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I'm glad I found you here I liked what you said about the 'value'." Father Honoré looked mystified for a moment; his brow contracted in the effort to recall at the moment what he had said about "value", and in what connection; but instead of any further question as to Champney's rather incoherent meaning, he handed him the drawing-board. "This is the plan for my shack, Mr. Googe.
Champney's eyes challenged hers, but either she did not understand their message or she was too much in earnest to heed it. "No I wouldn't; what for? I like Rag and he likes me, and we have been faithful to each other; it would be downright hypocrisy on his part to like you after all these years." "How about you?"
She was pleasing herself with the idea of such prospective control of Aileen's matrimonial interests one afternoon, just after Champney's flying visit in July, when she rose from her chair beneath the awning and, to try her strength, made her way slowly along the terrace to the library windows; they were French casements and one of them had swung outwards noiselessly in the breeze.
On the night of Champney's flight he went to Father Honoré and Elmer Wiggins, and confessed his complicity in the affair at the sheepfold. Within ten days, however, the Italian had been exonerated for his attack on the escaped criminal; nor was the slightest blame attached to such action on his part.
"You have good reason to know that you are telling a fact in asserting this?" "Yes, altogether too good a reason." There was a return of bitterness in her answer. Father Honoré was baffled. Aileen spoke without further questioning. Evidently she was desirous of making her position as well as Champney's plain to him and to herself. Her voice grew more gentle as she continued:
It's been my awful pride that kept me from going sooner and oh, Tave, Tave, I tried to make my boy promise never to ask her for money! I've been hoping all along she would offer " "Offer! Almeda Champney offer to help any one with her money that was Louis Champney's!" "But she has enough of her own, Tave; the money that was my boy's grandfather's."
He kept one hand on Champney's as if fearing to lose him, with the other he pulled forward a chair from the wall and placed it near his own; he sat down and drew Champney into the other beside him. "I came up on the afternoon train; I got out yesterday." "It's so unexpected.
You may know, perhaps, that he was instrumental in placing little Aileen Armagh, the orphan child, you know whom I mean? at Mrs. Champney's, your aunt, Mrs. Googe tells me." "I was just going to ask you if you would be willing to tell us something about her," said Mrs. Googe. "I've not seen her, but from all I hear she is a most unusual child, most interesting " "Interesting, mother!"
And there's Octavius Buzzby I don't think he would mind my telling you now indeed, I don't believe he'd have the courage to tell you himself " Father Honoré smiled happily, for he saw in Champney's face the light of awakening interest in the common life of humanity, and he felt a prolongation of this chat would clear the atmosphere of over-powering emotion, "there have never three months passed by these last six years that he hasn't deposited half of his quarterly salary with Emlie in the bank in your name "
Father Honoré looked his surprise; his thoughts leaped to a possible demand on Mrs. Champney's part for his presence at Champ-au-Haut she might have repented her words, changed her mind; might be ready to help her nephew. In that case, he would wait for the midnight train.
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