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The friendly candor of her eyes was replaced by a look that was coldly speculative, and her lips that had smiled so readily now expressed determination. Her whole bearing was indicative of concentration, singleness of purpose and patience or, more strictly, a dogged endurance. These things Disston saw in his swift scrutiny before she recognized him.
With a cry that has no counterpart save as it comes straight from a woman's heart, Kate had sprung to her feet and gone to Disston with her hands outstretched. "Hughie! Hughie! You've come back. Speak say something so I'll know that I'm awake." The Boosters' Club and its guests did not exist for Kate. "Katie Katie Prentice, is this wonderful girl you?"
It was all a mystery, and, thoroughly discouraged, she was about convinced that they were wasting precious time and ruining their complexions. Disston continued to polish vigorously, using the gun grease and cleaner until the barrels through which he squinted were spotless and shining.
Rathburn was thrusting her needle back and forth through the taut linen inside the embroidery hoop with a vigor which amounted to viciousness; that Miss Rathburn drew the buffer so briskly across her nails that the encircling flesh was all but blistered with the friction; and that Disston as he oiled and rubbed let his gaze wander frequently to the distant mountains and rest there wistfully.
Kate's pride had come to be her strongest ally and she summoned it all in this emergency, so when Disston climbed to her, finally, leading his limping horse, she was awaiting him calmly, her enigmatic smile upon her face, which was but a shade paler than usual.
Yet, somehow, the boy managed to say with his manner of deferential courtesy: "Mrs. Pantin, do you know Miss Prentice?" Ordinarily, a part of Mrs. Pantin's society manner was a vivacious chirp, but now she said coldly between her teeth: "I haven't that pleasure." She gave Kate her extreme finger tips with such obvious reluctance that the action was an affront. Disston glanced at Mrs.
"Not a great many. Sam Disston was here to-day; he's one of the old stand-bys, and he doesn't look a day older now. These red whiskered men have the advantage of such fellows as you and I. I've grown gray in spots, but here's Sam still as red as when he first came out snapping a Disston saw. I'd like to have Sam to myself some Sunday afternoon and get him to tell the ups and downs of his goods.
There isn't a flaw in it!" said Toomey confidentially. "Glad to hear it, Jap," Disston replied cordially, and presented him to Mrs. Rathburn and her daughter. The mother was a small woman of much distinction of appearance.
To Beth Rathburn, it was ridiculous that Disston should take seriously this girl who, at the moment, was considerably less presentable than any one of their own servants that he should treat her with all the deference he showed to any woman of his acquaintance, as if she were of his own class exactly! And a worse offense was his obviously keen interest in her.
The fact that Disston did not even hear added to her exasperation. The soft voice, which was one of her many charms, was distinctly shrill as she reiterated: "I say, will this everlasting wind never stop blowing?" "It is disagreeable," he murmured, without looking at her. "Disagreeable? It's horrible! I detest the country and everybody in it!" Mrs.
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