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For that reason, she must always regard it as her enemy, must, indeed, hate it with an intensity beyond words with an intensity equal to that she bore the man, Gilder.
And it's my business to know how things ring in that way." There was a little pause, while the lawyer moved back and forth nervously. Then, he added: "I believe Lawlor would have suspended sentence if it hadn't been for your talk with him." There were not wanting signs that Gilder was impressed. But the gentler fibers of the man were atrophied by the habits of a lifetime.
But Monny took her from me, as if she had bought the right to use my childhood's friend whenever it suddenly occurred to her to want a chaperon. Instead of Biddy, I got Cleopatra. And by this time, so far as we knew, all tourists save ourselves had gone. I knew in my heart that, in accusing Monny Gilder of claiming Brigit O'Neill because she was paying her expenses, I did the girl an injustice.
He turned his gaze to Garson again, and spoke authoritatively: "Come on now, Joe!" Garson went a step toward the desk, and spoke decisively. "If I come through, you'll let her go and him?" he added as an afterthought, with a nod toward Dick Gilder. "Oh, Joe, don't!" Mary cried, bitterly. "We'll spend every dollar we can raise to save you!" "Now, it's no use," the Inspector complained.
"Ay, ay, sir," responded the lieutenant. "I shall not want you now," continued the man on the steamer. "How is that?" demanded Christy, as though this was an entirely unexpected reply. "I have concluded to make my way out through the sound, Gilder." "Then my name is Gilder," added Christy, in a low tone.
Their attention was concentrated on Mrs. Jones and on the lady who, according to their belief, was but posing as Miss Gilder. Apparently they imagined her to be quite another person, one whom they had taken a great deal of trouble to reach. Also they had an idea that Mrs. Jones possessed something of which they were anxious to get hold.
What fun we've had! I never had any fun before. I hardly knew the meaning of the word." "I suppose it must have amused you and Miss Gilder," I planted my arrow at last, though not remorselessly, "this quaint idea that's got round, about your having changed places." Rachel's face crimsoned. "Oh, Lord Ernest!" she sighed in an explosive whisper, with a glance round to see if any one were near.
I said I would tell you how to stop the stealing. Well, I have done it. Give the girls a fair chance to be honest. You asked me for the names, Mr. Gilder. There's only one name on which to put the blame for the whole business and that name is Edward Gilder!... Now, won't you do something about it?"
Gilder cleared his throat twice in an embarrassment foreign to him, before finally he spoke to the girl. At last, the proprietor of the store expressed himself in a voice of genuine sympathy, for the spectacle of wo presented there before his very eyes moved him to a real distress, since it was indeed actual, something that did not depend on an appreciation to be developed out of imagination.
Under the urgency of emotion, color crept into the pallid cheeks, and now her face was very beautiful so beautiful, indeed, that for a little the charm of its loveliness caught the man's gaze, and he watched her with a new respect, born of appreciation for her feminine delightfulness. The impression was far too brief. Gilder was not given to esthetic raptures over women.
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