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"Sally's a valuable asset of this family and I'll hold you personally responsible, Comly, for her safe return." At the garage Sally produced a satchel which Archie tossed into the car, and they were quickly humming through the lane and into the highway.
"He said he was staying at Calderville, farther down the road, and pretended to be looking for a quiet hotel to bring his family to. He thought Huddleston might do. He looked me over in a way I didn't like. You remember, Comly, I took you into my confidence about a little difficulty I had before I came here " "That little affair on the Maine coast?
Snatched her away from her mother and carried her out to one of his farms in Ohio. But my wife's a great woman, Comly; one of the dearest, bravest women in the world. She's played a clever trick on the old gentleman and got the child back again and I'm damned glad of it. I got a message that the little girl's up in Michigan, so that's really where I'm headed for.
The whole scene was of exciting interest, and Ridge gazed eagerly upon it as Ensign Comly pointed out its various features, with explanatory remarks. There were several reasons why the Speedy should stop at Key West. One was that she might receive mail and despatches for the blockading fleet.
They danced again, and in the handclapping that followed the first number he turned to find the Governor, calm and with no marks of his escapade upon him, bowing before Miss Seebrook. "Really, I must break in! Just a little fragment of this waltz! More capricious and jazzy measures have their day but the waltz endures forever! Don't frown at me that way, Comly!
The stately old lady they found in the drawing-room lifted a lorgnette as they approached, smiled affably and gave the Governor her hand. "Mrs. Lindsay, my friend, Mr. Comly. He arrived unexpectedly an hour ago and I thought you wouldn't mind my bringing him along, so I didn't bother you by telephoning." "I should have been displeased if you had hesitated a moment any friend of yours, you know!"
"They only went in to find out who was there," began Comly, "the Wilmington, Hudson, and Winslow. The last, being of least draught, ran ahead, and got within range of some hidden batteries before she discovered them. She was turning to go out when they opened fire. In a minute the little ship was riddled by shot and shell.
Oh " she hesitated and turned to the Governor, "is Mr. Comly a roamer? Has he a heart for high adventure?" "He speaks without accent the language of all who love the long brown road." "Then let him come with me!" She laid her hand on Archie's arm, and walked toward the wide-flung doors. The orchestra was again summoning the dancers. "Oh, Isabel!"
"Well, Comly and I have our own small jobs," the Governor protested. "We're interested in some water power schemes through the West and hope to make our expenses." Seebrook and Walters lingered in the office as Archie and the Governor paid their account.
They wrote themselves down on the hotel register at Rochester as Saulsbury and Comly and were quickly in the rooms the Governor had engaged by wire. "We dress, of course; unless I give you explicit directions to the contrary we always dress for dinner," said the Governor. "It's a lot more distinguished to be shot in a white tie than in a morning suit.
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