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"And that is the name of Professor Dempsey's sons." Her father shook his head slowly, regretfully. "I am afraid it is as you have feared, dear," he said, "Professor Dempsey has two sons or rather, had and their names were James and Arnold." "Oh, Daddy!" Betty was quiet for a minute, letting the full consciousness of what her father had said sink into her heart.
Exchaning a few words with her, he hurried away. professedly call up, at her cabin window, an old crane who sometimes attended the very poorest women in Nance Dempsey's situation. "Hurry to her, Noreen, acuishla, and do the best it's the will of God to let you do. And tell her from me, Noreen " He stopped, drawing in his lip, and clutching his cudgel hard.
But don't you think," she added, brightening, "that it might be a good idea to wait until we have found out definite facts before we try to solve any more problems?" Rather reluctantly the girls agreed and, after making Betty promise that she would let them know the very first minute she found out the names of Arnold Dempsey's sons, they said good-bye and started for home.
The men fell back with white, scared faces to let her pass. McGaw cowered in his chair. Dempsey's eyes glistened, a half-sigh of relief escaping him. Crimmins had not moved; the apparition stunned him. On she came, her eyes fixed on the president, till she reached the table. Then she steadied herself for a moment, took a roll of papers from her dress, and sank into a chair. No one spoke.
Dempsey's eye brightened. He held up an inspired forefinger as though a brilliant idea had struck him. "I've got it now," he said cordially. "It was just a little mistake. You ain't no O'Sullivan. You are a ring-tailed monkey. Excuse us for not recognising you at first." O'Sullivan's eye flashed. He made a quick movement, but Andy Geoghan was ready and caught his arm.
It was a French colonel that was tellin' me out to the Hispano factory day before yesterday, and he'd oughta know because he was through the battle of the Marne and the Soam, and everything." "Did he tell you in French?" inquired Ensign Peters, meaningly, for Dempsey's French was admittedly limited. "Pardon?" said Dempsey, and then, grasping the innuendo: "No, sir, he did not.
He drew a fold of the blanket up across his face with the gesture of one craving solitude or sleep. "Huh!" quoth Dempsey. "Not what I'd call a talkative guy." This shortcoming could not be laid at his own door. He talked steadily on. After a while, though, a reaction of weariness began to blunt Dempsey's sprightly vivacity.
"I think," suggested Amy practically, "that the best thing would be to try to find out first of all whether these poor boys who were killed are really Professor Dempsey's sons or not." "Humph, that sounds all right," observed Mollie. "But has any one here any suggestion as to just how we will go about it? I'm sure I don't know any one who is acquainted with Professor Dempsey or his family either."
She had paid the most perfunctory attention to the few words Janet had said about Dempsey's call at the farm, two nights before. She understood at the time that he had come to chatter about the murder, and was very glad that she had been out of the way. But now what was it that he had said to Janet and why had Janet said so little about his visit?
And while Betty was still smiling in sympathy with the look of absolute happiness on Professor Dempsey's face, Allen dragged himself away from the group of his admirers and came over to her. Boldly he pulled her hand through his arm and led her past the laughing boys and girls, down the steps, and along the path that led into the woods. "Be back in time for supper," Will called after them.
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