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"And I may tell you that you have subjected Miss Fenimer to a good deal of disagreeable gossip by your apparently caring so little." "And others by apparently caring so much," said Max. Christine was the only one who recognized at once the fact that both men were angry; and she did not pour oil on the waters by laughing gaily.
Riatt watched as if she were some great spectacle, and was recalled only by hearing Dorothy's voice saying: "What a lovely creature!" "That is Miss Fenimer." A sudden and deep flush spread over Miss Lane's face. "And you have been telling me of your indifference to her?" she asked bitterly. "How could any man be indifferent!" "Good Heavens," cried Riatt fiercely. "All you women are alike!
But I suppose we must let Miss Fenimer settle the question." Christine smiled like an angel. "Can't we have a nice time as we are?" she asked. This frivolous reply was properly ignored by both men, and Riatt went on: "Don't you think you ought to consider the fact that Miss Fenimer and I are engaged?" "Miss Fenimer assures me she does not intend to marry you."
"I have five hundred acres myself, and then the Club owns a huge tract, and then there's some state land. You see we have hardly any neighbors except the Fenimers and they're eight or nine miles away." "They live here?" "In summer and then only when Fred Fenimer is in funds, and that's not often. A precarious sort of existence, his gambling in mining stocks, almost always in wrong.
How selfish I am," answered Miss Fenimer. "The point is this. In view of the gossip and talk, and your own dear little suggestion, darling, that I had frightened the horse on purpose, Mr. Riatt has thought it necessary to ask me to marry him. I say he has thought it necessary, because in spite of all his flattering protestations, I can't help feeling that he's done it from a sense of duty.
"Engaged a kitchen-maid, I see," he said in a low tone to Christine. "I think it's so good for people to do something useful now and then, don't you?" "A form of education that you offer almost every one who comes near you." Hickson did not hear everything, but he caught the idea, and said severely: "I don't suppose any one would ask Miss Fenimer to wash dirty dishes."
He consoled himself, however, by the thought that train-time was drawing near, "and then, please heaven," he said to himself, "I need never see any of them again." "Isn't it strange," began Miss Fenimer, and then as a servant appeared in the doorway: "Oh, will you please ask Mrs. Almar to come here for a few minutes and speak to me. Tell her it is very important.
Riatt," said Linburne, with a politeness that only accentuated his irritation, "in suggesting that as your visit is, I believe, unexpected, and as mine is an appointment of some standing, that you will go away and let me finish my conversation with Miss Fenimer." Max smiled. "Oddly enough," he said, "I was about to make the same request to you.
"I will then," she answered, and sitting down she wrote: "This is to certify that I, Christine Fenimer, have speciously, feloniously and dishonorably induced Mr. Max Riatt to make me an offer of marriage, which I knew at the time he had no wish to fulfil, and I hereby solemnly vow and swear to release him from same on or before the first day of March of this year of grace.
"I wonder," said Riatt, "what is the difference, if any, between a pirate and a bucaneer? Miss Fenimer and Mrs. Almar seem to me to have many qualities in common." "Oh, Max, how can you say that? Christine is so much more gentle and womanly, so much " "My dear Laura, we haven't very much time, and I think you said you wanted to talk to me on a business matter."
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