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But he was very kind and praised everything I did and yesterday he told me that he thought I deserved a reward and as he might be called away again the same way, he didn't think it was fair to put so much more upon me without paying me for it." "Isn't he lovely!" exclaimed Isabella. "As Delia says about Mrs. Fenlow's chauffeur, 'he's sure very gentlemanly and strong!"
"That man has the luck of the Irish army!" declared Mrs. Fenlow. "Did you notice that he was the only one to escape without any injury, though the cause of it was evidently his reckless driving? That's the way things always happen with him. He gets his pleasure and other people take the consequences." Mrs. Fenlow's tone was so sharp and bitter that Henrietta looked at her in surprise.
Brand," thought his secretary, looking in puzzled wonder at the door into his room, "for there's surely nobody else in there." As she gazed, held by her surprise, a letter in her hands, the wrathful voices rose again, now one, then the other, and in Mrs. Fenlow's she presently caught the words, "Hugh Gordon."
Henrietta had found him a debonair youth, full of gay humor and high spirits and having, apparently, much of the same kind of good-heartedness and sincerity which she admired in his mother. "Have you seen the morning paper?" was Mrs. Fenlow's first remark, as Henrietta settled into her seat. "You mean the accident Mr. Brand had with his automobile? Didn't they have a fortunate escape!"
Brand without delay and if he isn't here yet I'll wait for him." Miss Marne, busy at her desk with the morning's mail, heard sounds from her employer's private room during Mrs. Fenlow's call that betokened a change in the friendly relations formerly existing between them. She could hear the woman's voice raised in what seemed to be bitter denunciation and the man's replying in sneering tones.
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