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Grayson might do something," he continued in the same voice. "Uncle Peter! Why, Garry, he doesn't earn ten thousand dollars in three years." Again there was silence. "Well, would it be any use for you to ask Arthur Breen? He wouldn't give me a cent, and I wouldn't ask him. I don't believe in laying down on your wife's relations, but he might do it for you now that you're getting up in the world."
He may help Corinne this time, now that Garry is dead. There must be some outside money due Garry that he has not been able to collect commissions on unfinished work. This can be turned in when it is due. Then I am going to Uncle Peter, and after that to some of the people we trade with." Breen was standing by the ticker when Jack entered.
The best thing for him was to take his leave as quietly as possible, without committing her to anything anything which he felt sure she would repudiate as soon as she learned if she did not know already how undesirable an acquaintance John Breen, of Breen & Co., was, etc.
In conversation with him one night after one of the meetings, when he had been specially hard upon the ignorant and godless, I innocently changed the subject to Billy Breen, whom Geordie had taken to his shack since the night of the League. He was very proud of Billy's success in the fight against whisky, the credit of which he divided unevenly between Mrs. Mavor and himself.
When the king left us we went for a walk through the village, talking it over. Breen said they'd better take the offer, and I thought they'd have to, but Jessamine wasn't satisfied. He says: "We haven't the authority. How do you know we wouldn't get into trouble at home? We've got to take him back. But you see, that isn't the point. The point is, here's where we make a hit.
Cohen lay back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Do not mind him, Mr. Breen, do not mind a word he says. He mortifies me that same way. And now " here he turned his head to Peter "what does he think of my race?" "Oh! He thinks you are a lot of money-getters and pawnbrokers, gouging the poor and squeezing the rich." Jack broke out into a cold perspiration: "Really, Uncle Peter! Now, Mr.
Breen, of course, raved when Corinne at last opened the door of her cage for Garry, went to bed, in fact, for the day, to accentuate her despair and mark her near approach to death because of it a piece of inconsistency she could well have spared herself, knowing Corinne as she had, from the day of her birth, and remembering as she must have done, her own escapade with the almost penniless young army officer who afterward became Corinne's father.
Breen, I hope you will have better luck," Isaac said, rising from his chair and holding out his hand. "But you are not going, Isaac," protested Peter. "Yes, this young gentleman, I see, is in a good deal of trouble and I cannot help him much, so I will go away," and with a wave of his pudgy hand he shut the door behind him and trotted downstairs to his shop.
Maynard with you to-night, Dr. Breen." The sick woman's eyes turned to him imploringly from her pillow, and Grace spoke the terror of both when she faltered in return, "Are you you are not going home?" "I shall sleep in the house." "Oh, thank you!" she cried fervently. "And you can call me if you wish. But there won't be any occasion. Mrs. Maynard is very much better."
He gave a sort of roar of amusement and apology, and then he stared at her again with much of the interest of a naturalist in an extraordinary specimen. "I beg your pardon," he exclaimed. "I did n't look at it"; but he now did so, where he held it crumpled in the palm of his left hand. "My mother said it was a young lady, and I did n't look. Will you will you sit down, Dr. Breen?"
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