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He knew that whoever was going to buy those lots was going to buy them because he had to have them because they were essential to some project. And he simply sat tight. "To make the story short how much do you think we paid for them? Ten thousand dollars. Ten thousand dollars cash. And he made us pay the cost of the transfer. You remember that, Elden? We laughed over it at the time.
He turned his swollen, bloody face to Dave's, and hatred stood up in his eyes as he uttered the threat. "I'll hit you, Dave," he repeated, "where you can't hit back." "Thanks for the warning," said Elden. "So Irene Hardy is to be the stake. All right; I'll sit in. And I'll win." "You'll think you've won," returned Conward, leeringly. "And then you'll find out that you didn't.
To Conward the affair could be nothing more than an adventure, but it would give him a position of a sort of semi-paternal authority over both Irene and Elden.
"If you have nothing more to urge against Mr. Elden, perhaps you will go." Forsyth took his hat. At the door he paused and turned, but she was already ostensibly interested in a magazine. He went out into the night. The week was a busy one with Dave, and he had no opportunity to visit the Duncans. Friday Edith called him on the telephone.
"I fear a thought would be a somewhat elusive thing to get a rope on," he ventured. "But if it could be done, Dave would do it," Irene interjected. "You remember " "Dave?" said Mrs. Hardy, sharply. "You mean Mr. Elden." The colour rose in the young woman's cheeks, but she stood by her guns. "He was Dave in those days," she said.
He felt sure she would not be angry, but she would probably think him foolish. And man cannot endure being thought foolish by woman. "Oh, I almost forgot," she said as they parted, as though she really had forgotten. "I was at a reception to-day when a beautiful woman asked for you. Asked me if I had ever heard of Mr. David Elden. "'What, Dave Elden, the millionaire? I said. 'Everybody knows him.
As you say, the principle is the main thing. So we owe all this these empty houses and shops, unsalable property, and everything, to those who have lost faith or never had it. To men like Mr. Elden, for instance. You remember how he tried to discourage me from the very first tried to break down my faith that was it, Mr.
She had felt a peculiar hesitation about enquiring openly for Dave Elden, but, upon meeting a newspaper woman in the person of Miss Morrison she had voiced the great question with an apparent unconcern which did not in the slightest mislead the acute Roberta.
It was apparent that the acquaintanceship of Irene and Dave Elden had not been according to rule. "This is all nonsense," said the doctor, impatiently. "There is nothing to it, anyway. The girl had to have some company. What if they did ride together? What " "They rode together? Alone?" "They had their horses along," said the doctor, whose impatience had made way for sarcasm.
Hardy's tone conveyed very plainly her grievance over the doctor's behaviour in evading the consequences of the situation which his headstrong folly had created. "She is set in her own mind," Conward continued. "We must not openly oppose her. You must appear to be resigned, even to the extent of treating Elden with such consideration as you can.
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