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Updated: October 16, 2025
He rushed into apology, regret, abuse of his own ignorance, and imbecility, and the Big Doctor, at each pause in the penitence, poured a little oil and wine into the wounds for which Larry and the Carmodys were jointly responsible, and Dick's anger, like the red that had flared to his face, fell like a spent flame.
"Long life to Evans!" thought Christian, seating herself, like the cat, on the edge of the table, and entering upon the cocoa. "Miss Christian!" a raven-croak came through a slit of the pantry-door; "keep off the Carmodys' land! Mind now what I'm tellin' you!" The slit ceased. "Thank you for the cocoa, Evans, but why must I?" called Christian, in a breath.
You, the last of the Carmodys, are Broadway Bill, the sport!" The biting scorn of his father's tone was not lost upon the younger man, who paled to the lips. "Where are the securities you were supposed to have delivered to Strang, Liebhardt & Co.?" "Here, in my desk. I intended to deliver them on my way to the bank this morning.
Beginning with Barty's selling to my tenants, and then your father's people making trouble, and the Carmodys burning the covert, and all the rest of it! They're quite right! It's all my rotten fault! Christian, I'm going back to France! I can't face you after what I've brought on you!"
Wherry swung sturdily on his heel. "But you won for me, Carl," he said quietly. "I'll not forget that." In silence they tramped back through the heavy drifts to the farmhouse and left their snowy coats in the great warm kitchen where the Carmodys old Allan and young Allan, young, shy, pretty Mary and old Mary, the sole winter servants of the Glade were mulling cider over a red-hot stove.
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