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He pushed him gently into his chair. The Colonel was rousing himself. He stepped to the telephone and called up Father Honoré. "Father Honoré "This is Colonel Caukins. Can you tell me if there is any truth in the report that Champney Googe has returned to-day? "Thank God." He put up the receiver, but still remained standing.
She put her fingers in her ears to shut out further sound of it, and ran down the hall to the back passageway, closed the door behind her and stood there trembling from nervousness. Had Mrs. Googe obtained some inkling that she had a message to deliver from that son? a message she neither could nor would deliver? Did Champney Googe's mother know that she had seen that son in the quarry woods? Mrs.
He, too, felt relieved, and spoke more freely: "I said I want you to make good that eighty thousand dollars " "Don't be a fool, Octavius Buzzby," she broke in upon him coldly, a world of scornful pity in her voice, "you mean well, but you're a fool to think that at my time of life I'm going to impoverish myself and my estate for Champney Googe. You've had your pains for nothing.
They seemed to proceed from the vicinity of the dining-room door. "Where's Rag?" said Aileen, listening intently to the muffled sounds. "I shut him up in the dining-room closet when I see you come up the walk; he goes just wild to get with you any chance he can, and Mrs. Googe told me she wanted to keep him round the house nights."
Poor soul poor soul" she wiped the tears that were rolling down her cheeks, "here I am the mother of eight children and never had to lose a night's sleep on account of their not doing right, and here's Aurora with her one and can't sleep nor eat for the shame and trouble he's brought on her and all of us for I'm a Googe.
The priest, after closing the door, went to the pine table and opening a drawer took out a letter. It bore a recent date. It was from the chaplain of the prison and informed him there was a strong prospect of release for Champney Googe at least three months before the end of his term. Father Honoré smiled to himself. He refolded it and laid it in the drawer.
His anger was roused to white heat and he dared not trust himself to say more. She laughed out loud the forced, mocking laugh of a miserable old age. "I knew from the first Aurora Googe was at the bottom of this " "She doesn't know anything about this, I came of "
Aileen kept her secret, and all the more closely because she was realizing that Champney Googe was far from indifferent to her. At first, the knowledge of the miracle of love, that was wrought so suddenly as she thought, sufficed to fill her heart with continual joy. But, shortly, that was modified by the awakening longing that Champney should return her love.
"He's O.K. and a man, mother," was his comment on their guest, as he bade her good night. Aurora Googe answered him with a smile that betokened content, but she was wise enough not to commit herself in words. Afterwards she sat long in her room, planning for her son's future. The twenty thousand she had just received for the undeveloped quarry lands should serve to start him well in life.
Before she could answer, Rag, the Irish terrier, who had been nosing disconsolately about on the barren rock, suddenly lost his head. With one short suppressed yelp, he laid his heels low to the slippery granite shelves and scuttled, scurried, scrambled, tore across the intervening quarry hollow like a bundle of brown tow driven before a hurricane. Mrs. Googe laughed.
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