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"You doubt my word," his voice grew stern and hard as he read the incredulity in Curlie's eyes. "Young man," he fairly thundered, "fix this in your mind: No man ever has risen or ever will rise to my present position through treachery or deceit. When I say a thing is so, by thunder it is so!" He struck his desk a terrific blow. "But a " Curlie caught himself just in time.
"She's a most determined and composed little piece of humanity," was Curlie's mental comment. "I don't like her following me, but since she's here I suppose I better make the best of it!" Had he known how far she would follow him and what adventures she was destined to share with him, he might have been tempted to wire her father to call her back.
Just when Curlie's patience with himself and all the rest of the world was exhausted, Joe Marion opened the door. The wind, boosting him across the threshold, slammed the door after him. "Whew!" he sputtered. "Going to be rotten. Tell you what, I don't like it. Dangerous, I'd say!" "Nothing's dangerous," smiled Curlie, greatly pleased to see that someone at least was more disturbed than himself.
Wrapped as she was, and carefully guarded from the on-rush of the waves, she escaped all the miserable damp and chill of it. "Shows you're a real sport," Curlie's lips, blue with cold, attempted a smile, "but you've got to let us play the gentleman, even out here." When the waves had receded somewhat, Curlie began digging at one of the tubes beneath his feet.
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