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Ewen Hooper, the holder of a recently founded classical readership, had once possessed a younger sister of considerable beauty, who, in the course of an independent and adventurous career, had captured by no ignoble arts a widower, who happened to be also an earl and a rich man.
Ewen Hooper was left staring at the letter from his bankers, and trying to collect his thoughts. Connie's voice was still in his ears. It had all the sweetness of his dead sister's. Connie was reading in her room before dinner. She had shut herself up there, feeling rather battered by the emotions of the afternoon, when she heard a knock that she knew was Nora's. "Come in!" Nora appeared.
They ought to be there to-morrow some time." This statement allayed the suspicion directed against the dissolute Englishman and the young men made an early return to the camp. "I'm glad I didn't say anything to Ewen and Miller," commented Colonel Howell, when he learned that Chandler had gone still further into the woods. "Now we'll get to work on our prospecting in earnest."
She was just thinking anxiously that she had forgotten to take her tabloids after lunch, because Ewen had hustled her off so much too soon to the station. "I don't think we know him," she said vaguely, turning towards Alice. "We know all about him. He was introduced to me once." The tone of the eldest Miss Hooper could scarcely have been colder.
The other men are Malcolm Ewen and Donald Miller. Ewen and Miller are good boys, and I know they'll give me a square deal, whether Chandler sticks or not." In spite of the general conversation, Norman fancied that Mr. Zept's annoyance did not grow less, and it was not hard to conclude that this was due to Paul's absence. Finally both Norman and Roy excused themselves to visit the observation car.
Then the man with the boat-hook his name was Ewan, or Ewen sprang up with a curse and began striking downward over the side, as far as he could reach, at the bank of tentacles that now clustered along the boat's bottom. And, at the same time, the two rowers stood up to get a better purchase for the recovery of their oars. The boatman handed his to Mr.
But it was hoped that the work might be done so quickly that this would not result. When Ewen had laid out his apparatus about the mouth of the tube with all the care of a surgeon preparing for a hasty operation, and Paul and Colonel Howell had taken their position on the scaffold far below, Ewen suddenly shouted: "Ready!" A heavy blow resounded in the narrow pit.
Pryce, who was a fellow of his own college, was laying siege to the newcomer. Pryce was rapidly making a great name for himself as a mathematician. "And is a second-rate fellow, all the same," thought the Master, contemptuously, being like Uncle Ewen a classic of the classics.
Motionless, the little group hung hard upon the story-teller, when the door opened quickly, a red head appeared, a rasping voice broke in: "Your class report, Mr. Dunbar, please. We're waiting for it." A sigh of disappointment and regret swept the room. "Oh, darn the little woodpecker!" said Ewen from the outside, in a disgusted tone. "That's the way with Hayes.
Everything to do with money matters had been practically settled between her and Sorell and Uncle Ewen; and settled in Connie's way, expressed no doubt in business form. And now she was insisting firmly on the holiday visit to Rome, in spite of many protests from Uncle Ewen and Nora. It was a promise, she declared. Rome Rome was their fate.
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