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Her possessing a bent toward such activities was hardly to be wondered at, with her having Old Jimmie as her father, and the Duchess as a landlady, and having for acquaintances such gentlemen as Barney Palmer and this returning prison-bird, Larry Brainard. But petty crime, thought Hunt, would not be Maggie's forte if she developed her possibilities.
I am growing rather nervous about the matter. Be very discreet. The slightest error might ruin all. If possible, manage to come in contact with Brainard, and hear how he talks of me, and of our enterprise. You will know how to neutralize any gratuitous assertions he may feel inclined to make. Also get, by some means, access to Mr. Markland. I want your close observation in this quarter.
Thus apprised of the condition of the two vessels, he gave the welcome order to "knock off for the night." "At the piping of all hands, When the judgment signal's spread When the islands and the land, And the seas give up their dead, And the south and the north shall come; When the sinner is dismayed, And the just man is afraid, Then heaven be thy aid, Poor Tom." Brainard.
Her own eyes fell to the floor, and she stood silent for some moments silent, but hurriedly thoughtful. Then looking up, she said, in a hesitating voice "We can do without that." And she pointed towards the piano. "Without what?" asked Brainard, quickly. "The piano. It cost four hundred dollars. Sell it." "Never!" "Why not?" "Don't mention it, Anna. Sell your piano! It shall never be done."
Brainard took the radiant face between her soft, white, ringless hands and kissed it as a mother might. In no time at all the hour had come for the visitors to go to their train. In spite of their protests Brown would have a cab come for them, though it took him some minutes to get one in a quarter of the city where such luxury was rare.
It was several minutes before Brainard spoke. Then it was that he showed his wonderful power of concentration. "I have a conference in half an hour, Constance," he remarked, looking at his watch. "It is very important. It means getting money to support Motors on the opening to-morrow after I have gathered in again what I need. I think I can come pretty near doubling my holdings if I play it right.
I was glad when Jessica came home to set up our little establishment and to join in the autumn gayeties. Brainard brought his wife to the city soon after, and went to housekeeping in an odd sort of a way. "I couldn't see anything in the place save curios," Jessica reported, after her first call on them. "I suppose there is a cookingstove somewhere, and maybe even a pantry with pots in it.
Brainard," she began, in her smiling, direct manner, with a touch of brisk commonplace in it which helped relieve the tension, "I want to apologize to you for the way I treated you late this afternoon. As I said, I've just had a talk with Dick and he's told me everything except some things we may all have to tell each other later. I was entirely in the wrong, and you were entirely in the right.
She went one way I, another. Oh well what's the use? I went too far the wrong way. I must pay. Only let me save what I can from the wreck." It was not Constance, the woman, to whom he was talking. It was Constance, the secretary. Yet it was the woman, not the secretary, who listened. Brainard stopped again beside her desk.
She leaped lightly to the floor. For just a moment she seemed about to lose her balance. Then she felt an arm steadying her. He had caught her and for an instant their eyes met. "Well, Rodman I scarcely thought it was as brazen as this!" They turned in surprise. Mrs. Brainard was standing in the doorway.
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