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Oh, I shaved off the beard and came back to London!" He looked at Chilcote, partly contemptuous, partly amused at his curiosity. But Chilcote sat staring in silence. The domination of the other's personality and the futility of his achievements baffled him. Loder saw his bewilderment. "You wonder what the devil I came into the world for," he said. "I sometimes wonder the same myself."
Chilcote opened his lips, paused, then laughed in imitation of his companion; but the laugh sounded forced. "My dear fellow," he said at last, "I never retract." "Never?" "No." "Then the bargain's sealed." Loder walked slowly across the room, and, taking up his position by the mantel-piece, looked at his companion.
She wanted me to make a fourth in a theatre party at the 'Arcadian' to-night, and I I was so pleased and so relieved that I said yes!" He paused and laughed again unsteadily. In his tense anxiety, Loder ground his heel into the floor. "Go on!" he said, fiercely. "Go on!" "Don't!" Chilcote exclaimed. "I'm going on I'm going on." He passed his handkerchief across his lips.
Chilcote still sat on. At last, feeling numbed, he rose and crossed to the fireplace. The clock on the mantel-piece stared him in the face. He looked at it, started slightly, then drew out his watch. Watch and clock corresponded. Each marked twelve o'clock. With a nervous motion he leaned forward and pressed the electric bell long and hard. Instantly a servant answered. "Is Mr.
You know Blanche Bramfell Viscountess Bramfell, sister to Lillian Astrupp." His words conveyed nothing to Loder, but he did not consider that. All explanations were irksome to him and he invariably chafed to be done with them. "And you've got to put in an appearance for party reasons?" Loder broke in. Chilcote showed relief. "Yes. Old Fraide makes rather a point of it so does Eve."
For a considerable space he stood there as if weighing the merits of each object; then very slowly he moved to one of the book-shelves, drew out May's Parliamentary Practice, and, carrying it to the desk, readjusted the lamp. All the next day Chilcote moved in a fever of excitement.
Your woman friends don't count. While I'm you, you will be adamant." He laughed again pleasantly. "But the men are essential the backbone of the whole business." "I have no men friends. I don't trust the idea of friendship." "Acquaintances, then." Chilcote looked up sharply. "I think we score there," he said. "I have a reputation for absent-mindedness that will carry you anywhere.
Again she smiled the smile that might be malicious or might be merely amused. "Oh," she answered at last, "I only meant that though I had been told Jack Chilcote wanted me, it wasn't Jack Chilcote I expected to see!" After her statement there was a pause. Loder's position was difficult.
I'm going to tax your courage further." With a touch of pained alarm, Eve lifted her head. "Further?" she said. Loder shrank from the expression on her face. "Yes," he said, with difficulty. "There's still another point to be faced. The matter doesn't end with my going back. To have the situation fully saved, Chilcote must return Chilcote must be brought to realize his responsibilities."
Leaning over the bed, he caught the shoulder nearest to him and shook it. It was not the moment for niceties, and his gesture was rough. At his first touch Chilcote made no response his brain, dulled by indulgence in his vice, had become a laggard in conveying sensations; but at last, as the pressure on his shoulder increased, his nervous system seemed suddenly to jar into consciousness.
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