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I can run trains, but I can't engineer social functions. You'll have to be spokesman. I suppose jobs and increased salaries and preferments, and all that, don't count for much with a young fellow who is engaged to the fabulous Miss Garavel, but with the Runnels family it's different. Meanwhile, let's just hold our thumbs till our promotions are ratified from headquarters.
We heard them all about, everywhere." She placed her little hand in Kirk's, then checked her father's remonstrance, saying: "Oh, it is quite proper for us to walk home together, even in the dark; we are married now, you know." "Come on, Garavel," exclaimed Darwin K. Anthony. "You understand how it is."
She settled uncertainly beside him like a butterfly just alighting, ready to take flight again, on the instant. "Perhaps I can help you to find your way, senor?" she said, with ingenuous politeness. "You are the only one who can, Miss Garavel. I don't know that I ever told you, but I'm in love." "Indeed?"
Suppose I should get lost some day tomorrow, for instance?" "No, no! Listen. It is the warning bell, and we must return." The crowd was filing into the theatre now. They fell in behind Senor Garavel and Mrs. Cortlandt. "I'm going hunting again tomorrow," prophesied Kirk, "and I'm almost certain to lose my way-about three o'clock." "You should take with you a guide." "That's not a bad idea.
I'm glad to hear that." "It's all settled, I believe. This dance is a big special event. The American Minister and the various diplomatic gangs will be there, besides the prominent Spanish people. It's precisely the moment to launch the Garavel boom, and Cortlandt intends to do it. After it's over, our little crowd will have supper and thank him for what he has done for us.
Kirk wandered about through the confusion, nodding to his friends, chatting here and there, his eyes fixed anxiously upon the door. Clifford approached and fell into conversation with him. "Great doings, eh? I came up from the Central just to see what these affairs are like. Did you see to-night's paper?" "No." "Garavel is going to run for President. This is a kind of political coming-out party."
He loves the Garavel girl, and wants to marry her." "I know all that. I overheard you in the parlor below." "Listen, please! I don't remember what I said then, and it doesn't matter; you took too much for granted. We must talk plainly now, before" she pressed her palms to her temples as if they were bursting "before it becomes impossible. I never lied to you, Stephen. Is that true?"
Kirk looked the speaker squarely in the eyes as he answered: "I don't understand what you're driving at. I haven't the least interest in any married man's affairs never have had, in fact. I'm in love with Gertrudis Garavel, and I'm engaged to marry her." "The devil!" "It's a fact. I didn't know until last night that I'd been accepted." "Then just forget what I said.
Kirk tried to assure his caller that he would have no trouble in proving his innocence, but Garavel seemed very little concerned with that phase of the affair, and continued to bewail the dishonor that had fallen upon his name. Kirk's pride arose at this, and he exclaimed with some heat: "My dear Mr. Garavel, if you are so blamed sure that I did all these things, why did you come to see me?"
But how the moments dragged! General Alfarez entered the room amid a buzz of comment. Then, as he greeted his rival, Garavel, with a smile and a handshake, a round of applause broke forth. The members of the Commission sought them both out, and congratulations were exchanged. At last the Garavel boom was launched in earnest. Mrs. Cortlandt expressed a desire to sit out the fourth dance.
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