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"I hope you are not going to shield that young thief, Mr. Reynolds," said the housekeeper. "His guilt is as clear as noonday. I think he ought to be arrested." "You are rather in a hurry, Mrs. Estabrook," said Mr. Reynolds; "and I must request you to be careful how you make charges against me." "Against you?" asked the housekeeper, alarmed at his tone. "Yes," answered the broker, sternly.
After a while Grant learned the particulars about Herbert's disappearance. He had gone out to play in the street about three o'clock in the afternoon. Generally he waited for Grant to return-home, but during his absence he had found other companions. When his father returned home, he inquired of the housekeeper: "Where is Herbert?" "He went out to play," said Mrs. Estabrook, indifferently.
I myself drew no breath, but watched the half-bald head of the criminal shake sadly. Then suddenly he looked up. With one claw-like finger, he pointed at Estabrook. Hate and distrust were in his eyes. "You know!" he piped in a thin but terrible voice. There was no doubting the sincerity of his accusation. "I know?" cried Estabrook, falling back. "I know?"
As to the clothes, I consider them of very small account, compared with my boy's health." Mrs. Estabrook knitted in silence for five minutes. She was by no means pleased with her employer's plan, having taken a dislike to Grant, for which, indeed, her chief reason was jealousy. She had a stepson, a young man of twenty-one, in Mr.
As if to affirm these characteristics he spoke to me the moment I had entered, in a voice which seemed to be adapted to a general address to the three or four other bachelors who were waiting in the frescoed vestibule for a conveyance. "Yaas, sah, Mr. Estabrook, sah. De dohman lef' a message, sah. Der has been a lady waitin' foh you, sah, mos' all de ahfternoon.
Estabrook who is as insane as I. That is, he devotes no end of time and energy and seriousness to the game of chess. We have never yet met each other on the field of battle. Some afternoon, here in this room, however " She did not allow him to finish; she said hastily that she must witness the contest. "Then at my home," he said, beaming at me. "To-morrow will you come to dinner?"
I have fought many battles to bring myself to tell you that you may read what is there." I reached for the package. "Wait," said he. "The contents of this document need never be given to her if she becomes your wife. Nor is it necessary for you to read what is there set forth if you only will choose not to do so. These are strange words between men in these modern times, Estabrook.
"You are entirely mistaken, Mrs. Estabrook," said Grant, indignantly. "Of course you say so!" retorted the housekeeper; "but it stands to reason that that is the way it happened. You took them and gave them to this man that is, if there is such a man." "Your son says there is, Mrs. Estabrook," said the broker, quietly. "Well, I don't intend to say how it happened.
There's nothing like it nothing in all the world like ready cash to make a female frivolous!" He turned her across the tracks. "We'll not linger long in Reservoir," he spoke again aloud, and the mare threw back one ear to listen. "Just long enough to eat and sleep, and then we'll start overland to Estabrook. That's sensible! That's better than squandering money on a railroad ticket."
I asked in a trembling voice. "Nothing," the Judge said. "It is not in God's character to allow such a thing. When you love her, Estabrook, my boy, you will not ask me that question in answer to mine." "No," I said at once. "There need be no doubts between us, sir. It is not necessary for either of us to answer." His whole countenance lit up as if my words had fed his soul.
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