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It is quite possible that Count Storri will drop in!" "Madam," shouted Mr. Harley explosively, "I shall shoot that scoundrel Storri if he puts hand to my front gate!" "John!" screamed Mrs. Hanway-Harley. "Madam, I shall shoot him like a rat!" Mr. Harley got this off with such fury that it struck Mrs. Hanway-Harley speechless. She was the more amazed, since she knew nothing of either Mr.
Hanway-Harley, and that lady, being armored to the teeth, in the name of comfort had retired to her own apartments with a purpose to unloose what buttons and remove what pins and untie what strings stood between her and a great bodily relief.
Hanway-Harley said nothing to Dorothy of her interview with Richard; she appeared to believe that Richard had saved her that labor. There was a kind of sneer in this. Feeling the sneer, Dorothy put no questions; she was willing, in her resentment, to have it understood that Richard had told her. Why should he not? she who was to be his wife!
After thirty minutes of triumph, Mr. Harley, mightily restored in his own graces, arose to depart. "And for a last word, you scoundrel," quoth the loud Mr. Harley, "I told Mrs. Hanway-Harley I would shoot you if you so much as laid hand to my front gate. You might do well to remember that promise; I have been known on occasion to tell Mrs. Hanway-Harley the truth."
Harley not the faintest call for all this elaboration of deceit. Mrs. Hanway-Harley would not have uttered a whisper of objection had he openly declared for an absence of a fortnight, with the design of playing poker, nothing but poker, every moment of the time.
He decided that the superiority of Dorothy was due to the father, and gave that absent gentleman a world of credit without waiting to make his acquaintance. Mrs. Hanway-Harley said that she lived in Washington. Where did Mr. Storms live? "My home has been nowhere for ten years," returned Richard.
Hanway-Harley would only say that churches were the conventional thing and studies were not. Richard capitulated; indeed he gave way instantly and at the earliest suggestion of "church." His surrender, made with the utmost humility, did not prevent both Bess and Mrs. Hanway-Harley from demonstrating their position in full. "When all is said," declared Richard, "the main thing is the wedding."
"Child," said she, when Storri was gone, "you should never try to entertain one gentleman by telling him about another; it only makes him furious." "I didn't, mamma," said Dorothy, her eyes innocently round. "You did, only you failed to notice it," returned Mrs. Hanway-Harley. "After this, be more upon your guard."
John Harley made no secret of Senator Hanway's Presidential prospects, and if he did not talk them over with his helpmeet, he listened while she talked them over with him. Mrs. Hanway-Harley, who insisted more vigorously than ever upon the hyphenation, would of necessity preside over the White House. She saw and said this herself. The Harley family would move to the White House.
"Why, I thought you were all in bed, Barbara," said Senator Hanway, by way of opening conversation. Mrs. Hanway-Harley, as calmly as she might, told of Dorothy's "mad infatuation." She held back nothing except what portions of the tangle referred to Storri. That nobleman's proposals she did not touch on.
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