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As he did so he faced Ferdy Wickersham, who bowed coldly. The old gentleman stiffened, put his hand behind his back, and with uplifted head looked him full in the eyes for a second, and then turned his back on him. "I beg your pardon, Mr. Stirling, for declining to recognize any one whom you are good enough to wish to introduce to me, but that man I must decline to recognize.
"Neither," said Keith. "You know, Ferdy always was in love with her?" This with a glance to obtain Keith's views. "No; I know nothing about it." "Yes; always," she nodded oracularly. "Of course, he is making love to Alice Lancaster, too, and to the new governess at the Wentworths'." "Who is that?" asked Keith, moved by some sudden instinct to inquire.
"Yes; Ferdy said something, and Keith took it up. He seems pretty fond of you. I think he had it in for Ferdy, for Ferdy had been bedevilling him about the place. You know old Wickersham owns it. Ferdy's strong point is not taste. So I think Gordon was feeling a bit sore, and when Ferdy lit into you, Keith slapped him." Norman was all alert now. "Well? Which licked?" "Oh, that was all.
Maybe you remember Ferdy, who had the nerve to marry Marjorie Ellins, the heavyweight sister of Mr. Robert's, here a few years back? Well, that was when the Ellinses acquired a brunette member of the flock. Ambrose is a full brother of Ferdy's. In every sense. That is, he was in the good old days when Mr. Volstead was only a name towards the end of roll call.
You have no right to go around here making women fall in love with you as you do," she said, with that pretended reproof which is a real encouragement. "One might suppose I was like David, who slew his tens of thousands," answered Ferdy. "Which of my victims are you attempting to rescue?" "You know?" As Ferdy shook his head, she explained further.
Win I felt he would, though all the ladies of the Casino ballet came out to tell him not to; and when old Dobbin, my own particular turn-out, condescended to move again, I pushed on for Belfort, no longer deluding myself that I was to be within a hundred miles of the winner, but hoping that I should get to Vienna in time to shake "Ferdy" by the hand and to tell him what a fool he had been.
She was grasping at straws. "And Ferdy Wickersham has spent it in Wall Street." "What! No, he has not! There, at least, you do him an injustice. What he has got from me he has invested securely. I have all the papers at least, some of them." "How has he invested it?" "Partly in a mine called the 'Great Gun Mine, in New Leeds. Partly in Colorado. I can help Norman with it."
These moments, however, were rare, and were generally those that followed some evening of even greater conviviality than usual, or some report that the stocks he had gotten Ferdy Wickersham to buy for him had unexpectedly gone down, so that he must make up his margins. When the margins had been made up and the stocks had reacted, Mr. Rimmon was sufficiently well satisfied with his own lot.
Rimmon, who, while Keith was speaking, had been forming his reply. Keith flushed. "Why, you have not answered me at all. If you have, you can certainly have no objection to doing me the favor of repeating it. Will you do me the favor to repeat it? Did you or did you not marry Ferdy Wickersham to a young girl about three years ago?"
A little later, Keith went over to where Mrs. Lancaster stood. Several men were about her, and just after Keith Joined her, another man walked up, if any movement so lazy and sauntering could be termed walking. "I have been wondering why I did not see you," he drawled as he came up. Keith recognized the voice of Ferdy Wickersham. He turned and faced him; but if Mr.
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