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Dunham's in Wash'n'ton, D. C., the lan' of the home, the free of the brave. What can I do for you?" He made to cross the threshold hospitably, but tripped, plunged forward, and would have rolled down the stairs had not Glenister gathered him up and borne him back into the office, where he tossed him upon a bed in a rear room. "Now what, Miss Chester?" asked the young man, returning.
Had they not gone swimming together before luncheon, and had not Dunham's athletic feats and man-to-man treatment of the island boy completely subjugated him? The tin pails they had carried were now in the locker, brimming with berries.
Perhaps we hadn't better begin this evening." Staniford laughed at Dunham's embarrassment. "You might have a sacred concert, and Mr. Hicks could represent the shawms and cymbals with his flute." Dunham looked sorry for Staniford's saying this.
Fooled him badly just when he had begun to speculate a little concerning her soul himself. Perry believed her. But then it is easy for any woman to fool any man. Twice as easy when he wants so badly to be fooled. Perry cursed his lack of ready money. And then Dunham sent for him. And he went, hiding his eagerness. They held the conversation in Dunham's book-lined office.
At tea, when Lydia had gone away, he clapped down a sovereign near Dunham's plate. "Your five dollars," he said. "Why, how " Dunham began. "How did I get on without it? My dear boy, I sold my watch! A ship's time is worth no more than a setting hen's, eh, captain? and why take note of it? Besides, I always like to pay my debts promptly: there's nothing mean about me.
I should like mightily to know how the world strikes her, as far as she's gone. But I doubt if she's one to betray her own counsel in any way. She looks deep, Lurella does." Staniford laughed again at the pain which his insistence upon the name brought into Dunham's face.
If those who would have been creditable would none of her, she certainly would none of this countrified individual and his claim of cousinship. "Good-afternoon," she began coldly. "You say you have brought me some explanation of Mr. Dunham's telegram?" "Why, why," said the stranger, gazing at her musingly as he slowly rose from his chair; "is it possible that you are Laura's little girl?"
Upon Dunham's acquiescence she continued: "Perhaps, being in the office, you know about my windfall?" "I hadn't heard, but I'm glad there was a windfall." Miss Martha scrutinized the speaker's countenance approvingly. "He's about as pleasant-looking a man as I ever laid eyes on," she thought.
"Of course," said the consul, "I could marry you and it would be legal if you chose to count it so at home, but if you are thinking of taking a house here and of making an extended residence I shouldn't advise it. As to Captain Dunham's suggestion, it's not wholly a bad one.
Then the minister's wife, who knew and prized Tryon Dunham's friendship, said to herself: "It's all right. She loves him." When the solemn words were spoken that bound them together through life, and they had thanked their kind friends and were once more out in the carriage, Tryon said: "Do you know you haven't told me your real name yet?"
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