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"Is Burke in the outer office? Send him in." Adelaide's heart began to beat as Marty, in his working-clothes, entered. He was more suppressed and more sulky than she had yet seen him. "I've been trying to see you, Mr. Farron," he began; but Vincent cut in: "One moment, Burke. I have something to say to you. That bout you said you had with O'Hallohan "
Wayne under his lowering brows; he had stopped swinging his elbows, and was now very slightly twitching his cane, as an evilly disposed cat will twitch the end of its tail. Mrs. Farron watched him almost breathlessly. She was a little frightened, but the sensation was pleasurable. He was, she knew, the finest specimen of the human animal that she had ever seen.
Farron's illness, and she is always there, so brave, so attentive. A queenly woman, and," he added, as if the two did not always go together, "a good wife." Wayne could think of no answer to this eulogy, and as they stood in silence the office door opened and Mr. Lanley came in. He nodded to each of the two, and moved to Vincent's room. "Mr. Farron has just gone," said Chandler, firmly.
"Ah, you've been rather out of it lately, sir," said Wayne. "You haven't followed, perhaps, all that's been going on." "Perhaps not." Wayne felt he must be candid. "If it is your idea that your wife's opposition could be changed, I'm afraid I must tell you, Mr. Farron " He paused, meeting a quick, sudden look; then Farron turned his head, and stared, with folded arms, out of the window.
"The greatest, I should think," said Adelaide, and just hinted that she might go back to her book at any instant. "But don't you think " Mathilde began again, when Farron interrupted her almost sharply. "Mathilde," he said, "there's a well-known business axiom, not to try to get things on paper too early."
Lanley nodded; then, as it were, withdrew the nod on remembering that poor Joe had not wanted to stand any nonsense either. What in similar circumstances could Farron do? Adelaide always resented his asking how things were going, but how could he help being anxious? How could any one rest content on a hillside who had once been blown up by a volcano?
Argenter; he had obtained a hold upon him in some other business that had come to his knowledge in the course of his inquiries at Denver: and the result had been that Mr. Farron Saftleigh had repurchased of him the railroad bonds and the deeds of Donnowhair land, to the amount of five thousand dollars; which sum he inclosed in his own cheek payable to the order of Sylvia Argenter.
She was leaning with her elbow on the back of the sofa, and now she slipped her bright rings down her slim fingers and shook them back again as she looked up at Burke and spoke to him as she would have done to a servant. "Mr. Farron cannot see you." Cleverer people than Burke had struggled vainly against the poison of inferiority which this tone instilled into their minds.
"I think it would be hard to put the fear of God into that young man," she said aloud. "I do wish Mr. Farron would try." "Try," thought Adelaide, "and fail?" Could she stand that? Was her whole relation to Vincent about to be put to the test? What weapons had he against Marty Burke? And if he had none, how stripped he would appear in her eyes! "Won't you ask him, Mrs. Farron?" Adelaide recoiled.
And a great deal of the manifold responsibility that Mr. Dakie Thayne undertakes, as broker or agent in the concerns of others, is undertaken with a deliberate ulterior design of this sort. I think Mr. Farron Saftleigh probably was made to pay about three thousand dollars of the sum he had wheedled Mrs. Argenter out of.
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