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Trapes had gone down-stairs, very silent and with head a-droop, then, slow and heavily, turned and opened his door, but paused to speak over his shoulder in a hoarse whisper. "Geoff if ever any man made my sister go through what Maggie Finlay went through I'd shoot him dead by God in Heaven, I would!" It was a week later, and Mr.
If you two don't stop chewin' d' rag an' get busy you'll be too late for this bird, because this bird is sure a bird of passage and Holy Gee!" he broke off, as a knock sounded on the outer door, "who's this, I wonder?" Before he could rise, Hermione had vanished into the passage. "Say, Geoff," he whispered, "how if it's Bud?"
It was only the return of the servants to clear the table, and the old butler's question, "What's the matter, Master Geoff?" that roused him. The butler's tone was far too sympathetic. He was an old servant, and the only one in the house who did not call poor little Geoff My lord. But the boy was not going to accept sympathy. He sprang up from the table with a "Nothing's the matter.
"I don't think papa can be coming, Geoff, and it is time you had your tea." "Never mind me. I'll go and take it by myself, if you want me to, and you can wait here." "Why?" she said. "It will not bring him home a moment sooner, as you and I know." "No, but it feels as if it made him come; and you can see as far as the gate. It takes a long time to drive up the avenue.
We have all been out of sorts, Geoff quite down in the mouth, little Geoff not at all contented with me as a mother; even Euphane has worn a long face and exhibited a tendency to revert to the Isle of Man, which she never showed so long as you were to the fore. As for me, I have felt like a person with one lung, or half a head, all broken up, and unlike myself.
The young engineer leaped to his feet as the clatter ceased in a harsh scraping thud, and with Gentleman Geoff beside him, he crossed the patio and re-entered the gambling-room. The voices had hushed as if by magic, and every motionless figure was turned toward the entrance door.
"Know the place, do ye?" "I've looked it over. We can get in behind the annex, can't we?" "In?" repeated the Spider, smiling grimly. "Oh, we'll get in all right; what gets my goat is how we're goin' t' get out again. You sure are a bird for takin' chances, Geoff." "Life is made up of chances, Spider, and there are two kinds of men those who take them joyfully and those who don't."
I was neither shy nor frightened for myself, but I felt the responsibility of the boys painfully. Supposing some harm happened to them, supposing they got run over or lost supposing even that it was so late when we got home that we had been missed and that Uncle Geoff and Mrs. Partridge were to scold us fearfully I should feel, I knew I should that it had been all my fault.
Thode leaned forward, a sudden exclamation half halted on his lips. Gentleman Geoff nodded slowly. "Name Rendell," he said. "Class of '84. I haven't mentioned it this quarter of a century and I'm going to ask you to forget it now, but you'll do what you can for my girl?" "On my honor, Sir," Thode reaffirmed solemnly. "It is a sacred charge."
"Help her why, y' see, Geoff, I I ain't in a steady job yet. But I do my best an' why, there's d' kettle boilin' at last!" saying which, Spike turned and vanished again, leaving Mr. Ravenslee still staring down at the pictured face.
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