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But he grasped Barker's hand before parting in quite his old fashion, and said, "Come to lunch with me at the bank any day, and we'll talk of Phil Demorest," and left Barker as happy as if the appointment were to confer the favor he had that morning refused. But Mrs. Barker, who had overheard, was more dubious.
I can't imagine that any act of yours could very deeply offend anybody, even your wife. However " He studied briefly. "Have you been to see Miss Demorest?" "Sure! Adoree hasn't seen her." "Possibly!" Pope eyed his caller speculatively. "So you decided to jimmy her into society, eh! Who was at the party? Oh, Lord!" he exclaimed, as Bob muttered over the list of names.
That's what got me started, in the first place I saw a great opportunity to make money; so I found a farm on a lake, bought it, and went to raising ducks." "Ducks!" breathlessly exclaimed Miss Demorest; but her interruption went unnoticed. Campbell Pope's features shone with the gentle light of a pleasurable remembrance. "It was lovely and quiet out there, just like Saskatchewan or the Soudan.
"There are usually servants about the place," said Demorest, carelessly. "Ef they're the same breed ez that Manuel, I reckon I'd almost as leave take my chances in the road. Ef it's all the same to you I kalkilate to put a paytent fastener to my door and winder to-night. I allus travel with them."
For an instant she hesitated before the public parlor, and glanced dubiously along the half-lit corridor. Chance befriended her; the door of a bedroom opened at that moment, and Richard Demorest, with his overcoat and hat on, stepped out in the hall. With a quick and nervous gesture of her hand she beckoned him to approach.
Yet, in spite of the fact that he was tired, cold, and anxious to see his wife, he was conscious of a secret satisfaction in submitting to the caprices of this old friend of his boyhood. After all, Dick Demorest knew what he was about, and had never led him astray by his autocratic will. It was safe to let Dick have his way.
But Demorest here rose lazily, and, throwing a gigantic shadow on the wall, stood between the two with his back to the fire. "He means," he said slowly, "that you're talking rot, and so is he. However, as yours comes from the heart and his from the head, I prefer yours. But you're both making me tired. Let's have a fresh deal." Nobody ever dreamed of contradicting Demorest.
"As happy as a man can be who has his child here with a nurse while his wife is gallivanting in San Francisco, and throwing her money and Lord knows what else away at the bidding of a smooth-tongued, shady operator." "Does HE complain of it?" asked Demorest. "Not he; the fool trusts her!" said Stacy curtly. Demorest laughed. "That is happiness! Come, Jim! don't let us begrudge him that.
Darned if you don't look like the profile stamped on a Continental penny! But here's luck and a welcome back, old man!" Demorest passed his arm around the neck of his seated partner, and grasping his upraised hand said, looking down with a smile, "And now about Barker." "Oh, Parker, d n him! He's the same unshakable, unchangeable, ungrow-upable Barker! With the devil's own luck, too!
"You're not going to leave me out." "You've done quite enough for us, old man," said Stacy, laying his hand on Barker's shoulder. "And it may be for US to do something for YOU. Trot off to bed now, like a good boy. I'll keep you posted when the time comes." Shoving the protesting and leave-taking Barker with paternal familiarity from the room, he closed the door and faced Demorest.
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