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Now run away, little boy, and leave the whole business to me." As Crego had said, the Congdons were privileged characters in the Springs. They were at once haughty with the pride of esthetic cleverness, and humble with the sense of their unworthiness in the wide old-world of art.
She perceived that the people round her were of intellectual companionship to the Crego and Congdon circles, and these young men, so easy and graceful of manner, reminded her of Ben. None of them were entirely strange to her now, and yet she dimly apprehended something uncomplimentary veiled beneath their polite regard. She did not entirely trust any of them not even her host.
It meant a couple of thousand dollars to Frank, but money was the least of their troubles credit seemed to come along when they needed it most, and each of them had become "trustful to the point of idiocy," Mrs. Crego was accustomed to say. Mrs. Crego really took charge of their affairs, and when they needed food helped them to it.
The doctors are tryin' hard to take the kinks out o' me, but 'tis impossible I see that but I may live on for a long time. Already me mind misgives me about Bertie she's too young to be tied up to a shoulder-shotten old plug like mesilf." To this Crego soothingly responded. "I don't think you need to worry. She's as happy as a blackbird in spring."
Crego is saying, 'I dunno them Haneys is queer cattle. And the little sick lady, sure she was as interested in me talk as Patsy McGonnigle. She drug out o' me some of me wildest scrapes. Poor little girl, 'twill soon be all up with her.... It's a fine young fellow she has. A Quaker by training, she says. My! my! What a prizefighter he'd make if his mind ran that way!
Crego, who still breathed, so it seemed to Bertha, a certain contempt and inner repugnance. Young Fordyce glowed with delight in these tales, reading beneath the terse lines of Haney's slang something epic, detecting a perfect willingness to take any chance.
She vaguely comprehended that this little party was of a tone and quality of the best the world over that it was of a part and interfused with the dining customs of London and Paris and New York. "It will be au fait," Miss Franklin had said, sententiously, "for Alice Heath knows." Mrs. Crego, who sat nearly opposite, stared at the girl in stupefaction.
She couldn't have told why, but this subject troubled her and confused her. She turned away again as he continued: "Alice has a little, not much, in her own right, and so it is really up to me to settle down and get to work. Please don't think you are taking the time of a rich and busy man like Crego. I am very grateful to you. It will enable us to plan a home here in the West."
But I fear you mean by that that I take life very easily." She grew serious again. "No, I don't. Anybody can see you're honest. I trust you more than I do Judge Crego, and so does the Captain. You can tell us things we want to know. We both know a little about business, but we don't know much about other things. That's where we both fall down."
Crego and her set are too stuck up to associate with common folks," was the form in which the revelation came to her.
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