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"I forgot that whole matter long ago," replied Darrin. "Then will you accept my tardy apology, and let us be friends?" urged Brimmer, holding out his hand. It was not Dave Darrin's way to hold a grudge forever. He extended his own hand to take Brimmer's. "And I hope you'll let me know you better," continued Brimmer, turning to Dan Dalzell.
Before Brimmer could utter a word Darrin pounced upon him, seizing him by the collar and fairly dragging him into the alleyway. Then, still gripping his astounded, dismayed foe, Darrin demanded: "Tony, is this the fellow who paid you to drug my friend? "The treacherous Greek has betrayed me!" was the thought that flashed instantly through Brimmer's startled mind.
But Darrin's grip on the fellow's arm tightened so alarmingly that the Greek thrust his left hand down into a trousers pocket, then produced the vial, which Darrin pocketed. "So this is Brimmer's work and Brimmer was at one time Henkel's roommate and crony!" flashed swiftly through Darrin's mind. "Oh, the scoundrel!" "Some one ees coming, sare," warned Tony. "Let me go, sare."
It was the Excelsior party who looked strange and bizarre in these surroundings; to the sensitive fancy of Miss Keene, Mrs. Brimmer's Parisian toilet had an air of provincial assumption; her own pretty Zouave jacket and black silk skirt horrified her with its apparent ostentatious eccentricity; and Mrs.
Brimmer's supplication to be ranged "on her side," and realized with feminine quickness that the situation might be turned to her countrymen's advantage. But which side had Todos Santos favored? It was left to her woman's wit to discover this, and conceive a plan to rescue her helpless companions. Her suspense was quickly relieved. The Commander and his secretary exchanged a few words.
Brimmer's quiet eyes, early alluded to in these pages, did not escape Father Esteban's quick perception at that moment; however, he preferred to leave his companion to follow its aberrations rather than to permit that fair ignis fatuus to light him on his way by it. "But my visit to you, Father Esteban," she began sweetly, "is only postponed."
You've wound up your preparatory course with a worse smash than you had this afternoon. You haven't made good. I'm beginning to doubt if you can make good. You've done worse every year. You're nothing now, and if you keep on like this you'll soon be worse than nothing. You can put down one thing good and solid I won't stand for your going the pace like Chauncey Pike or George Brimmer's son.
The surety of her death would not make him freer than he is now freer to absolutely follow the dictates of a new affection; free to make his own life again. It is a sister, not a wife, he seeks." Mr. Brimmer's forehead slightly contracted. He leaned back a little more rigidly in his chair, and fixed a critical, half supercilious look upon her.
But the most surprising reminiscence developed by the late incident was from Mrs. Brimmer's nurse, Susan. As it, apparently, demonstrated the fact that Mr. Hurlstone not only walked but TALKED in his sleep, it possessed a more mysterious significance.
Nor do I mind admitting to you that Dalzell and I are going to go as far as we can in getting the evidence that; will warrant our making an official report your scoundrelly conduct. If possible we shall bring about your dismissal from the Naval Academy." Brimmer's eyes flashed. Yet in the next minute the yellow streak in him showed.
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