like a ponderous bobcat descending upon its prey, Braden stole soft-footed across the room. "Nick!" he said.
Think the matter over for a few days and then come to see me." "I am placed in a most unhappy position," said Braden, with dignity. "Mrs. Thorpe appreciates my feelings, I am sure. She was led to believe, as I was, that my grandfather had left me out of his will. Such a thing as this subterfuge never crossed my mind, nor hers.
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