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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Partner!... Oh, Lord!" In the days that followed, Cicily was almost riotously happy. The schemes that had been formulating themselves dimly in her mind following the altruistic suggestion made to her by Mrs. Delancy now took on definite shape and became substantial.
Curtis gurgled: "John D.! . . . Are you John Delancy Curtis? . . . Horace, is this your nephew?" "Judging from his looks, Louisa, he ought to be," said the stout man, gazing at the stranger with wide-eyed astonishment. The Christian names of the couple acted like a galvanic battery on Curtis.
"Just try it!" taunted Hamilton, who, at last, found himself embarked on this mad adventure in chicanery. "I have five millions in negotiable securities," Delancy added. "I'm willing to spend every penny of it in 'busting' you, if you try it." Hamilton now took up the argument, with a spirit that delighted the listening wife.
Delancy let the body fall from his almost paralyzed arms and staggered to a chair, while Emerson sprung forward, catching up the fainting form of his young bride and bearing it to a sofa. "How long has she been in this way?" asked the young man, in a tone of agitation. "She fainted this moment," replied Mr. Delancy. "How long has she been here?" "Not half an hour," was answered; and as Mr.
Unfortunately, the club, too, has nothing to do nothing at all and so, the club, too, is desperately bored.... Oh, if only I could give that club an object a real object!" Mrs. Delancy murmured some remonstrance over the new enthusiasm that sounded in her niece's voice while uttering the aspiration in behalf of the Civitas Society; but the bride paid no heed.
"I beg your pardon for presuming to " he began, and a hot flush mounted to his brow. "You are to come at seven for dinner," she supplemented delightedly. "What a nice place the seventh heaven is!" he cried warmly. "Sh!" she whispered suddenly, and both stopped stock-still. "There is a man with a lantern at the lower gate. See? Over yonder." "They're after me, Mrs. Delancy," he whispered.
"We represent her late husband's interests in settling up the estate of his father. Your wife's interests are being looked after by Morton & Rogers, I believe. I am here to have Mrs. Delancy go through the form of signing papers authorizing us to bring suit against the estate in order to establish certain rights of which you are fully aware.
Rosalie laughed: "This is pleasant information for a rainy day," she said. "Duane, have you heard from Geraldine?" "Yes, to-day," he said innocently; "she is leaving Lenox this morning for Roya-Neh. I hear that there is to be some shooting there Christmas week. Scott writes that the boar and deer are increasing very fast and must be kept down. You and Delancy are on the list, I believe."
He gave such an awful leap for me. How did you do it?" "A simple twist of the wrist, as the prestidigitators say. You had a close call, my dear Mrs. Delancy." He was a-quiver with new sensations that were sending his spirits sky high. After all it was not turning out so badly. "He would have dragged me down had it not been for you.
Half a mile farther on Delancy, labouring along on his snow-shoes, suddenly halted, detaining Geraldine with a quick touch on the shoulder. "There's something in that clearing," he whispered. Miller had seen it, too; Duane motioned Rosalie forward to join Delancy, and, side by side, they crept ahead, keeping a clump of scrub hemlock between them and the edge of the clearing.
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