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As a social democrat, I may wish sincerely to do them good, but, confound it, to wish to do them good is an impertinence. And when I've tried to bring these elements together in my house I have always failed. Mrs. Crego, while being most gracious and cordial, has, nevertheless, managed to make the upholsterer chilly, and to freeze the grocer's wife entirely out of the picture."
A third of the old farm is mine, and that will pay my board while I study." Neither Haney nor his young wife was surprised by this movement on his part any more than he was surprised at their rise to wealth and luxury; both were in accordance with the American tradition. Mrs. Crego, driving down-town with Mrs. Congdon, stared in astonishment, then turned to Lee.
"But that would mean making our permanent home here, and setting up an office." "Well, why not? I can't live in the East any more; that we have tested. I am willing to decide now. It would give you a start here, and, besides, I think you can be of use to the Captain." Ben still hesitated. "It seems rather treacherous to Crego some way. But if you have definitely decided against him "
I hope she never will. Her barber friend is on the same level with the clerks and grocery-men of the town. They're all human, you know. She's the true democrat. I confess I like the girl. Her ability is astonishing. Williams and Haney both take her opinion quite as weightily as my own." Mrs. Crego was impressed. "Well, I'll call on her if you really think I ought to do so." "I don't.
Haney and Williams were both down street discussing some business matter with Crego, and this left her hours the more empty and unsatisfactory. As the dinner-hour drew near she drove to fetch her husband, hoping for a glimpse of the Fordyces on the way, but even this comfort was denied her, and she ached with dull pain which she could not analyze.
Crego had listened with a show of interest. It was as if a lonely old man had at last found companionship. What did all this mean? "Are they interested in him only because he's what they call a desperado? Did they ask us there to hear him tell stories of his wild life?" Questions of this kind also troubled her.
Bertha cried out: "No, don't do that." He acquiesced. "Very well, then I won't tell him why; but I'm going to quit him! So if you don't care to take on me business, I'll give it to Jim Beringer. It pays a good bit of money, and will pay more. I'll make it profitable to ye." Alice looked at Ben. "Of course, if he is going to leave Mr. Crego anyway "
"'Well, I'm glad o' that, because, since you ask me, as a professing Christian, I cudn' say any less. But you musn' think we bear any gridge. "'I'm sure I wonder you don't. And the police still have no clue? "'The police? You mean Sammy Crego, the constable? Why, I've knawed en from a boy pretty thing if any person in Polreen listened to he!
"Yes, I think he's square, and I like him. But I can't go to Mrs. Crego; she despises us that's one good reason." She smiled faintly. "But it ain't legal advice I want it's something else. I don't know what it is. Our minister isn't the man, either. I guess I want somebody that knows life, and that ain't either a lawyer or a minister. I want some one to take our affairs in hand.
"I am under no obligation to Crego, and I prefer to have as me lawyer a man who can neighbor with me, and whose wife is not above nodding when me own wife passes by." Alice hastened to defend the Cregos. "You mustn't be unjust to Mrs. Crego." "I'm not," said Haney, "nor to Crego either. I've paid for his time, and paid well as I'm willing to pay for yours." He turned to Ben.
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