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Instead the strings had wrenched the corners from the age-worn covering, thereby arousing Mrs. Eldridge's ire.
In the wireless office of the Atlas Building Percy Darrow laughed. The absolute failure of Eldridge's hypothesis immediately threw public confidence into a profound reaction. Certainty gave place to complete distrust. Rumor gained ground. The exodus increased.
The study itself was no mere lounging place of a man of pleasure, but sober and formidable books were scattered through the cases: "Turner's Evolution of the Railroad," "Graham's Practical Forestry," "Eldridge's Finance"; while whole shelves of modern husbandry proclaimed that Mr. Humphrey Crewe was no amateur farmer.
I called at Miss Eldridge's, thinking to find you returned, and then, when she said you were still absent, I hurried down here, feeling unaccountably disquieted. It was absurd, of course. But were you not detained longer than you anticipated?" "No, it wasn't absurd," she said, clasping her other hand over his arm and giving it a little squeeze.
To all questions, however, Darrow returned but the one reply, delivered always in a voice full of raillery: "I couldn't bear to miss a single step of Eldridge's masterly work." About half past nine of the morning in question, through the door to the wireless office, always half opened, somebody looked hesitatingly into the room. Instantly Darrow and Jack were on their feet and in the hallway.
"May I spend to-morrow, all day, with Esther?" asked Faith, as her mother went up-stairs with her, and feeling her face flush with the consciousness of not telling her mother all the truth. "Your very first day at home, dear child! Why, I should be running over to Mrs. Eldridge's every hour to make sure that you were really within reach," responded her mother.
"How do you think Eldridge's affairs will turn out?" asked the young man. "Worse than nothing, I suppose. I understand that he paid Dalton some eighteen thousand dollars for his half of the business. There was but ten thousand dollars capital at first; and, from the way things were conducted, instead of its increasing, it must have diminished yearly." Here was an entirely new aspect in the case.
Her pretty face was pale, and her soft yellow hair was pushed back from her forehead, showing the blue veins in her temples. "I don't know what I shall do," she said, in a troubled voice. "Those children have caught up with me in arithmetic, and by next week they'll be ahead of me; and I feel as if I oughtn't to take Miss Eldridge's money if I can't do all she engaged me for.
Faith noticed that she was very thin, and that her hands looked almost like little brown shadows. "Are you tired?" she asked, suddenly remembering that she had heard her father say that "Mr. Eldridge's little maid was not well, and he thought the change would do her good." Esther nodded. "Yes, I'm always tired," she answered, sitting down in the low wooden rocker beside the light stand.
I've told you before, how, when I was in jail, I worked out their nature and the fact that they must draw their power from some source that could be exhausted or emptied. You have read Eldridge's reasoning as to why he thought Monsieur X was at a distance and on a height.
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