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He could hardly believe that this was the girl he had once seen in Evans's shop when he was buying flowers for Anne. The girl in Evans's shop was only a pretty girl. Maggie was neither inhumanly tall, nor inhumanly slender; she was simply and supremely feminine. She was dressed delicately in black, a choice which made brilliant the beauty of her colouring.
"Shure an' I did not," she exclaimed, her eyes ablaze with interest neither had Caleb, for that matter; but he wanted to start the subject "An" who was it was robbed?" "Don't know, unless it was John Evans's place." "Shure an' I don't know him, but I warrant he could sthand to lose.
To-morrow, if my case is ready, I send a memorial to the Home-Office, accuse Hawes of felonious practices, and demand an inquiry." Evans's eye sparkled; he began to gather strength from the broken man. "But now comes the difficulty. A man should never strike a feeble blow. My appeal will be read by half-educated clerks.
"Mother," began Nettie, "you know I am to have the club meeting after a while, and it is to be at the general club-room at Miss Agnes Evans's house, and you know we always have refreshments," Nettie spoke as if she had already attended every meeting, when that of the afternoon before had been her very first. "Yes, I remember you told me, dear," said her mother.
He withdrew his insurance advertisement from McSorley's paper, and doubled his space in Evans's, paying in advance. He watched the trains for visitors and reported them to Evans. He wrote breezy little local briefs in his own light cow-like way for Evans's paper. But Mr. Ducker's journalistic fervour received a serious set back one day.
"You men must go right ahead and talk as if I weren't here. I won't interrupt, except with a few vivas or carambas or What are some other lady-like Spanish exclamations?" "There aren't very many," Johnnie acknowledged. "I always try to swear in English." Alvarado placed an affectionate hand upon Miss Evans's shoulder. "O'Reilly, this girl has done more for Cuba than any of us.
"She'll go like a bird, now. When did you get back?" "Your father drove me home, like the angel he is. You came with Nina?" "Nina and Blondin. Then I drove him on to the Evans's. But she began to act queer on the way home," said Ward, fondly, of the car. "Say get in and try her, will you?" he asked, eagerly. "If you could wipe your face " Harriet murmured, offering a handkerchief.
By the light of day Miss Evans's project seemed more hare-brained than ever, and he suspected that Enriquez had acquiesced in it only because of a natural inability to refuse anything to a pretty woman that was typically Cuban.
Mrs. Bates telephoned to the Evans's house in town, but there was nobody home. She tried the house where Nyoda lived, but got no satisfaction, for the landlady merely said that Miss Kent had not been home since leaving for school in the morning. The evening passed off as merrily as possible and the girls rose the next morning feeling sure that Nyoda and Gladys would be out on the first car.
But his respect for Miss Evans's energy and initiative deepened when, on arriving at 56 New Street, he discovered that she had forestalled him and was even then closeted with the man he had come to see. Johnnie waited uneasily; he was dismayed when the girl finally appeared, with Enriquez in tow, for the man's face was radiant. "It's all settled," she announced, at sight of O'Reilly.
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