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Ford myself, for example?" "Of course that is different, Mr. Reynolds." "Well, I don't know. I am honest, and so, I believe, is Grant." "Thank you, sir," said Grant, gratefully. "It just occurred to me," said Ford, "to ask my mother if she has at any time lost or mislaid her keys." "Well thought of, Mr. Ford," and Mr. Reynolds turned to his housekeeper for a reply. "No," answered Mrs. Estabrook.
Let me request, Mrs. Estabrook, that you discontinue referring to him in offensive terms, or I may withdraw my offer guaranteeing you from loss. Grant, if you will accompany me, I have some questions to put to you." Grant and his employer left the room together. "He won't let the boy be punished, though he must know he's guilty," said Mrs. Estabrook, spitefully.
For the first time, I think, in all my life, which, by training and inherited instincts, had been devoted, I might say, to the welfare of the Estabrook name and of myself, I felt my mind and even my body filled with a strange and passionate desire to be the instrument of good, not for myself, but in the name of others and perhaps in the name of God.
"I never liked playing ball before, papa." "That is a compliment to you, Grant," said the broker, smiling. "I think," he said to the prim, elderly lady who presided over the household, acting as housekeeper, "Herbert will be the better for having a boy in the house." "I don't know about that," said Mrs. Estabrook, stiffly. "When he came into the house he had mud on his clothes.
Estabrook was filling with its usual week-end scum; crafty faces, hard faces, faces shallowly good-natured, and therefore doubly treacherous. Even the pimply clerk at the desk, discerning her unescorted state, had changed subtly in voice and manner. "Alone?" "Yes, alone." "Lonesome?" She had not answered him.
He threw up his hands and sprang out of his chair again. "I beg your pardon," he answered with a look of chagrin. "I've been under a strain, I suppose, and I forgot that you have nothing at stake." "Not so fast, Estabrook," I said. "Take another nip of the brandy. I prescribe it for you. And not so fast. I have a good deal at stake." "What?" "My case," I said. He looked at me with admiration.
When Margaret Murchie, sitting in the interior of the limousine, with the arc light playing through the thousand raindrops on the window pane spotting a face lined with the strength of a stolid old maid, had finished her narrative, there was no sound but that of the storm mourning down the avenue. Estabrook sat with his forehead in his hands.
When, however, an hour two hours passed, and the little boy still remained absent, the father's anxiety became insupportable. He merely tasted a few spoonfuls of soup, and found it impossible to eat more. The housekeeper, on the contrary, seemed quite unconcerned, and showed her usual appetite. "I am seriously anxious, Mrs. Estabrook," said the broker.
"It will be good for you, and for you, Margaret, too!" "Oh, Mr. Estabrook!" she exclaimed when she had swallowed the stimulant, "I lied to you. I once lied to you very sore, as you shall see." "Enough enough!" he cried. "What of her my wife? She is still alive?" "Have no fear," replied the old woman. "It's not death that's with us, I'm believing." The poor fellow wrung his hands.
"Somebody I don't know, Doctor. Margaret Somebody. She left a message. She wouldn't say no more than just one word." "What was that word?" cried Estabrook at my shoulder. "Danger." I suppose that both of us felt the shock and then the tingle of excitement in the meaning of that phrase, interpreted in the light of our understanding. "Doctor!" the young man shouted.
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