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"Where, then, did you get the bonds?" "I got them both from Prince Duncan, president of the bank." Both partners looked surprised. One of them went to the door of the office, and called in Mr. Armstrong, who, as well as a policeman, had been sent for. Tony Denton's statement was repeated to him. "I am not surprised," he said. "I expected it."
So it's only a matter of what date the fellow selects for leaving here." And truly that was the view that seemed to be pressing more and more tightly upon Dick Prescott. The pressure was becoming more than he could bear. He had followed Lieutenant Denton's advice, and had put up a good and a brave fight.
Why, you're not one, two, three in Jim Denton's good graces!" "Off with the old and on with the new! There's no one proves the truth of that proverb oftener than a certain young man I could mention! However, Maggie, don't throw up the sponge! You've got the first claim on Jim Denton why don't you let him know it?" Faith listened to these words in utter amazement.
Joan could see her bus in the distance. She stooped and kissed the little withered face. "Don't stop," she whispered. Mary gave her a hug, and almost ran away. Joan watched the little child- like figure growing smaller. It glided in and out among the people. In the spring, Joan, at Mrs. Denton's request, undertook a mission. It was to go to Paris. Mrs.
Now was the crisis, and all the little nerves of Denton's being seemed leaping and dancing. He had decided to show fight if any fresh indignity was offered him. He stopped his press and turned.
And others, particularly business people, use it merely as a trade-mark or sign of respectability, and then laugh in their sleeves at the number of dupes they make with it!" "Well, there's no sham or hypocrisy in Mr. Denton's dealings," cried Faith, brightly, "for no man could enter upon a Christian course with greater sacrifice, both of friends and money."
Blunt's bashfulness fell from him as the instruction proceeded, and he developed a certain expert dignity, a quality of fatherly consideration. He treated Denton with the utmost consideration, only "flicking him up a bit" now and then, to keep the interest hot, and roaring with laughter at a happy fluke of Denton's that covered his mouth with blood.
She let her evening-cloak slide to a chair, turning to glance at a calling card on the table, with a renewal of the old, callous, cynical air. The practical force of Flip Denton's conversation was making itself felt. Of course it was an absurdity for her to imagine herself in love with a youth of twenty-four almost the dullest of all ages be he never so good to look at.
Inside my circle I could see the sand quite plainly and Denton's footprints. If I moved a little to the left, the wash of the waters would lap under the edge of that grey curtain. If I moved to the right, I came to cliffs. The nearer I drew to them, the farther up I could see, but I could never see to the top. It used to amuse me to move this area of consciousness about to see what I could find.
"Perhaps it was only on my side of the house, but there was enough to sway my curtains and rustle them more than I wanted." That night a bachelor friend of James Denton's came to stay, and was lodged in a room on the same floor as his host, but at the end of a long passage, halfway down which was a red baize door, put there to cut off the draught and intercept noise.
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