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Couldn't stop for anything Holliday insisted on fighting right along. He couldn't remember it was so long since he had laid a glove on Holliday. And then again a lull. What was it? The end of a round, or the beginning of one? He'd better not sit down, or Devereau and Dunham would tell 'em he was yellow, and they'd believe. End of a round, apparently.
So before the fight Blair had paid him well to throw it. And he had done so. Thus, you see, they learned logically why Devereau had quit Perry. Devereau was square. Sure! This proved it. You said it! They understood perfectly those eloquent shoulder shrugs now. And they raised a righteous clamor. Perry Blair denied the charge, and offered to meet Gay again, anywhere, for any charity.
Perry had found the columns devoted to himself singularly flat and devoid of interest. There was only one item, in fact, which never failed. Only one which he always read, the daily quotation on livestock. But he kept quiet. His eyes alone were attentive. "So you've been reading the papers!" Mincingly Devereau went back and picked it up. "Well-well! Ha-ha!"
Little by little he recognized that this was not acting. This was real. He waited and watched. "So you been followin' the papers, Mr. Blair," chanted Devereau. Having struck this vein of satire and found it rich he followed it up. "Full of lovely reading these days, now aren't they?" That was not so; not as it was meant.
You have heard many men say 'business is business. Maybe you have watched quite a few charming brides walk to the altar, and wondered if that wasn't their sentiment, too." She chose to be suddenly vexed with him. "I do not like such humor, and of course you are joking. I have heard Garrett Devereau talk in just such a strain too often to be amused by it. And if you mean "
He wheeled back to Steve, his manner brisk. "Do we leave that stretch open?" he asked. "Is that the way you have it figured?" "I'm afraid we'd better," Steve said. And from the very deliberation of that reply Garry Devereau realized how vital was the point which they had been weighing so irresponsibly.
He stood watching them when they turned up the driveway, the horse Ragtime muzzling the woolly white sweater and following like a dog. But he wasn't thinking of Miriam Burrell or of Garry Devereau, while he waited for Caleb and Dexter Allison to come up with him.
Morgan and Garrett Devereau, I must ask you to let no business matters interfere with your promptness."
Perry's story of the trouble with Devereau and Dunham he had had in full, and believed. He had wanted to do something and realized that there was not much which he could do. And now this. It was funny but it wasn't so damned funny either. Why, the kid was just well, just a kid. And Felicity had been sweet to him. Very sweet and simple, in spite of his own none too well curbed sarcasm.
Instead it was received oddly with scarcely any comment at all. Even the papers had but little to say, and that little noncommittal. For there were rumors. Devereau and Pig-iron Dunham had done some preliminary work in anticipation of the worst. And after the worst had come to be they went to work in earnest.
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