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Kenny drove him to the Finlake station. "This car has been a godsend," he said. "And Garry's wired me to keep it. He's going to the coast." "When?" "Thursday." Kenny's eyes were moist and grateful. "Ah, Frank, darlin', you're a jewel!" "Piffle!" countered Frank. "Kenny, old dear, I think you hit a chicken. If at any time," he added at the station, "you feel the need of me, I want you to wire.
And Garret Devereau dropped out of the world for a long time. "It was a year before he came back. People had already begun to talk about the way his father had gone before him he shot himself, Mr. O'Mara, when he became tired of waiting for Garry's mother to return and when Garry reappeared they talked more.
"Not accidentally, but by a blow inflicted by someone," returned the doctor. "What do you chaps know about this?" he asked, turning suddenly on the three boys. Garry opened his mouth to answer. "We " "Wait till I get through talking before you are spoken to. What are you chaps, runaways, and where did you get those clothes, steal 'em?" A dark flush crept up under Garry's ears.
Everybody was talking about him; he had Garry's word for it. He couldn't work. When he could he was summoned for jury duty. His accounts, like the studio, were in a mess and he'd overdrawn. If something didn't happen soon "Shut up!" said Garry. "How on earth do you suppose that I can work with you talking all over the studio?
With rifle poised he edged forward a step and halted; he stooped and laid Garry's gun at the foot of a tree and went on again. Once he made out a movement behind a nearer tangle and saw the branches shake before a heavy body that was forcing slowly through them. His own rifle came up; his finger was on the trigger when he thought better of it.
"Come," Kenny begged one night when the dusk lay thick in the valley. "Let's pace the Gray Man, Joan, in Garry's car. Nobody needs you now as much as I." His bright dark face pleaded. The girl smiled. "Kenny, Kenny, Kenny," she said, "will you ever grow up?" "Did Peter Pan? Better get your cloak, dear. You may need it." He went off whistling to the barn.
Times without number there were when Garry's monumental fit of sulks bordered close on the ridiculous, but the needed triviality which would have precipitated the whole fabric to a terra-firma of absurdity failed to materialize. He cursed the rain, cursed it with his fluent precision which already had earned Fat Joe's admiring comment.
Garry's eyes swept the car, and in a moment he had located the two fur dealers, who had spoken of the cheap furs to be bought near the border. "Do you see the two men who are in the fourth seat from the front of the car, facing us and playing cards?" he asked. Casually, and without attracting any notice, Fernald studied the faces of the two men.
It was when he held Ruth in his arms that same afternoon behind the door, really, she couldn't wait until they reached the room, that Jack whispered in her astonished and delighted ears the good news of the expected check from Garry's committee. "And daddy won't lose anything; and he can take the new work!" she cried joyously. "And we can all go up to the mountains together!
The obligation had really increased, because Garry could no longer fight his battles himself; nor was there a moment to lose. The slightest spark of suspicion would kindle a flame of inquiry, and the roar of an investigation would follow. McGowan had already voiced his own distrust of Garry's methods. No matter what the cost, this money must be found before Monday night.
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