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"That's like a man," she responded; "they never see anything till it bumps their noses. They've both called on the Haneys and gone riding with them or with the girl. They've even eaten luncheon there!" "How dreadful! Mrs. Crego, you shock me!" "If any evil comes of this and there will be sorrow in it you'll be morally responsible.
At last, just when the conversation seemed about to flag out, Haney, lifting his head, began in a new tone: "Mr. Fordyce, my little girl and I have decided we want you to take Crego's place as our lawyer. I hope you'll be able to do it." Alice looked up in surprise. "But you don't mean to take it from Mr. Crego?" Haney's face grew hard.
How much Haney's mines were pouring forth he did not know, but their wealth was said to be enormous. Every day added to the potentiality of this gray-eyed girl who stood so trustfully, so like a pupil, before him. He spoke with emotion. "I'll do what I can to advise you and help you, and so will Alice. Allen Crego is a good man he has your legal business, I believe?"
In the afternoon they sometimes went out to the mesas, and it was this almost daily habit of driving and lunching with the Haneys which infuriated Mrs. Gossips were already discussing the outcome of it all. "Just such a situation as that has produced a murderess," said Mrs. Crego to the judge one night.
"What are we to think of a girl so obtuse that she permits a man like this fat, disgusting actor to dangle about her?" asked Mrs. Crego of her husband, who was Haney's legal adviser. "He's her husband's brother, you know," argued Crego. "All the same, I can't understand her.
A fairer world, a perfectly satisfying world, was opening before her in the high country which was her home. This change of legal adviser, while very important to Ben Fordyce and the Haneys, did not seem to trouble Allen Crego very much. As a matter of fact, he was about to run for Congress, and had all the business he could attend to anyway.
Her first impulse was to lay the whole affair before the Captain, but the knowledge of his deadly temper when roused decided her to slip out at the other side of this fearsome thicket and leave the serpent in possession. She longed to return to the West. The little group of people in the Springs allured her; they were to be trusted. Congdon and Crego and Ben these men she knew and respected.
The story was again interrupted by a group of callers, among them Mrs. Crego, and though Alice loyally stood by the Haneys and introduced them boldly, Mrs. Crego's cold nod and something that went out from the eyes of her companions made Bertha suffer, and she went away with a feeling of antagonism in her heart. Did these people consider her beneath their respect?
"There isn't any place that a man of your type can't go if you want to, because you take something with you. You mix. And Haney, for example to return to the concrete again Haney would make a most interesting guest at one's dinner-table, but the wife, clever as she is, is impossible or, at least, Mrs. Crego thinks she is."
I like him immensely too much to think of running such a frightful risk of offending him. If you interfere you do so at your own peril." Lee finally acquiesced in his judgment, and Mrs. Crego went home more deeply troubled than her acquaintance with Alice Heath would seem to warrant.
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