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After thinking it all over, he sent for Covington, and as the younger man entered he handed him the communication. "Have you seen this before?" Gorham asked. "Yes; Litchfield just showed it to me." "What does it mean?" "Compromise, I hope," Covington replied. "Nothing else can prevent a great calamity to the Companies. I am even more certain of this now than before."
Gorham, but one that seems pretty good to me is that I don't think I'm fitted for it." "Why not?" "I'm too optimistic, I think, to make a good diplomat. If a man's a gentleman, and treats me square, I'm apt to think he's all right and, from what I hear, in diplomacy the one who fools the others the most times is the best fellow. Isn't that right?"
Gorham brought with her a breath from the outside world for which they longed. She entertained them with stories of her travels, of her daughter's experiences at boarding-school and her son Tom's escapades at college. She praised Claribel's embroidery and Wilma's little water-colour sketches, and she left without discovering all the ravages time had wrought in beautiful old Marchmont.
"But you must have some reason for it," she urged. "I have I don't want to spend my life in other countries. Little old New York is good enough for me. I have lots of friends there, and that's where I'd like to settle down." "New York is a hard place for a young man to start his career," said Mrs. Gorham. "You will find there an absolute intolerance for the man in the making.
But Gorham was still talking in the same low, quiet voice.
Alice leaned forward mischievously. "Did you get your degree cum laude, Allen?" "Not exactly," he answered, frankly. "Cum difficultate would be more like it; but I got it, anyhow." "And what have you been doing since?" Mrs. Gorham asked. "I went abroad right after Commencement." "To perfect yourself in the languages?"
Of course, in the beginning, it was necessary to make the statements strong in order to be convincing, but there was no 'covenant, as you call it, and the people are not in a position to exact an equal division unless we choose to give it to them." "Can it be that I understand you correctly?" Gorham demanded, with mingled indignation and amazement.
I don't never cal'late to be out o' pulpits, but I'm so plagued for room I can't keep 'em in here with the groc'ries. Pike. Shall I bring one of 'em in? "At that the boys all bust out laughin' an' hollerin' an' tauntin' the Gorham man, an' he paid up with a good will, I tell ye!" "I don't approve of bettin'," said Mrs.
Puzzled by her apathy, and much disappointed in her temper, he took off the dress, and, climbing up in front, rode to Moderation, where he received an urgent invitation to go over to the county fair at Gorham. The last idea was always the most captivating to Pel, and he departed serenely for a stay of several days without so much luggage as a hairbrush.
The fires of truth and love and faith and honor, which burned so brightly before him, at least touched him with their heat. God pity him! "It is all over, Mr. Gorham," he forced himself to say. "It is not you who have defeated me, it is I who have defeated myself. I offer no defence. I despised myself before I did this, I despise myself still further for having done it.
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