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She had sung and danced and flirted as even Gloria Gaynor had never done before; she had made Gratton sure of her and his eyes had smouldered and his chalky pale face had flushed; she had sent him off, gnawing at his nails; she had made other young laughter rise like echoes of her own; she had sighed and sat long hours at her window, wondering, wondering, wondering.
Then she crouched, staring with wide, unseeing eyes into the outside dark. The man would go right away; she would not have even him to mitigate the horrible condition of aloneness with Gratton. "I won't marry him!" she cried out. "I won't. I hate him. He is a beast, and I won't!" There was, after all, nothing to force her.
"Gratton promised me a hundred dollars," muttered the "judge." "And he cleared out without taking the trouble to pay me." King's face cleared. His cheque for a hundred dollars decided the "judge." "That's a might of money to pay the old duffer for one night's work, Mark," muttered Jim. "Strikes me that way, anyhow." A might of money! King laughed.
Gratton put out his hand as though to help her down the last step. She made a little gesture, motioning him back. He bit at his lip and obeyed, though with a quick flash of the eyes. Gloria looked down at the step. About six inches high, and yet and yet where she stood was as high as heaven, down there as deep as hell. She seemed powerless to achieve that last step.
And to Summerling: "I am ready." "But I ain't!" cried Spalding. He got to the door and started down the hall. "Wait a minute, will you?" Gratton hurried after him, his face hot with rage, while Steve Jarrold guffawed loudly and then, under Gloria's startled look, dropped his eyes. "Come back here, Spalding," commanded Gratton angrily. "Whatever you've got to do can wait a minute "
And let that word be that nothing on earth will stop you! Then I won't go crazy here with worry. And watch out for Gratton as well as Brodie. A bit of the old interest swept back over King as he read; the old excitement raced through his blood. He dropped Ben's note into the stove and eagerly took up the old Bible.
Something in his voice impelled Eldon Parr to shoot a glance at his profile. "Poverty is inevitable, Mr. Hodder," he declared. "The weak always sink." Hodder's reply, whatever it might have been, was prevented by the sudden and unceremonious flight of both occupants toward the ceiling of the limousine, caused by a deep pit in the asphalt. "What are you doing, Gratton?" Mr.
You and I enter into a pact right now, purely business, you understand." He was speaking more and more rapidly in the grip of a new emotion. "Whatever we find we divide, fifty-fifty; " King's sudden laughter, no pleasant sound in Gratton's ears, checked the rush of words. To accept Gratton as a partner on a fifty-fifty split of the spoils! Was the man crazy?
The house door stood open as Gratton had left it, and the two entered hastily. Jim looked from face to face with keen, shrewd eyes, ignored Jarrold, who said a mirthful "Evenin', Jim," and turned to Gloria for explanation. "Miss Gloria wanted " began Gratton. But Jim Spalding lifted a big hand as though to ward off the words. "I'm here, miss," he said when Gloria's white face only stared at him."
She sprang up filled with stubborn, confident determination. He was hers and she would not let him die. She had learned to fight; she had fought against Gratton, against Brodie; she would fight as she had never done until now against death itself. He was big and she little, yet she dragged his bed close to his side and got her arms about him and lifted him enough to get him upon the blankets.
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