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"Take three days to think of it. If you can't raise it, I may suggest a way." The two parted, and Willis Ford was left to many uncomfortable reflections. He knew of no way to raise the money; yet, if he did not do it, he was menaced with exposure and ruin. Would his stepmother come to his assistance? He knew that Mrs. Estabrook had a thousand dollars in government bonds.
When at home in the evening he talked over with Grant, whom he found a sympathetic listener, the traits of the stolen boy, and brought up reminiscences, trifling, perhaps, but touching, under the circumstances. To Mrs. Estabrook he seldom spoke of his son. Her cold and unsympathetic temperament repelled him.
"Six rounds with young Condit, at Estabrook, on the tenth." "Me!" Blue Jeans blurted his surprise, it was so far from the sort of proposition he had been prepared to hear. In spite of his habiliments the Easterner was no new type to him, and he had been ready to dismiss him and his project, whenever it should develop, with a satisfying frankness which could not have been admitted here.
"And now, Doctor," said Estabrook, wheeling toward me, "we must find out if Margaret has sent us word." He plucked my sleeve; he started toward the stairs. He turned his back on the Gardens of Versailles and the vagrant who kneeled beside the cot in the foreground, with his face buried in the red blankets. It was the hoarse call of this ghost of a man that stopped us. "Estabrook!" he said. "Yes."
"Why, I was only going to say that, in case you should succeed, I doubt if you do succeed, but in case you should succeed in causing her to love you, there would be no withdrawal on your part. Little Julie my little daughter! Neither of you has known what it means yet. And, Estabrook, when she does, it must not go wrong. I know her well. She will never love but one man.
He drew from his pocket a long envelope, from which he took four government bonds. "Will you be kind enough, Mrs. Estabrook," said the broker, gravely, "to examine these bonds and determine whether they are yours?" The housekeeper took them mechanically and examined them. "They are mine," she said; "but I cannot believe Willis took them."
"How much?" asked the housekeeper, with interest. "Six thousand five hundred dollars just thirteen times as much!" answered Willis, glibly. This story, by the way, was all a fabrication, intended to influence his stepmother. Mrs. Estabrook never doubted Ford's statement, but her instinctive caution saved her from falling into the trap.
Estabrook?" exclaimed the father, impatiently. "You ought to know my poor boy better than that!" "Boys are a worrisome set," returned the housekeeper, composedly. "Only last week I read in the Herald about two boys who ran away from good homes and went out to kill Indians." "Herbert was not that kind of a boy," said Grant. "He had no fondness for adventure."
"In the street?" "I believe so." "He ought to be in by this time." "Probably he went to walk with some of his companions. As he had no watch, he might not know that it is so late." This seemed very plausible to Mr. Reynolds. "Yes," he said; "Herbert seems lost without Grant. He will be glad to see him back." To this Mrs. Estabrook did not reply.
Estabrook was showing the effect of his nervous strain by driving the machine through it with a recklessness of which I disapproved, not only because we had twice skidded like a curling-stone from one side of the asphalt to the other, but also because I did not wish undue attention attracted to our course.
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