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And that Bill Goss is a sneak, too, and worse," and Martin Harris shook his head decidedly. "Well, we can't talk about those people now," said Dick. "We're in a mess and must get out of it the best way we can. As you are an old boatman, what would you advise us to do?" "Come ashore with me and then get Dan Haskett to take your boat in charge and fix her up.
He was sure she would not have seen Haskett that first day if she had divined that Waythorn would object, and the fact that she did not divine it was almost as disagreeable to the latter as the discovery that she had lied to him. "I don't like the woman," Haskett was repeating with mild persistency. "She ain't straight, Mr. Waythorn she'll teach the child to be underhand.
Waythorn had felt miserably sure that he would not. But the governess was dismissed, and from time to time the little man demanded an interview with Alice. After the first outburst she accepted the situation with her usual adaptability. Haskett had once reminded Waythorn of the piano-tuner, and Mrs. Waythorn, after a month or two, appeared to class him with that domestic familiar.
The three men stood awkwardly before her, till Varick, always the most self-possessed, dashed into an explanatory phrase. "We I had to see Waythorn a moment on business," he stammered, brick-red from chin to nape. Haskett stepped forward with his air of mild obstinacy. "I am sorry to intrude; but you appointed five o'clock " he directed his resigned glance to the time-piece on the mantel.
Had Haskett ever given her any trinkets and what had become of them, Waythorn wondered? He realized suddenly that he knew very little of Haskett's past or present situation; but from the man's appearance and manner of speech he could reconstruct with curious precision the surroundings of Alice's first marriage.
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