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I forgot about the meeting, and there is to be choir practice afterwards, so I'm engaged for Friday evening as well. How shall we arrange it?" and Edith looked inquiringly around the group. "Put it to vote," and Frank Fenerty rose to his feet. "Hands up now for to-morrow night at Miss Sherwood's or not there at all, is that it?"
"Man alive! do you think a man's appetite can survive everything?" said Traverse, with a frown. "Forgive me, Traverse! I did not mean to add to your feelings. I don't wonder you feel cut up," said Fenerty, whispering his apologies. "Mr. Fenerty, take him out in the dining-room. My presence has prevented him from partaking of the refreshments I brought him.
Fenerty, as, seated in Guy Traverse's office, he watched Guy bend over the papers on the desk before him, yet seeming to accomplish nothing. Getting no response to his repeated sallies, he added: "What's up! out with it! If that pile of papers is in a tangle, say the word, and I'll bring my mighty brain to bear on them, and set them in order for you in no time! No?
"We have to buy the material before we can meet to make it up," Edith replied. "Great Scott! how much material do you want to buy anyhow," said Fenerty. "I could buy out a store while you ladies were selecting the ribbons for your neck." While they were speaking, Mr.
Fingers and needles were soon busy again, and the unfinished badges were attacked with renewed vigor. "That was a nasty trick of Miss Gussie's, Traverse," young Fenerty was saying, as he waited upon his friend in the dining-room, "but I am sure she never suspected that the letter belonged to you." "What difference did that make? The act was unpardonable when she knew it was not her own property.
Dexie cast a backward look at Traverse and saw his amused smile, and it was hard to control her features when his face assumed such a mournful expression directly Fenerty addressed him. Half an hour later, tables and chairs were set aside, and the sound that came forth from the piano, at Dexie's bidding, set agoing the feet of the dancers.
"Capital legislation! Now announce the place of meeting and the matter is settled," and Frank Fenerty joined the group around the table. "Better set the time and place of meeting without delay, for when you ladies begin to realize the amount of work which the making of these badges involves, you will each and all remember that you have a pressing engagement somewhere else."
"I am as much in the dark as yourself, Fenerty. I own that I hoped to win her myself, and I feel the disappointment keenly." "Traverse, I hope you will not think me a meddling fool; but I would like to know if it is all up with the other one she of the letter, I mean. You might tell a fellow that much." Traverse looked at him keenly.
Are the men going out on a strike, then? or is your great-grandma down with the measles? Then, for Heaven's sake, why such a doleful expression? It is enough to give one the blues to look at you!" and he re-crossed his legs and looked searchingly at his friend. "That's all your nonsense, Fenerty! I'm all right!
What's the news?" and Traverse leaned back in his chair as if to resign himself to the inevitable. "News! he asks for news, when I have come here expecting to find him boiling over with anxiety to impart news to someone!" and Fenerty rolled up his eyes in astonishment.
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